It gets me how some of these local garages stay in business, it must be the profits from firing the parts cannon instead of doing some real diagnosis of potential faults.
You make the diagnosis and repair look so simple that it’s all the more amazing the previous garages missed it. It seems sometimes that it’s easier just to load and fire the parts cannon rather than systematically deduce what’s wrong with the vehicle. Another cracking video!
Good video mate fitters are shit scared to fit injector seals and blast washers I do it to my own vehicles as part of a service keep them videos coming Top Man👍👍
A few years ago I bought what was at the time a 4 year old Citroen Relay van with the earlier Euro 4 version of this engine. The guy I bought it from had been told by a garage that the engine was knocking and needed replacing. He didn't want to pay the thousands he had been quoted for fitting a new engine so I agreed to buy the van off him for salvage. When I finally got it back to the shop to start taking a look at it, I was blown away to see that all four injectors were dancing up and down when the engine was started! Obviously it was just a case that the two bolts holding the clamps had stretched and started to undo themselves. How the hell a garage had missed that I cannot fathom! I actually rang the guy back up to let him know what the problem was and ask if he wanted the van back, alas he had already gone out and bought a new van a few days earlier and told me to keep it! Apparently though, I heard afterwards that he had had a few choice words with the guy at the garage. 😬 I notice on the Euro 5 engine they changed the design of the clamps and it no longer seems to be quite as much of a problem as it once was.
Great vid Jimmy. Broke down myself today in the old kuga. Throttle body gear broke🤦🏻. Nipped in a local shop for superglue as a temp fix to get home. Keep up the great wirk👍🏻
Had the same fault code on my van (mk7 euro5). Turned out it was the small hole feeding the MAP sensor on the inlet manifold. Changed the manifold and sorted the problem. The inlet gets so gunked up with oily carbon the ecu/pcm get thrown out of whack because the baro pressure and map pressure don’t correlate.
Great job Jimmy. I did think them injector clamp bolts were one time use only, as there stretch bolts. Love your videos, keep up the great work you do. 👌🏻
Hi Jimmy - thanks for another great video - do you not fancy having a products page / store that people can buy the tools you use - Keep up the good work your videos are invaluable to someone that is having problems & has been fobbed off / ripped off 👍👍👍
Shame on mechanics who do people ungood. My illiterate mom can see that injector leaking in a mile and know it is not a good thing. Thanks for making videos.
We had same issue on our transit, local Bosch agent, charged £1100 for dpf clean. Another local garage fitted new turbo and egr and various valves. Ford had the vehicle for 3 weeks and worst part was Ford said will change the turbo at cost of 3k but we are not sure if this will cure the problem. It was fixed by a local mobile mechanic.
Seems there are a lot of Fords! Are they just more plentiful or more problematic? Really enjoy your videos. I think diagnostics is a skill many just don’t possess.
Any other faults that led to p0299 fault? New engine and new turbo chra fitted to a blown engine purchase(failed injector -hole in #3). Runs well, but boost comes in at 2250 rpm and is missing prior. Vgt Actuator is moving correctly. Inlet tested with 5psi and bubble fluid, cant see anything and nothing heard down exhaust. Van is Slow off the mark then after 2250 plenty of boost, but demanded and actual map/boost fit well. Will not fault in 1 or 2, but in 3rd or above at part/light throttle. Any ideas? Thinking of replacing the whole turbo rather than the chra, or looking at egr (but it and cooler look very new).
@Jimmy My custom give me a underboost and overboost But only if i tow my caravan in the hils!! turbo vanes are not stuck put a new actuator in. cleaned the dpf with launch dpf cleaer dpf reading no caravan idle 2 Kpa 3000 rpm 12Kpa dpf reading caravan normal driving 2000 rpm 12 Kpa and uphill 2500 a 3000 rpm 42 Kpa but turbo is dan on full boost 255 Kpa. Car had done 300000 Km what do you think dpf full with ash ?
Howya Jimmy, love your show. Used to have diesel taxis and drove trucks for a long time. Covid made me buy a 2008 1.6 petrol Qashqi, 250,000 km back in 2021, over the last few years I've spent a bit on wishbones, driving 12k a year. Been watching your vids for a long time and I'm starting to realise that the bosses want us to give up diesel, load of bolox DPF, bad for your business, but what do you think?
Just looked, Sykes Picavant set 114.... lots of cheap sets on ebay. Obviously it would be good to have the tool to block injector hole to stop dirt going down...
We had a similar problem on our Mk7 Euro5 transit. Kept getting told it needed the turbo replaced, but demanded and actual turbo positions were perfectly in line. Replaced EGR which was totally gunged up, solved the underboost problem. Now we have some black smoke out of exhaust and regen happening every 70 miles. Would this be due to injector seals please ?
First stage: 6Nm - Second stage: Tighten a further 180 degrees. Too much crankcase pressure could also be a blocked engine breather, located in the top of the plastic rocker cover. But these very rarely block up unless you have other engine problems like excessive carbon build up or yogurt from a leaking coolant system or blown head gasket. Worst case scenario it's due to excessive blow bye gasses from worn bores/piston rings etc.
You have to recut the injector seats in the head on these engines and you have to replace the injector bolts as they are one time use stretch bolts,you also have to be careful with aftermarket copper seals as the originals are slightly curved on one side that sits against the injector whereas some aftermarket ones are flat on both sides and don’t last
