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HowlingMadMurdock

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:05 pm

Joined: Apr 18, 2013
Posts: 186
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Location: Ashington, Northumberland

This evening I hit a pothole on a country lane, it was quite a bump.

The STOP light came on in the speedo and the car ground to a halt.

It's a 2000 model 1.4LX.

I turned it over several times and whilst it turns it won't fire and the STOP light is on. It's been running like a dream up to this point.

Usual things were fine, plenty of fuel (I'd just put £15 in), oil level fine, no hiccups until I hit that pothole.

The nearside tyre was deflating as I left it, looks like a puncture so I'm expecting it to be flat when I get back to it. It has non-standard allows on so I can't see it having any kind of tyre pressure sensor on it.

It wasn't the worst pothole I've hit but it was a quite deep one.

I have a suspicion it's knocked out some kind of electrical item causing the STOP light to come on. It's a pre-plex model so no codes to display etc.

Any ideas as to a possible cause or common failures of this type?

I'm waiting to hear from my local garage to see if they can recover it and fix it this weekend (out of hours now sadly) and fortunately Tony will do it on the slate if need be but if there's an easy fix I'll go get it sorted myself.


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LeeThr

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:36 pm

Joined: Feb 24, 2010
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Location: North West Wales

Being prep plex it should have the emergency cut off button under the bonnet, chances are if you've had enough of a bang its triggered that and just needs resetting.

gogs_macaulay wrote:

LeeThr wrote:

One Hundred million bazillion gatrillion pink rupee's

Shut it u stupid little f**k, what's the point in posting in all my treads being such a c***? Least I can afford a gti180, and to get the cam belt done!

So apparently everyone knows my financial situation? If I wanted a 180 I would have bought a 180 simples Smile

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2000 - 206 2L HDi D-Turbo ECO - Cherry Red
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mattymj

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:42 pm

Joined: Feb 07, 2010
Posts: 729
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Location: Norfolk

Maybe a broken earth lead under the battery tray?!

HowlingMadMurdock

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:58 pm

Joined: Apr 18, 2013
Posts: 186
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Ashington, Northumberland

Thanks Lee, I'm onto that one and will have that checked out. The tyre is going down too so I'll get a lift up there tomorrow with the spare battery and a compressor and try my look.

Matty, all electrics seem fine. Everything works but it's like there's no fuel and the STOP light is constantly on. I'm hoping the STOP solenoid hasn't gone, I had that happen on a wagon but with that it was the start solenoid, they had start and stop solenoid on the old MAN 7.5 tonners. The start solenoid went so ironically you could could start the thing but you had to stall it to stop the engine


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Sim

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:21 pm

Joined: Jun 20, 2012
Posts: 1171
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Location: West Country

Like LeeThr said, it must be an emergency fuel-cut-off impact sensor.

Found from the internetz:

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The inertia fuel cut off switch is located on the nearside, between the suspension top mounting and the bulk head in the engine bay, it has either a black or red rubber top, looks similar to a top hat.

To reset it, you press the top down (rubber circular bit), if it has been activated, it should click slightly when you press it, the engine should then start when you try it again.

Haha it was MrWhite that during pugfest showed this to me on my year 2000 HDi pug, many thanks to him!

Good luck!


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HowlingMadMurdock

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2015 4:10 pm

Joined: Apr 18, 2013
Posts: 186
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Location: Ashington, Northumberland

Cheers Sim


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HowlingMadMurdock

Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2015 9:30 am

Joined: Apr 18, 2013
Posts: 186
Trade Rating: 0
Location: Ashington, Northumberland

Thanks guys. Got a lift back to the car with my mate who's a biker, pressed the fuel inertia switch, and she fired up instantly. My mate laughed like hell but said in all honesty he wouldn't have thought it. It's not just me this will happen to so hopefully people will be aware of this in future


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MrWhite

Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 11:50 am

Joined: Mar 23, 2014
Posts: 309
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Good to hear Mateys ^_^


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