Took my car to kwik fit, driving home and the car cut out and leaking fuel.

[Rightboy91]

All I can say is that I've never ever seen a screw in injector intermittently leak like that....clamped in ones maybe but why is beyond me.
Injector looms are reasonably priced and do fail, I've had two Isuzu ones do this.
Sparks don't affect ECUs, but welding does.
An exhaust clamp would be cut through in 10 sec or less with minimal sparks so why the reported excessive sparking is beyond me.
I think diagnosis using a professional scanner recording live data is needed.
I do appreciate that its the owners prerogative to spend his money anyway he wants though!
John

I am not sure why this is either.

How long approximatly does a wiring loom take for rhe injectors to replace ?

I was wondering that myself about why he had the grinder operating for so long. it don't make sense.

would any garage who diagnostics be able to do a live data to check the injectors ? would the wiring loom be visible damamged if it was at fault ?

thanks

 

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[Burnerman]

Yep, find a Bosch diesel specialist and they will have all the gear that's needed.
The injector loom is difficult to fault trace due to the number of connections, have a look on eBay to see one.
John

 

[Rightboy91]

Yep, find a Bosch diesel specialist and they will have all the gear that's needed.
The injector loom is difficult to fault trace due to the number of connections, have a look on eBay to see one.
John

Can I take it to a local decent garage for that ? can it actually be diagnosed for sure without having to guess it as being the wiring loom before repacing it ? I think what I am trying to say is if kwik fit had damamged the wiring loom /contacted it with the grinder e.t.c. would it be easy to see i.e. burnt wiring/damamged wiring ?

 

[Mottie]

F i n d. A. B o s c h. D i e s e l. S p e c i a l i s t.

 

[mattylad]

F i n d. A. N e w. C a r.

 

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Andy

 

[Rightboy91]

F i n d. A. N e w. C a r.

WAIT.... I TOOK MY CAR TO A GARAGE BECAUSE YOU GUYS KEEP CRYING ABOUT IT TELLING ME TO TAKE IT TO A GARAGE, WITHIN 10 MINUTES OF LEAVING THE GARAGE MY CAR HAS THIS PROBLEM WHICH IT HAS NEVER HAD IN 4 YEARS, NEVER CUT OUT OR LEAKED FUEL UNTIL LEAVING KWIK FIT 10 MINUTES EARLIER. NEVER HAD INJECTOR OPEN CIRCUIT FAULT CODES BEFORE KWIK FIT
SO I SHOULD GET A NEW CAR BECAUSE ITS 99 PERCENT LIKELY A GARAGE DAMAGED MY CAR ?

WHAT ABOUT IF I BUY A NEW CAR AND HAVE TO TAKE IT IN TO A GARAGE FOR SOMETHING, DO I HAVE TO EXPECT IT MIGHT NEED SCRAPPING WHEN IT COMES OUT BECAUSE THEY MAY DAMAGE IT ?
NO, I WILL GO ABOUT TRYING TO GET THIS FIXED ASAP AND I AM MORE DETERMINED THAN EVER TO DO ALL THE WORK ON MY CAR MYSELF FROM NOW ON THAT WAY THE CAR DOESN'T HAVE PROBLEMS. THIS IS WHY I DON'T OFTEN TAKE MY CARS TO GARAGES, !!!!!!!!

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[Rightboy91]

S.T.O.P. D.R.I.V.I.N.G. T.H.I.S. D.E.A.T.H. T.R.A.P.

Andy

AGAIN I ASK YOU, HOW IS IT A DEATH TRAP ????

 

[denso13]

Can I take it to a local decent garage for that ?

Try Kwik Fit, they are good.

 

[Mottie]

I TOOK MY CAR TO A GARAGE

No, you didn’t. You took it to a tyre and exhaust fitting centre.

 

[Rightboy91]

No, you didn’t. You took it to a tyre and exhaust fitting centre.

Which should have been adequete for what it took it in for. Cut exhaust clamp off and pre MOT checks

 

[Mottie]

Which should have been adequete for what it took it in for......pre MOT checks

Are they an MOT centre?

 

[Rightboy91]

Are they an MOT centre?

They do Mots yes,

 

[johnny2007]

They do Mots yes,

God help their customers...