crank sensor/ fix or scrap car?

snoop2008

Advise please anyone.

My daughter has a Peugeot 206, its about 9 years old.
AA came out and said fault was crank sensor. AA took the car to quick fit, who said it was the ECU, and suggested it went to the Peugeot dealer near Edgware. They quoted £65 for inspection and £950 for ECU.

Anyway, there was no testing for the crank sensor by quick fit, and the car is parked outside my home.

question: is it worth fixing, I seen and have been told the crank sensor is not too expensive, but it could interfer with codes. whatever that means. And we don't have £950 pounds to rebuild or fix another ECU.

My instincts are telling me to scrap it!

Any advice please appreciated.

Thanks.

arcon5

Crank sensors are so inexpensive, possibly worth having a go at this first?

Iceweasel

Sounds like yet another kwiknit load of nonsense.

The AA with no vested interest read the fault codes and said crankshaft sensor - that I would believe. Did they actually quote you a fault code reference number?

You are sure it was crankshaft and not camshaft they said though?

Either way they are both cheap.

Crankshaft around a £10

Camshaft around £20

Did you go to a Peugeot dealer and say that you needed a new ECU as per Kwiknit or did you tell them the AA said you needed a crankshaft sensor?

£65 would be the normal price for them to do the same fault code check that the AA did.

Any decent mechanic should be able to change the sensor very easily and quickly.

Mankysteve

Find a decent local indie garage. Would be my first bit of advice

As a crank sensor is so cheap to change it worth a punt do you know anyone a bit mechically minded who could change it for you.

Just to give you idea of price here a quick eBay search
http://m.ebay.co.uk/search?cmd=SREF&bin=1&kw=crank+sensor+peugeot+206&cid=131090

forgotmyname

£30 or less for the sensor. Under £100 for a used ECU.

You dont any car of any age to kwikfit. and You dont take 9 year old cars to main dealers. All they want to do is fit brand new factory original parts which cost more than the cars worth.

Find a good local garage and get them to fit a new sensor. Then is it needs one a used ECU.
Dont tell them what it needs though, Let them do the work.

facade

forgotmyname wrote: »

£30 or less for the sensor. Under £100 for a used ECU.

A second hand ecu won't just work on its own, it will be coded to the car.

You might get away with the ecu and lock set to present the correct chipped key to the replacement ecu, or you might end up swapping ecu, lock set, security module and instrument panel.

I'd take a punt at a crank sensor. They are not coded, and just swap out. You could likely do it yourself if you find out where it is- try searching online.

Crank sensors fail all the time, Vauxhalls use more of them than they do tyres.

forgotmyname

facade wrote: »

A second hand ecu won't just work on its own, it will be coded to the car.

You might get away with the ecu and lock set to present the correct chipped key to the replacement ecu, or you might end up swapping ecu, lock set,

You dont need to change the lockset, Just the chip in the keys. But you can get thewhole lot ECU lockset and keys off ebay for £35.

Alarm ECU's under £20, Airbag ECU's also under £20.

Nothing is close to £900.

dmliverpool

Sounds like their pulling your leg. Pay for a local garage to inspect. If its anything more than this part scrap it. You can pick up a similar car for about 1k. Those cars are as cheap as chips.

worried_jim

!!!!!!. Kwik Fitt. Another spanking delivered.

reeac

snoop2008 wrote: »

Advise please anyone.

My daughter has a Peugeot 206, its about 9 years old.
AA came out and said fault was crank sensor. AA took the car to quick fit, who said it was the ECU, and suggested it went to the Peugeot dealer near Edgware. They quoted £65 for inspection and £950 for ECU.

Anyway, there was no testing for the crank sensor by quick fit, and the car is parked outside my home.

question: is it worth fixing, I seen and have been told the crank sensor is not too expensive, but it could interfer with codes. whatever that means. And we don't have £950 pounds to rebuild or fix another ECU.

My instincts are telling me to scrap it!

Any advice please appreciated.

Thanks.

I had big cold start problems once and eventually Bosch diagnosis said "crankshaft position sensor". It was simply accumulated dirt on the sensor [ca. 10 year old car]. The sensor was on the front of a fore & aft. engine and was presumably just road dirt. I assume that the dirt blurred the magnetic signal enough to cause problems under low battery voltage cold start conditions.

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Those little cheapo code readers make more problems than they are worth. Take it to a proper indie garage that has a proper reader.

Those cheap pocket readers were giving out a bunch of codes for my misfire problem. The proper reader gave one exact code and bang... problem diagnosed and fixed.