10-08-2017, 07:02 PM
(10-08-2017, 11:00 AM)Poodle Wrote: No disrespect to your brother, but how hot is he on modern diesels? In my experience most mechanics are years out of date and don't understand what they should be looking for with common rail diesels. If he's confident then get your ecu sent off to get it de-immobilised, as there's nothing else that can prevent the car from starting besides that which is visible on diagnostics.
I'm assuming this is a random fault that has appeared out of nowhere and you haven't missed out some vital detail along the lines of "i hydro-locked the car yesterday" or "it's been sat for 7 years"..? Just asking, you'd be amazed at what people leave leave out sometimes lol.
he is 23 and been a mechanic since he was 17, he works for roger rescue as their main mechanic so any car the breaks down he has to repair.
i brought the car of a good mate as a non runner for £200 but it's got £210 worth of stuff i need on it and then more aswell so it is only a parts car for me and will be getting broke but an engine is worth more "running" than "non-runner".
car was being used daily, it's stage 1 mapped, guy who owned it said it just randomly started reving up and took off on its own then died, he seem to think it was turbo seals but there is minimal oil in intake manifold and oil still full in the engine itself. car went off the road about 6 months ago. been non runner since then and i brought her for parts and we found it wasn't the turbo seals so we have started investigating.
Update: the car now starts to fire about 5 times then cuts the fuel, stops the fuel going to the engine but it does start to fire. to get to this we changed the 2 ecu relays which were completely burnt out and now she begins to fuel but then cuts out.