Muddur
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Last week my Panda (169) lost the drive wheel for the V-belt-
The belt drives the generator, and the condition-pump.
Yes! It actually lost the wheel. I found one broken bolt in the engine mount and the rest was missing . It was my luck the wheel feel of at low speed (5-10 km/h) and the engine stopped at once. The sound of the old V-wheel hitting the asphalt was quite terryfying.
The broken bolt was removed and a new V-wheel and the belt was replaced with original Fiat parts.
The car started without errors and the performance and acceleration is was better than when I bought it 4 months ago.
Two days later on a late night on a highway (doing 110 km/h), I suddenly got the yellow warning light. Shortly after I stopped it turned off.
The day after I scanned the ODBD and got:
Errors found:
P0300 - Ignition failures (generic)
P0304 - Cylinder 4 ignition failures
P0301 - Cylinder 1 ignition failures
The day after that day, on the highway I got it again.
This time it was easy to hear that that I had an inter-mitten ignition failure.
As I coasted into the emergency lane the engine warning light disappeared.
I sat several minutes listing to the engine with the ODBD connected to my laptop without the issue reappearing
It seams that it only happens above a certain speed.
Question:
1. Are there a certain way to mount the V-belt drive wheel?
2. Does the sensor that monitors the Crankshaft (My guess is that the sensor that points to the drive wheel is a Crankshaft sensor), affects the timing?
3. Can a faulty grounding connection in the left rear-light which cause inter-mitten signalling, cause this fault?
All suggestion are welcome
The belt drives the generator, and the condition-pump.
Yes! It actually lost the wheel. I found one broken bolt in the engine mount and the rest was missing . It was my luck the wheel feel of at low speed (5-10 km/h) and the engine stopped at once. The sound of the old V-wheel hitting the asphalt was quite terryfying.
The broken bolt was removed and a new V-wheel and the belt was replaced with original Fiat parts.
The car started without errors and the performance and acceleration is was better than when I bought it 4 months ago.
Two days later on a late night on a highway (doing 110 km/h), I suddenly got the yellow warning light. Shortly after I stopped it turned off.
The day after I scanned the ODBD and got:
Errors found:
P0300 - Ignition failures (generic)
P0304 - Cylinder 4 ignition failures
P0301 - Cylinder 1 ignition failures
The day after that day, on the highway I got it again.
This time it was easy to hear that that I had an inter-mitten ignition failure.
As I coasted into the emergency lane the engine warning light disappeared.
I sat several minutes listing to the engine with the ODBD connected to my laptop without the issue reappearing
It seams that it only happens above a certain speed.
Question:
1. Are there a certain way to mount the V-belt drive wheel?
2. Does the sensor that monitors the Crankshaft (My guess is that the sensor that points to the drive wheel is a Crankshaft sensor), affects the timing?
3. Can a faulty grounding connection in the left rear-light which cause inter-mitten signalling, cause this fault?
All suggestion are welcome
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