Is there any method of tensioning or adjusting the cable on a 406 hdi for the fuel flap? When pulling the lever in the car the flap very rarely opens, and I can only imagine that it needs tensioned somehow, or even replaced, but have no idea how to go about it?
TIA
You need a new flap. The spring arrangement on the hinge is starting to break.
And it's apparently a pig of a job to fit. Mine's gone so it's a case of wedge up the lever and open the flap by hand - my plan is to fit a compression spring to the inside of the flap.
Chris
yes it is a sod of a job but when its got to be done its got to be done ...
This is from a previous post of mine.
The bit that opens the flap is part of the hinge and is just a piece of plastic that goes up against the bodywork at the hinge and bends slightly. Then when the release is pulled it "unbends" and opens the flap. It breaks if you close the flap too hard. To fix it you need a new flap, and it comes unpainted. However I have got round this. Gently tap the long hinge pin upward about an inch so that the smaller diameter parts of the pin are in-line with the two parts of the hinge. (you'll see what I mean when you do it!) You'll see a bit of plastic protruding from the flap just above the pin, which prevents the pin from working its way upward by itself. Then pull the flap off the pin. With a sharp knife cut around the join of the painted bit to the rest of the flap until the two parts come apart. Do the same with the new flap. Clean up where the two parts meet and super glue the painted bit to the new flap part carefully so that no glue gets on the painted bit. Put a weight (book?) on it and leave for 30 mins or so. Then push it back on the pin and tap the pin down so that it is under the protruding bit of plastic. All should now work!
I had a problem with mine (a 406SV ) about four years ago soon after I got it. I forget precisely what happened but I was able to fix it by gentle surgery on the plastic. In my case, I removed the top (of three) black flap which is part of the fuel lid assembly and which, with the other two, consitute the 'spring' which makes the flap want to open.
My recollection is that the lid itself simply pulls off/clicks onto the hinge pin - I think, in fact, that my problem was some sort of breakage on the black part which caused it to lever the lid off when you attempted to close it. As I say, there are three black 'springs' and the remaining two do the job OK.
I think the essence of Nigel's and my experience is that if you carefully work our how the lid open/closure works, you may be able to solve the problem fairly easily - surgery rather than replacement.
I also had a problem with the catch sticking - that is, when you opened the lid by pulling the trigger to retract the black catch, it stayed retracted and the lid would not close.
Again I worked out a fix. You could get it to open by tapping around it and/or by flicking the trigger. I think I sanded the catch a bit, tidied up around it and applied lashings of graphite powder - the stuff you use for locks.
Also I adopted the habit, when opening the flap, If letting the trigger go so it snapped back, rather than lowering it as one tends to do.
Well that problem has not recurred. In both cases the fix has worked for years (touch wood)
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