New owner requires help! (Please)

[James Green]

Hello everyone, i recently ( 3 days ago ) purchased what is my first car and so far i have had nothing but problems so lets start from the beginning.

I purchased a peugeot 206 1.4 diesel HDI second hand. My brother came to see the vehicle with me and what he saw he was very pleased with especially for the price. I drove it home and had no problems.
First thing the next morning myself and my girfriend went to fill up in my new car and after having filled up by roughly £40 I had a swimming pool of diesel under my car. I was not happy. After several garages telling me what they thought was wrong I bought a seal and screw top thing for the top of the fuel tank as after having it inspected by a mechanic at a peugeot garage it was split all the way through and held together with silicone and the big seal that fits inside it was covered in sealant.
So i took the vehicle to the garage down the road - next door to my brother and is very good- he took the fuel tank out and tightened the top back on completely so no more leaks occured. At the same time i decided to kill several birds with one stone so I had the cam belt changed as i had one given to me by the previous owner of the car ( new and sealed in the packaging ) and had the oil changed.
He also changed an o ring in what i think is called the resonator as it has some sort of black mist albeit a very very small barely noticable amount coming from it.

Everything worked perfectly until I was roughly half way to my girfriends house which is no more than 9 miles away down the duel carriageway. I hit 65MPH and went to overtake someone and nothing. Foot was flat to the floor and i was decreasing in speed. I changed down a gear and the revs went up slightly and still no power. We stopped at a layby on the duel carrigeway and i phoned my brother who said it was possibly just the ECU resetting itself due to having the cam belt done and to let it cool down and take it out later. So i went out for dinner and got back in the car maybe 4-5 hours later.

Same as before, i got 3-4 miles into the journey and nothing. Foot flat to the floor and no power at all. I was barely pulling away in first and second and it was literally just coasting in 3 4 and 5.

I phoned the AA out to come and take a look at it once we got it home and the mechanic thought that it may have been fuel starvation of the engine and to take it back to the garage which i did next morning as i was towed back by the AA.

Once back in the garage the mechanics rechecked the cambelt had been fitted correctly of which it had, proceeded to scratch heads (Literally) and phoned me roughly 2 hours after I had left after spending all morning there saying the turbo was knackered and I needed an entirely new turbo.

During all of this I have had NO warning lights what so ever and several people tell me what they think it could be.

A dirty oxygen sensor
Fuel starvation
Clutch needs replacing

I really am at a bit of a loss. It is my first car and i dont know the exhaust from the engine. I appreciate it is extremely hard to be able to tell over the internet but I really am hoping someone can.
I really appreciate any help that can be given.

Thanks

[gazza82]

Check the catalytic converter ... ours had those symptoms and the core had collapsed blocking the exhaust pipe ... instead of being a cylinder shape it was a small ball about the size of a small melon!

I broke mine out as a quick fix and all is well ... but I'm going to order a new one soon.



And your brother's idea of the ECU relearning after a cambelt change is not correct ... (I'm trying to be polite!)



Ps You might get more help from the guys on 206info.co.uk ... this CC forum doesn't usually need to discuss the 1.4 hdi as this wasn't fitted to that model. 1.6, 1.6 hdi and 2.0 138bhp.

[James Green]

Thank you very much for the quick reply gazza. Will take a look at that website and repost this there.
Really appreciate it

[Capncol]

I would start by looking at the fuel tank. Given the work just carried out, I would look for chunks of silicone sucked up the fuel pipe