Twice now my 15 month old 2.0l has failed to start after standing unused for a few days. First time I called out the recovery people only for the mechanic to turn the engine over first time - I'd flooded it, he said. I'd only tried the ignition a couple of times. Anyway it sounded awful, obviously wasn't firing properly, but he ran it for a while and advised to give it as good hard run. He said he'd disconnect the battery to reset the engine diagnostics and I had no problems getting where I needed to be. No messages came up. A check on the computer at Peugeot showed no faults. That was about seven months ago.This afternoon, having been away for a week, I go out to the car and it struggles into life after about four turns of the key. Again not firing properly but this time the engine diagnostic light stays on and I get a message saying there is a catalytic converter fault. The handbook says contact your dealer rapidly (rapidly??). On a Saturday afternoon? I left it for a while, found it restarted okay but then up comes another message saying there is an antipollution fault. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting the battery (how good is this for a girlie who barely knows where the oil goes?) but although the engine now seemed normal, the message came up again. I decided to go to Sainsbury's anyway and will ring the mechanics on Monday.
What I really want to know is why a car with less than 13,000 miles on the clock is unhappy about starting? I rely on my car get me from A-B when I want it to. It has no other purpose - well, okay, the CC is very pretty.
