Comments on: EFi mystery solved

By: johnny

johnny — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:59:56 +0000

hi y my car keep on stopping and i have to star again give it alittle rev and it run but when i stop it do the same,can smell lot of fuel to plz help thank you

By: Tim

Tim — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 09:28:59 +0000

Hi,

My parents had a 1996 Peugeot that would stop suddenly for no reason. after driving the car for a few days the mechanics traced it back to a faulty water level sensor in the radiator. The worst bit was the $900 bill (including the $90 part). Even more frustrating as dad has been a mad keen restorer of old cars and knows his way around the spanners, just not these modern fandangle ones!!! haha.

Love the blog mate, keep it up.

Cheers, Tim.

By: craig

craig — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:34:06 +0000

Hi Tammy,
From my experiences these vehicles are not particularly prone to fuel problems, however I do remember a fuel injected Jackaroo having to be towed in to our workshop a few years back with similar ‘symptoms’ to what you described and it did end up being a fuel problem.
What we did with that vehicle was replace the fuel filter and put a bottle of Fuel Injector Cleaner in with the fuel and the problem disappeared. Although this is not a ‘guaranteed’ fix for potential fuel issues it is certainly the easiest (and cheapest!) place to start and if the problems do persist we will then have a better idea of where to look next.

By: Tammie

Tammie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:26:52 +0000

I have Dec 1988 Holden Jackaroo Ls 2.6 l mpi. I Suspect there is a fuel issue the car starts but runs rough and stalls, just want to find out if their prone to problems with fuel problems and what best way to fault find the problem.