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the garage being 1.5 hours away, since the fiat garage in my town can't currently connect to my van (2011 Scudo 2.0l D). The connector of their fault finder is broken and they can't get replacment part.
the message just says 'Engine fault, repair needed'
or i could try going to peugeot/citroen (in my town) and seeing if they can see what it is. but last time i tried this (somewhere else) they could go down deep enough into the diagnosis to see what it really was.
ho hum. vehicles. thankfully i have mother-in-law's car to use in the meantime. but i need to get it fixed. no good carrying tools etc round in a dacia duster...
Get a cheapy code reader off Amazon or similar with next day delivery. Should be £20 tops. Read the code, Google it, ask on here if it's terminal.
Generally it's probably safe to drive but given the potential cost if it isn't, I'd check it myself first
ETA. It's a pug underneath so the other garage should be able to diagnose and fix it, as should any backstreet garage
Is it orange or red? I tend to think the former means you need to take action, the latter means stop whatever you are doing.
I think his van is blue.
I'd take it to A.N.Other garage that's a lot closer and get it diagnosed before driving 1.5hrs. A 2011 Fiat is hardly an exotic model and most garages should be able to plug it in.
Are you in tje AA?
Call them out and get them to look at the codes and give you a clue as to what the problem is
Failing that any indie garage witj a generic obd2 reader should get the gault number at least
Then Google those
Where are you? If anywhere near Grantham you can borrow my code reader, fairly posh one, probably not as good as the ones the garages have but pretty decent
As above, Orange warnings can normally be driven, red warnings mean stop ASAP i.e the next safe place.
I wouldn't dream of taking a 10 yr old van to a main dealer unless there was a specific reason such as recall or specialist stuff, just take it to an independent garage.
My van's had the fault light on for more than a year now 🙂
thanks everyone. i'm in france...
i only take it to fiat because the slightly more generic code readers that non-fiat garages have, have not been able to read the fault in enough depth to know what actually needs done in the past.
eg last time the peugeot garage, with their pro level bosch machine, could tell me there was a problem with the particulate filter, but not what needed changed. only at fiat garage could they tell me it was the pump in the Celine (in english? - the liquid which gets burned to clean the filter) tank which was knackered.
but yes on relflection i think i'll take it to a place i trust for most stuff, and see what their reader says.
yes my van is blue, (wtf? how did you know : ) )
light is orange for now
I drove my T5 round for weeks with an orange engine light displayed. It turned out to be a cracked intercooler. I found this out after having the MAF sensor replaced, doh!
eg last time the peugeot garage, with their pro level bosch machine, could tell me there was a problem with the particulate filter, but not what needed changed. only at fiat garage could they tell me it was the pump in the Celine (in english? – the liquid which gets burned to clean the filter) tank which was knackered.
From my own personal DPF replacement fun, that diagnosis probably didn’t come from Fiats machine
by which you mean they just said 'sod it, change the whole thing'?
i don't think so, not from the way it went. the other garage said "DPF, dunno what, go to fiat", fiat said " pump in the reservoir is knackered"
seemed pretty clear that their system told them specifically what it was.
Normally they will be able to read the same code, it's just that a different garage may not have the manufacturer specific knowledge to decifer the code. That said, given the van is a Peugeot jumpy, I'm somewhat surprised their garage couldn't figure it out
I had an orange engine warning light pop up, got a code reader and was able to identify it was an issue with the MAF sensor, which wouldn't cause major short-term issues if driven.
Worth doing IMHO.
This is some useless information, but still. My car has had the orange engine warning light on for about 4 years now. The garage log in and turn it off for its MOT and it comes back on when I drive away. Still drives fine.
single07
Free Memberby which you mean they just said ‘sod it, change the whole thing’?
Nope, the main dealer in question went through the more likely options first. A more/most likely option in your case might be that the pumps are known to go. In mine it was expected to be the sensor at fault, but it was the DPF itself