Vauxhall Astra the car won't start
Variant: 1.5 CDTI
Model Year: 2004
Categories:
Running Rough, Starting & Power Loss
Hiya,
I wonder if anyone can shed some light for me please?
I bought the car in August and within a month I broke down - it turned out it was the fuel pressure regulator. so I changed that and it was working fine.
Shortly after, the same thing happened again. We got a replacement for the pressure valve and it still wasn't working. (did some testing) We changed the fuel pump and fuel sensor, still nothing. Had the ECU tested - all clear. Changed the camshaft sensor - still nothing.
The diagnostics code is just saying fuel rail pressure sensor circuit.
I've had 3 mechanics look at it (1 works at vauxhall, 1 works at volvo and the other has his own garage) and they are exhausted with it.
It's been off the road 6 weeks now and they've told me to put it in a garage is probably going to cost £500+ in labour alone. It may come to that but I just wondered if anyone had any ideas please?
Thanks
I wonder if anyone can shed some light for me please?
I bought the car in August and within a month I broke down - it turned out it was the fuel pressure regulator. so I changed that and it was working fine.
Shortly after, the same thing happened again. We got a replacement for the pressure valve and it still wasn't working. (did some testing) We changed the fuel pump and fuel sensor, still nothing. Had the ECU tested - all clear. Changed the camshaft sensor - still nothing.
The diagnostics code is just saying fuel rail pressure sensor circuit.
I've had 3 mechanics look at it (1 works at vauxhall, 1 works at volvo and the other has his own garage) and they are exhausted with it.
It's been off the road 6 weeks now and they've told me to put it in a garage is probably going to cost £500+ in labour alone. It may come to that but I just wondered if anyone had any ideas please?
Thanks
Posted: Jan 8, 2013 (11 years ago)
Have the injectors been tested ,it could be a faulty injector ,would try a return spill check first of all.
Posted Jan 8, 2013 (11 years ago)
Thanks for your suggested. Tested the injectors been told they are working fine :(
Posted Jan 10, 2013 (11 years ago)
Probably best to book it in to a good main dealer and explain in writing exactly what has been done and what parts have been replaced but to ask for 1hrs diagnostic and then to contact you for further authority and what they have done ,as basic fault code read takes a max of 10 mins,then fault trace from there they should have some clue as to the region the fault is in unless it,s something totally out of the normal box.
Posted Jan 11, 2013 (11 years ago)
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