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gazza82

Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:57 am

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Watch the cheaper diag tools .. they are written for OBD2/OBDII and this is a US spec .. in UK/Europe it's EOBD. If a car was sold in US it had to support OBD2 .. and as far as I am aware the 206 never went there **

And before 2001 there were no real rules .. so car manufacturers used what they want and modified it (Peugeot/Citroen hid a lot in the BSI!). Petrols were converted to EOBD first in late 2001/early 2002 and diesels a couple of years later so from 2004.

It's amazing what some diag tools will tell you .. I've tried a few on my 2002 1.4Hdi and the daughter's old 2001 CC, and I've had different results .. and totally unrelated to the problem. I ended up forking out over £250 on a Sealey unit designed for Peugeot/Citroen and Renault but even that struggles with some other cars even though it has several different standards built-in. (Can't read our Alfa for example!)

And it's not just cheap systems: the son's Clio broke down and the AA diagnostic said it was the "high pressure fuel pump" .. my Sealey pointed to the glow plug relay .. so I tried that first being the cheaper option .. and it was better. But in the end it was actually two dead glow plugs(!) ... and they were diagnosed using the old fashioned multimeter method. I don't know how much the AA paid for they system, but I bet it wasn't £250!

** You'd be hard pressed to get some US car drivers IN a 206! Wink


	Down to just the 1.4 HDi. Cayman Green 2.0i CC sold.

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