XIIVVX
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Here is the story.
Mrs XIIVVX's venerable Citroen C3, just six years old and on its way to 170,000 has lost power. It's really flabby (Bear in mind hers is the 92bhp turbo diesel which ladles bucketfuls of torque onto that 92 neddies and doesn't hang around whilst delivering its legendary 62mpg.
Tame spannerman gets loads of error codes, changes MAF sensor, restores normal performance (he says) for a few minutes and then it goes flat again.
Nothing he can do to clear the codes and another MAF sensor doesn't even get a momentary improvement.
So we give up and go to a Citroen dealer who clears all the error codes takes it for a drive from which it returns with 'Permanent fault on turbo' code
He then downloads new software to the ECU and retests. Code PO238 'airflow at turbo too low'
"Requires new turbo to rectify this fault - that'll be £1529 please"
Spannerman's view is that ECU software was corrupt, fed too high voltage to the two new MAF sensors burning them out. "Don't replace the turbo, it won't fix the problem'
Comments?
Mrs XIIVVX's venerable Citroen C3, just six years old and on its way to 170,000 has lost power. It's really flabby (Bear in mind hers is the 92bhp turbo diesel which ladles bucketfuls of torque onto that 92 neddies and doesn't hang around whilst delivering its legendary 62mpg.
Tame spannerman gets loads of error codes, changes MAF sensor, restores normal performance (he says) for a few minutes and then it goes flat again.
Nothing he can do to clear the codes and another MAF sensor doesn't even get a momentary improvement.
So we give up and go to a Citroen dealer who clears all the error codes takes it for a drive from which it returns with 'Permanent fault on turbo' code
He then downloads new software to the ECU and retests. Code PO238 'airflow at turbo too low'
"Requires new turbo to rectify this fault - that'll be £1529 please"
Spannerman's view is that ECU software was corrupt, fed too high voltage to the two new MAF sensors burning them out. "Don't replace the turbo, it won't fix the problem'
Comments?