Peugeot 207 Fault

Dachshund

Hello,
New on this forum, looking for advise in relation to my french quality car. Sorry it’s going to be a long one. It’s a Peugeot 207 2009 1.6 diesel. Don’t know the full history, had 4 previous owner, I only have it since July. Car was driving fine until it suddenly cut off with a warning “anti pollution system fault “plus engine light. Didn’t restart, when it did about 5 min later, was working ok. In meantime the usual oil oil filter air filter fuel filter have been changed, no fault for about 2 months. Yesterday while I was waiting in the car with the engine ticking, it stopped, warning was oil pressure level. Restarted, no fault. This morning on my way to work engine cut off, anti pollution system fault + engine light, didn’t restart, after about 5 min it did, warning disappeared. Also after this episode, even though the temperature was on 90, the car heating was blowing cool air (it was set to 24). I drove home with no problem, car and heating was all ok but it’s now happened a few times and I don’t feel this is safe as most of the times I drive on motorways. Any idea what could this be and how to sort it???? Please?

fatrab

It could be anything but on a 9 year old Pug I'd guess at an electrical/sensor fault. Do you know anyone who could pop a code reader on it for you and get the fault codes?


If you read through the threads on here and on the more specialised motoring forums, the general advice is to avoid older French cars because they're riddled with these kind of faults. I'm not saying other manufacturers don't have issues too, but Peugeot/Citroen are renowned. The Peugeot 1.6 td engine is also well known to suffer from turbo failure as that engine is used in many other cars, not just Peugeots.


Did you buy it from a garage? If so take it back. If not, see if there's an independent Peugeot specialist in your area who could look at it for you (not a main dealer as they'll charge a fortune)


Best of luck with it

motorguy

Dachshund wrote: »

Hello,
New on this forum, looking for advise in relation to my french quality car. Sorry it’s going to be a long one. It’s a Peugeot 207 2009 1.6 diesel. Don’t know the full history, had 4 previous owner, I only have it since July. Car was driving fine until it suddenly cut off with a warning “anti pollution system fault “plus engine light. Didn’t restart, when it did about 5 min later, was working ok. In meantime the usual oil oil filter air filter fuel filter have been changed, no fault for about 2 months. Yesterday while I was waiting in the car with the engine ticking, it stopped, warning was oil pressure level. Restarted, no fault. This morning on my way to work engine cut off, anti pollution system fault + engine light, didn’t restart, after about 5 min it did, warning disappeared. Also after this episode, even though the temperature was on 90, the car heating was blowing cool air (it was set to 24). I drove home with no problem, car and heating was all ok but it’s now happened a few times and I don’t feel this is safe as most of the times I drive on motorways. Any idea what could this be and how to sort it???? Please?

OK... its a 1.6HDI engine and thats the horrible one. Anti pollution fault on those is usually DPF which may also impact the EGR valve and turbo.

A couple of things though -
Firstly, have you checked the oil level? Keep it topped up. An oil pressure light on is a worry. Its not a low oil warning light. There is no warning.
Secondly, no warm air suggests the car has somewhere along the line the car has lost / is losing coolant.

I really really hope its "just a sensor" as optimistically suggested, but those sound like serious and expensive problems....

Get it checked over by a good mechanic, but i fear it wont be good news.

fatrab

motorguy wrote: »

I really really hope its "just a sensor" as optimistically suggested

I really didn't intend for that to come across as "just a sensor", I've worked on many older Peugeots and the electrical faults on many of them are a complete b**** to sort out.

motorguy

fatrab wrote: »

I really didn't intend for that to come across as "just a sensor", I've worked on many older Peugeots and the electrical faults on many of them are a complete b**** to sort out.

Apologies - you're right, i thought you had put "just a" but you hadnt.

Yes, even electrical faults are awful to sort out on older Peugeots.

Tuhin

The engine cuts off suddenly and it has been doing it more frequently now. Sometimes it switches back on, and other times it takes 2-4 attempts to switch the engine on from ignition.

I’ve spoken to several mechanics, one said sensor, another two said ECU, wire. I called up Peugeot and just for the diagnostic test alone is £105 + VAT.

Can’t find any faults or codes to see the exact problem.
No message, error or symbols appear on the dashboard. Only when the engine stops, then does the engine management light appears and occasionally the ‘anti pollution fault’ message comes on.

If anyone has had similar problem on this model, can you let me know. I don’t want to spend hundreds of pounds but in the same time I don’t want an incident to occur.