Fuel Injection Made Easy
For some weeks now my daughter's Peugeot 106 has been randomly misfiring and/or cutting out and generally misbehaving. Therefore it makes sense to randomly replace things rather than to sit down and logically work out what's wrong. Armed with an eBay user name and a bank account I have bought "some bits" and replaced them - funnily enough - to no avail.
Today I replaced the last item before throwing in the towel and taking it to a Peugeot dealer. I replaced the ECU temperature sender with a new one from the local parts shop. Plugged it in, plugged it out - no difference.
Let's have a think. Tick over fine, open throttle and it works, move throttle a bit more and it stops, open throttle some more and it works. Close throttle and it stops...
I eventually decided that this reminded me of the "old days" when the volume control on a radio needed cleaning when the sound, rather than increasing slowly as you turned up the volume, crackled and leaped from "nice and quite" to "turn that bloody music off".
Read manual... "Throttle potentiometer..." Ah, sounds like a candidate. How do you take it off? Read manual again... "Under no circumstances should you fiddle with this unit - take it to a Peugeot dealer."
So I ignored this advice, fiddled with it1 and completely sorted the problem.
Yes!
1Actually, it was very carefully remove it and clean the carbon surface with meths to remove the build up of non-conductive film that had somehow got all over it.
Today I replaced the last item before throwing in the towel and taking it to a Peugeot dealer. I replaced the ECU temperature sender with a new one from the local parts shop. Plugged it in, plugged it out - no difference.
Let's have a think. Tick over fine, open throttle and it works, move throttle a bit more and it stops, open throttle some more and it works. Close throttle and it stops...
I eventually decided that this reminded me of the "old days" when the volume control on a radio needed cleaning when the sound, rather than increasing slowly as you turned up the volume, crackled and leaped from "nice and quite" to "turn that bloody music off".
Read manual... "Throttle potentiometer..." Ah, sounds like a candidate. How do you take it off? Read manual again... "Under no circumstances should you fiddle with this unit - take it to a Peugeot dealer."
So I ignored this advice, fiddled with it1 and completely sorted the problem.
Yes!
1Actually, it was very carefully remove it and clean the carbon surface with meths to remove the build up of non-conductive film that had somehow got all over it.
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