Peugeot FAP query?

[Pillock]

Well, lack of FAPPAGE and DMF count towards it. They're still shit though, they're far too much like hard work to drive since you have to be up and down the gearbox like anything each time you need to adjust your speed. For a turdblowa they've got absolutely no torque to speak of. Seats are too hard (because German cars have hard seats, German cars are expensive, ergo hard seats mean quality), electrics are too flakey and random bits of trim just leap to their death.

 

But seriously, the power to weight of the HDi90 makes it a less enjoyable ride than Vanessa Feltz.

 

Hope it was cheap Pog! We* paid £4k for a low-mileage '54 reg a year ago

 

 

* I say we, I dumped her not long after.

[pogweasel]

Oh.

 

Well, I was supposed to be picking this car up on Friday, but the vendor called to let me know that a warning light had come on and he couldn't sell me the car, presumably some kind of STOP warning/limp-mode combo. So possibly had a lucky escape.

 

Right, I'm off to dribble over LDV's on eBay. L8rz.

[Father Ted]

Know a friendly farmer? Stock up for free!

Eloys fluid is in fact male goats piss dyed blue*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*may be utter bollocks.

[Laird_Scooby]

Haven't a clue what a FAP is but my experience of Peugeot/Citroen vehicles, both as a Pug technician (auto electrics) and a driver of these heaps and the victim of their poor quality whilst driving an Iveco Turbo Daily now mean i wouldn't give anything from the PSA group driveway space!

 

I still suffer badly with my neck thanks to a 6 month old Berlingo pirouetting in the outside lane of the M3 due to the driver touching the brakes! I'd had at least 2 Berlingo company vans back to the dealers in their first 6 months for the same fault - one wheel locks up due to a problem with the auto-adjuster on the rear brakes. Anyway, the Astra behind the Berlingo stopped, behind the Astra i stopped my long-wheelbase twin-wheel Iveco Turbo Daily - the Citroen Relay/Peugeot Boxer behind just kept coming at 70mph despite the driver literally standing on the brakes - dodgy master cylinder apparently! This was December 2000. Some time after that, i had another Berlingo as a company van which had a dodgy master cylinder - the brake pedal would feel hard but no braking effort was transmitted to the wheels! Not good when the traffic lights turn red and you're doing 60mph! This was at 30,000 miles but my boss (the previous driver) had reported the problem before 9,000 miles when i took the van on and he got a new turbo diesel Dispatch which also had dodgy brakes! The dealers that originally misdiagnosed the master cylinder on the Berlingo before i told them it was the master cylinder refused to treat it as a warranty claim even though it had been reported in the first year and they couldn't find the problem!

 

Oh yeah, there were many other problems with the Berlingos, the list is too long to go into! Suffice to say i won't travel in a PSA group car now unless i'm not given a choice. They should all carry a government health warning!!

 

Back to the original topic, when the dealers update their computerised diagnostic kit and the Apollo 2000 gets binned, how are the FAP things going to be reset?

[CreepingJesus]

Know a friendly farmer? Stock up for free!

Eloys fluid is in fact male goats piss dyed blue*.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*may be utter bollocks.

 

In all seriousness: if the stuff is the same 'AdBlue' that I stuff in trucks, then it will be dead easy to get some. And it isn't expensive either. Is the reservoir really hard to get to, to refill; or is there some other factor?

[Laird_Scooby]

Hopefully this will be a little bit of help, did a search for "Eloys fluid" :

 

http://www.howtomendit.com/answers.php?id=324574

 

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Motoring ... 04643.html

 

http://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/v ... ight=eloys

 

Also searched for AdBlue and it is in fact goats piss dyed blue!!!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdBlue

 

http://wikicars.org/es/AdBlue

 

Well, ok, maybe not actual goats - but somethings or someones!! In one or other of the links i found, it transpires the Eloys stuff is highly carcinogenic so makes you wonder how long it will be in use for!