Peugeot 206 CC 1.6 cut out,now won't restart.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Yesterday ,daughter no3 was driving the 206 in town at about 20 mph when it cut out, she couldn't restart it.

As usual I was miles away, so the RAC attended. The patrolman who was the rudest,laziest man ever, apparently plugged it in took the CPS out ,wiped it ,put it back and just said ,"never seen that code before,it's knackered!" .

Cue call to me from tearful offspring, he,reluctantly , took the phone , told me he'd checked the crank position sensor and he didn't know what was wrong. When I queried the cambelt snapping or similar ,he laughed and just said unlikely and handed the phone back.

It seems he did nothing else, got in his van and fucked off!

Daughter phoned control centre to see what was happening, they didn't know,he hadn't requested recovery at this point. They called back 10 mins later to say recovery would be 2 hrs and the patrol thought he'd explained everything to her.

Anyway, it's sitting outside now and I'm about to have a poke around, apart from checking that the belts there and no earths are hanging off ,what should I be looking for?

Is it worth getting a new CPS as that would appear to be what showed on Patrolman of the Year's scanner ?

[Volksy]

Fuel cut off switch? You never know...

[conkerman]

Sudden FTP could well be the CPS.

 

If you could bag one cheap it would well be worth a punt.

 

Check the belts first though.

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Had a quick look and put jump leads on to try it.

The cambelt is there and seems taut .

The Rev counter sort of bounces once when initially turning over then stays still.

Plenty of petrol.

It's not even trying to fire and there's no fuel smell even after a few turns.

 

Got to go and do a job now , will study Peugeot forums whilst I'm waiting at the airport

[Jim Bell]

With my limited knowledge, it sounds like it could well be the crank sensor.

 

ETA: With it getting a little colder, is it worth checking battery voltages too?

 

Nedz moar volts

[bigfella2]

Fuel cut off switch? You never know...

I,ve had that on a 2.0 206 after running over a raised man hole cover. But was doing more like 50. Possible though.

[Bear]

Fuel relay? And indeed, fuel pump itself?

[Joey spud]

The Patrol you had attend was piss poor,your subs pay his wages there is no excuse for crap service like this.

He should of offered to email you a breakdown report that should give you details of suspected diagnosis and a record of what fault code was generated by the car cutting out.

I would contact the customer care bods if I was you along the lines of lone female and poor level of service given.

 

As for the cut out a quick test is spray a bit of easy start up the air intake and crank it over.

if it fires up then you know the ignition and cam timings ok and you have a pump fault.

 

Does it spin over faster than normal?, these things pull teeth off the cam belt so take the top cover off and get someone to spin over while you look at the belt.

 

Was it deffo an orange van guy who attended?

[NorfolkNWeigh]

The Patrol you had attend was piss poor,your subs pay his wages there is no excuse for crap service like this.

He should of offered to email you a breakdown report that should give you details of suspected diagnosis and a record of what fault code was generated by the car cutting out.

I would contact the customer care bods if I was you along the lines of lone female and poor level of service given.

As for the cut out a quick test is spray a bit of easy start up the air intake and crank it over.

if it fires up then you know the ignition and cam timings ok and you have a pump fault.

Does it spin over faster than normal?, these things pull teeth off the cam belt so take the top cover off and get someone to spin over while you look at the belt.

Was it deffo an orange van guy who attended?

Yes definitely an RAC man , very dissapointed with the service, especially as I was singing the RAC's praises on another thread on Sunday. The recovery was a subcontractor- Friendly or something similar. The recovery guy couldn't believe where the patrol had left her - wrong side of the road just round a blind corner, when he could have moved it 200 yards along the road to a safe place, especially as it was dark.

Doesn't seem to turn over any quicker than normal, although I'm resigned to it not been a cheap sensor or relay !

[Joey spud]

Did he offer to email you any paper work and was she miles from home as my rule is you own the breakdown and recover it yourself whenever possible
We are all measured on fix rate and working time but there are some guys who just kick the tyres and do sod all because they are paid per job instead per hour like most of us so give shit service but do lots of jobs and look good on paper so management sweep their shit under the carpet,

 

I would complain.

[rainagain]

Different engine (1.9 diesel) but same car, my old 206 decided whilst in Cambridge not to start after I turned the engine off at some road works. It turned over fine and the engine would run up on easy start. I traced the fault to the large engine multi-plug down the gearbox side of the engine. The 12V feed in the plug had failed, rather than ripping the otherwise ok plug apart I ran a wire in parallel to the plug from one side of it to the other. I'm not sure if the 1.6 petrol engine uses a similar setup.