Hi all I,m hoping some of you knowlageble chaps have some ideas on how to resurect my Terrano back to life.It is a 2.7 TDI commercial that I use for my pest control business (and to get kids to school and fetch supplies in the snow of late) and I am totally lost without it.
The story so far; it has done 160+k miles and in the four years i have owned it, it has never missed a beat until about five weeks ago, just when the first snow fell.when I started it on the Sunday it started fine as usual but a couple of times stopped almost straigt away then started and ran fine.On the monday it started fine and I made a few calls then went to a farm job stopped engine as usual 30mins later jumped in ready for off, but no off !motor just turned over but would not start,no smoke from exhaust ,nothing,battery running flat,jump start off another vehicle ,nothing.
Vehicle towed in to my local one man band independent garage.
I then went abroad for 3 1/2 weeks to visit relatives (missing most of the snow) and left it with him expecting it to be sorted when I get back, WRONG !
I arrive back New years day to find van still in the same spot.
There is fuel getting to the fuel pump (gauze in banjo union clear) but no fuel arriving at no1 injector.I am not 100% sure what mechanic has actually done but he had another guy check it with a scanner of some sort and only clarfied that it was not the immobiliser stopping it from starting(this vehicle has a different system from the NATS standard one) when I asked him about fault codes he was pretty non discript saying it pointed to the pump.
He basically has no idea what to do next.
I recharged the battery, checked and cleaned terminals,checked fuses and various electrical connections,no change.
I then followed the download feature on reading the fault codes bridging the connector as described,when I disconected after 2 seconds nothing happend but if I left the bridge in the mil light flashed continuing to give me codes,should this happen like this? should it give codes without the engine running? has some of the things the mechanic tried caused it to give out false codes?
Any help ,ideas much appreciated (if I havent put you to sleep yet with my ramblings) as not having the old girl going is causing me major grief !!
The story so far; it has done 160+k miles and in the four years i have owned it, it has never missed a beat until about five weeks ago, just when the first snow fell.when I started it on the Sunday it started fine as usual but a couple of times stopped almost straigt away then started and ran fine.On the monday it started fine and I made a few calls then went to a farm job stopped engine as usual 30mins later jumped in ready for off, but no off !motor just turned over but would not start,no smoke from exhaust ,nothing,battery running flat,jump start off another vehicle ,nothing.
Vehicle towed in to my local one man band independent garage.
I then went abroad for 3 1/2 weeks to visit relatives (missing most of the snow) and left it with him expecting it to be sorted when I get back, WRONG !
I arrive back New years day to find van still in the same spot.
There is fuel getting to the fuel pump (gauze in banjo union clear) but no fuel arriving at no1 injector.I am not 100% sure what mechanic has actually done but he had another guy check it with a scanner of some sort and only clarfied that it was not the immobiliser stopping it from starting(this vehicle has a different system from the NATS standard one) when I asked him about fault codes he was pretty non discript saying it pointed to the pump.
He basically has no idea what to do next.
I recharged the battery, checked and cleaned terminals,checked fuses and various electrical connections,no change.
I then followed the download feature on reading the fault codes bridging the connector as described,when I disconected after 2 seconds nothing happend but if I left the bridge in the mil light flashed continuing to give me codes,should this happen like this? should it give codes without the engine running? has some of the things the mechanic tried caused it to give out false codes?
Any help ,ideas much appreciated (if I havent put you to sleep yet with my ramblings) as not having the old girl going is causing me major grief !!
