306 Diesel Smoke problem

Take it back sharpish and get them to sort it. Make sure you get it seen to by their chief mechanic and not their spotty geek trainee.

Is this a turbo diesel? If so check that the rubber pipe running from the front of the intercooler to the injector pump has been pushed back on properly. Without that the car will refuse to go much above 60.

If it isn't that, then as other posters have said, take it back to the garage as soon as possible.

-Mark

Yes, I've done this already and they are being a little hopeless, saying they can't see what the problem is and that they are going to contact Peugeot. I don't really trust them.

Serves me right for using an unknown garage instead of my normal reliable one.

I'll apply a little more pressure tomorrow.

dan.

Name the Garage in shame on this list please. Chris Addlestone Surrey

Did they really say that? The manifolds are both on the other side of the engine. Certainly don't need to touch them to change the glow plugs.

I hope they really meant the intercooler, unless they don't know the difference. Check all the pipes are connected, and try to find out exactly what they touched when doing this job.

{sorry, posting via google]

I'm certain they said manifold. Either way, it looks like they removed the large silver part on top of the engine that has the air hose connected to it. (Apologies for severe lack of technical knowledge about my engine).

Thanks for the advice.

Dan

That sounds like the intercooler. If they don't know what it is then it's a pound to a shilling they don't know what they are doing. I would suggest that you tell them to get somebody who does know what they are doing to look at it at their expense or you will be paying your council's trading standards department a visit.

SO NAME THE GARAGE IN SHAME.THEN WE WILL NOT USE THEM.

He already has yesterday in reply to your post.

And as well as that I would check the "D" seal where the intercooler joins the inlet manifold. This can stretch and distort. Renew if in any doubt. Also check the big inlet pipe on the offside of the intercooler. Make sure the jubillee clip is tight.

So, after much head scratching, calls to a peugeot mechanic and general bafflement, they told me that they thought my fuel (injection) pump was shot. They deduced this because the pipe that ran back to the fuel tank had small amounts of copper(?) in it.

They showed me this when I went to pick the car up tonight but it didn't look like much detritus to me and I was surprised that this was the only sign of the pump being at fault.

They told me that I would be looking at between £500 and £800 for the part but they may be able to get my existing one reconditioned. I told them I needed the car to get home tonight and that I would think about what I would do over the weekend.

So they put everything back in place in order that I could drive home. I drove home at 70 mph with no smoke and decent acceleration.

Looks like they fixed the problem. Without knowing they fixed the problem.....

Won't be going there again then ;)

dan

So Name the Garage, and if it is near me i make sure that i will never use = it or other ppl in my area. from chris Addlestone Surrey

Chris, you really must read the back threads, he named it after your first request and this is your third.

I have looked back and i cant find it .. so if got the Garage name please put it on the site . thanks from chris Addlestone Surrey

I never saw the name either, but it WAS posted. Had to go through Google Groups though Bottisham motors, Bottisham, Cambridge

Google groups, mutter mutter...

Why not get a newsreader... Oh you have. Then why is it not possible to back up a a few messages and see it? You have got Agent set to group messages by thread haven't you? Just click that |+>

(bad ascii version of real button) at the top of the message list. Of course you may have it set to hide read messages in which case right click on Unread Messages at the top of the list to select All Messages.

Or his news server may miss some postings out which was a major failing with the BT news servers until a couple of weeks ago when they out sourced to Giganews.