A bit of a long story but I'll try and give all the relevant facts (firstly an admission it's a Boxer not a Ducato but I'm hoping for the purpose of my question it doesn't matter)
A motorhome 2005 2.8 jtd (hdi)that I've had for 5 years with no problems recently broke down twice.
The first was after a 250 mile journey then parked in a ferry queue for an hour and the van failed to start, the immobiliser light going out and turning over quickly but not starting. Breakdown service was called and the mechanic connected a jump starter pack (not sure why as the battery was showing no signs of being flat) During the process of connecting the jump leads the positive connection was disturbed causing a poor connection so I suggested he clean the terminal and reconnect which he did and the van then started (I wasn't convinced the fault had been found as the engine was turning quickly prior to the terminal being disturbed).
Next day catch the ferry to Ireland from Wales (so multiple stop and start situations without problem) Then drive 120 miles or so and the van very briefly cuts out and restarts (literally only a fraction of a second but not a good omen) Anyway 3 miles later the van spluttered a bit and cut out then would not restart. Breakdown services called again and arrived 2 hours later a low and behold the van started so I looked a bit silly (not for the first time) luckily while the van was ticking over and I was talking to the breakdown guy it cut out again and would not restart so I asked him to read the codes which he did and said it had multiple injector fault codes and an immobiliser fault code so nothing he could do.
Next the van was taken to a garage who did some diagnostics and said there was no signal from the crank sensor, the crank sensor was replaced and apparently was giving a signal but van would still not start ! Apparently the van was then bump started but was still showing fault codes but the garage had no time to do more tests.
So I decided to take the risk and then spent a couple of weeks in Ireland and then back to Devon doing 500+ miles with no problems (not missing/ no loss of power/and starting ok)
So the van is now running absolutely fine but obviously no fault has been corrected and the fault codes are still occurring so could reoccur at any time so I don't feel confident in taking it too far.
The fault codes are P0204 injector cyl 4 , P0201 injector cyl 1 , P0202 injector cyl 2 and U1600 coded start fault , despite these fault codes the van is currently running fine also not sure why cyl 3 is not showing a fault.
Until I can establish why these fault codes are appearing I'm not happy to go too far so any advice gratefully accepted.
Not sure if it's relevant but the van has an after market cruise control but this was fitted 5 years ago the van has also been professionally remapped but again a number of years ago.
Sorry for such a long post but I 5hink with problem solving always best to have all the facts.
Thanks in advance Geoff
A motorhome 2005 2.8 jtd (hdi)that I've had for 5 years with no problems recently broke down twice.
The first was after a 250 mile journey then parked in a ferry queue for an hour and the van failed to start, the immobiliser light going out and turning over quickly but not starting. Breakdown service was called and the mechanic connected a jump starter pack (not sure why as the battery was showing no signs of being flat) During the process of connecting the jump leads the positive connection was disturbed causing a poor connection so I suggested he clean the terminal and reconnect which he did and the van then started (I wasn't convinced the fault had been found as the engine was turning quickly prior to the terminal being disturbed).
Next day catch the ferry to Ireland from Wales (so multiple stop and start situations without problem) Then drive 120 miles or so and the van very briefly cuts out and restarts (literally only a fraction of a second but not a good omen) Anyway 3 miles later the van spluttered a bit and cut out then would not restart. Breakdown services called again and arrived 2 hours later a low and behold the van started so I looked a bit silly (not for the first time) luckily while the van was ticking over and I was talking to the breakdown guy it cut out again and would not restart so I asked him to read the codes which he did and said it had multiple injector fault codes and an immobiliser fault code so nothing he could do.
Next the van was taken to a garage who did some diagnostics and said there was no signal from the crank sensor, the crank sensor was replaced and apparently was giving a signal but van would still not start ! Apparently the van was then bump started but was still showing fault codes but the garage had no time to do more tests.
So I decided to take the risk and then spent a couple of weeks in Ireland and then back to Devon doing 500+ miles with no problems (not missing/ no loss of power/and starting ok)
So the van is now running absolutely fine but obviously no fault has been corrected and the fault codes are still occurring so could reoccur at any time so I don't feel confident in taking it too far.
The fault codes are P0204 injector cyl 4 , P0201 injector cyl 1 , P0202 injector cyl 2 and U1600 coded start fault , despite these fault codes the van is currently running fine also not sure why cyl 3 is not showing a fault.
Until I can establish why these fault codes are appearing I'm not happy to go too far so any advice gratefully accepted.
Not sure if it's relevant but the van has an after market cruise control but this was fitted 5 years ago the van has also been professionally remapped but again a number of years ago.
Sorry for such a long post but I 5hink with problem solving always best to have all the facts.
Thanks in advance Geoff