Hi All, And happy New year.
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I guess its sort of obvious i have some wiring issues, but thought id check here for hopefully some good ideas.
x250 - 2008 - 2.2 (The ford engine)
TLDR - Startup issues at cold engine/cold weather, multiple codes. Wiggle injector plugs to get it starting. Low and unstable battery voltage measured at ECU, good stable voltage at battery and chassis.
Summary
Hi Again, hope everyone is coping well and Happy new year!
Probably not the right forum for this, but I'll post anyway just in case someone has some good input.
Solved allot of problems with the van last year after fixing bad grounding to chassis from battery. And the Summer trip to Norway went with almost no hick-ups. But now I got problems again
Ive had a bad glow-plug and relay since last year and just now got it replaced and those codes haven't come back.
But I was also getting cold engine start issues with P200 injector circuit errors after weather became cold. Sometimes didn't start at all, until i went out and wiggled on the injector connections, then it would start and keep running, until next time it got cold. And i repeated to get it running. Garage had a look and claim they found a bad connection on the injectors. But now its gotten colder, last night i wasn't able to keep it running more than a few seconds before it died. . Today its warmer, i was eventually able to get it running.
Perhaps it seems obvious, but looks like i do have bad wiring somewhere (again). But weird its only happening when its cold. And never had a stop on long trips.
After i got it running today, i reset the below codes and they didn't reappear yet. But i bet they will once it gets cold again.
But in addition to the codes below, I noticed this:
Battery voltage inconsistency
With Multiecuscan, Battery voltage measured at the ECU is fluctuating and significantly lower than i measure at the battery and between batter and chassis.
Here are the other codes i got:
As a side-note, I usually don't have my other car key with me, this time i did. And I've read other keys can "disturb" the fiat system. Though that seems very far fetched to me.
Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for any help.
tore
EDIT: removing attachments, somehow gets detected as URLs
I guess its sort of obvious i have some wiring issues, but thought id check here for hopefully some good ideas.
x250 - 2008 - 2.2 (The ford engine)
TLDR - Startup issues at cold engine/cold weather, multiple codes. Wiggle injector plugs to get it starting. Low and unstable battery voltage measured at ECU, good stable voltage at battery and chassis.
Summary
- Bat Voltage at ECU fluctuate between 13.7 - 14.0
- At battery and chassis, stable 14.4
- Passenger airbag disabled (2nd time in vans history)
- U0426 – Electronic key
- P0200 – errors on several injectors
- P1601 – CAN Network (NCM)
- Only when its cold, usually only P0200, wiggle injector plugs somehow gets it going.
- Once its running warm, no issues. No on trip halts.
Hi Again, hope everyone is coping well and Happy new year!
Probably not the right forum for this, but I'll post anyway just in case someone has some good input.
Solved allot of problems with the van last year after fixing bad grounding to chassis from battery. And the Summer trip to Norway went with almost no hick-ups. But now I got problems again
Ive had a bad glow-plug and relay since last year and just now got it replaced and those codes haven't come back.
But I was also getting cold engine start issues with P200 injector circuit errors after weather became cold. Sometimes didn't start at all, until i went out and wiggled on the injector connections, then it would start and keep running, until next time it got cold. And i repeated to get it running. Garage had a look and claim they found a bad connection on the injectors. But now its gotten colder, last night i wasn't able to keep it running more than a few seconds before it died. . Today its warmer, i was eventually able to get it running.
Perhaps it seems obvious, but looks like i do have bad wiring somewhere (again). But weird its only happening when its cold. And never had a stop on long trips.
After i got it running today, i reset the below codes and they didn't reappear yet. But i bet they will once it gets cold again.
But in addition to the codes below, I noticed this:
Battery voltage inconsistency
With Multiecuscan, Battery voltage measured at the ECU is fluctuating and significantly lower than i measure at the battery and between batter and chassis.
- At the battery and chassis I see 14.4v stable on my multimeter
- At the ECU its fluctuating between 13.7 and 14.0v
Here are the other codes i got:
- U0426 – Electronic key
- P0200 – errors on several injectors
- P1601 – CAN Network (NCM)
- Passenger Airbag got disabled Happened once before when i had bad ground issues. I could re-enable it as per the manual.
As a side-note, I usually don't have my other car key with me, this time i did. And I've read other keys can "disturb" the fiat system. Though that seems very far fetched to me.
Sorry for the long post, and thanks in advance for any help.
tore
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