Certainly not diagnostically related, but are these the same kind of
coils that are used in the BMW 525i?
Ken
On Sep 5, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Paul Strickland wrote:
> Steve,
>
> This is a nasty problem !
>
> I had this same problem on an 85 N9T engine with only 1 ignition coil.
>
> It took me a few years until I just caught on to the problem.
>
> Same thing would happen. Car would run just fine and all of sudden
> shut down. I would check for ignition and it was fine. Must be fuel
> cut off. I checked all the wiring and it looked good.
>
> Then one time at night when the thing was running, I noticed a faint
> glow from the high tension lead on the ignition coil.
>
> What was happening here was that the high voltage would snap over to
> the primary side, the 12V input. and put a spike on the 12V. This in
> turn, got into the injection ECU and cut off the fuel supply.
>
> I could prove this by just putting in a rolled up paper napkin between
> the high voltage output and the 12 V. I could go forever and have no
> problem. But remove the paper and at some random time, maybe in a week
> or month, the car would shut down. I have since replaced the coil.
>
> This may or may not be your problem, but you have 6 coils.
>
> Paul
> 85 gas turbo
> 87 V6
> Long Island, NY
>
>
>
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> --- In peugeot-L@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Rodgers" <steve.rodgers@t...>
> wrote:
>> Hi, I'm almost at the end of my tether trying to figure out this
>> problem - and if anyone here can help me out I would really
> appreciate it.
>>
>> I've got a 98 406 coupe - 3.0 v6 manual. great car.
>>
>> bought it 3 years ago, and there has been an intermittent problem
>> which has been getting progressively worse.
>>
>> basically, from time to time the car will stop pumping fuel for a very
>> small amount of time - say a few seconds. really quite violent stop -
>> as if the fuel pump has halted. then it comes back fine.
>> the car has had about 60 hours of diagnostics at caffyns peugeot, and
>> they can't find any faults.
>>
>> it gets worse though, the problem gets more frequent - e.g. every few
>> minutes instead of every few days. then the car just stops completely.
>> usually when I'm driving at full-pelt down the motorway, resulting in
>> a freewheel into the hard-shoulder.
>>
>> once it's stopped it will not restart - again as if the fuel pump has
>> gone. I get the orange engine-management problem light coming on.
>>
>> I disconnect the battery - by removing postive terminal - alarm goes
>> off. reconnect battery - alarm still goes off. alarm will not turn off
>> at all now - even with key.
>> but, the engine works again. eventually after about 10 mins the alarm
>> will stop its noise - really very anonying.
>>
>> the problem is that it's an intermittent problem and that I cannot get
>> the car to the garage whenever it does happen, and they cannot
>> reproduce it.
>>
>> the ECU doesn't store any faults.
>>
>> could this be a faulty ECU? - that's my gut feeling.
>> has anyone experienced or heard of anything similar to this before?
>>
>> regards
>>
>> steve
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