Anyone have any ideas why a diesel would stall and then refuse to start? the car is an M reg 1.5D Corsa that my dad bought from an auction last week (!), drove it home, stalled it in the drive and it has refused to start since! Diesels are a complete mystery to me, so does anyone ahve any ideas where to start looking, known issues etc??
thanks guys,
John
broken cambelt
The message from "jsebc" contains these words:
Cam belt.
what damage is likely on a diesel??
Same as petrol- bent valves! If its the standard 1.7 you may be lucky and get away with snapped fingers only.
Tim..
The message from "jsebc" contains these words:
Lots.
Several bent valves at least, and depending of the flavour of the engine pistons, camshafts, rockers....
It probably isn't though, unless they put the 1.7 engined in the 1.5D models. HTH. :-)
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