Hi All,
My father has a Fiat (99) Ducato Maxi D LWB Boxer Van. Tho this van is old other than the starting problem its the perfect van.
We have had many people look this van over and it just seems to bamboozle just about everyone, even those in the garages who clearly just cannot be bothered in trying to get to the problem cant be bothered because its clearly not a simple problem and too time consuming for them to even take the van in.
The van drives, and it drives well, it can drives miles and miles - with no problems at all.
BUT ... the minute you turn off the ignition you are not going to get that van to start for love or money!!
We have to sit and wait for half and hour to an hour before she starts up again!! Even the AA had no clue!!
It sounds like a heating problem, but the van is not over heating!
New batteries have been brought (3 in fact)
New spark plugs and lots of other little bits and bobs, even a brand new start motor (2 by 2 different garages) still the same problem.
This makes no odds whether you drive for 1 mile or 40 miles, the after starting the engine and switching the engine off you have to wait half an hour before it will start again!!
If you guys have any ideas at all i would LUV ya forever, because this is really starting to get my papa down now, he loves this old tank and well, his slowly falling out of love with her and they have been together for so long it would be such a shame to see these two seperate lol !!
Thanks for listening
Salsere xx
My father has a Fiat (99) Ducato Maxi D LWB Boxer Van. Tho this van is old other than the starting problem its the perfect van.
We have had many people look this van over and it just seems to bamboozle just about everyone, even those in the garages who clearly just cannot be bothered in trying to get to the problem cant be bothered because its clearly not a simple problem and too time consuming for them to even take the van in.
The van drives, and it drives well, it can drives miles and miles - with no problems at all.
BUT ... the minute you turn off the ignition you are not going to get that van to start for love or money!!
We have to sit and wait for half and hour to an hour before she starts up again!! Even the AA had no clue!!
It sounds like a heating problem, but the van is not over heating!
New batteries have been brought (3 in fact)
New spark plugs and lots of other little bits and bobs, even a brand new start motor (2 by 2 different garages) still the same problem.
This makes no odds whether you drive for 1 mile or 40 miles, the after starting the engine and switching the engine off you have to wait half an hour before it will start again!!
If you guys have any ideas at all i would LUV ya forever, because this is really starting to get my papa down now, he loves this old tank and well, his slowly falling out of love with her and they have been together for so long it would be such a shame to see these two seperate lol !!
Thanks for listening
Salsere xx