406 2.2 hdi not firing

[amron]

Hi have finally got car back and everthing seems ok fingers crossed.
Somehow got a call from a guy thats works on the system that I have and after doing the injection run off tests, cleaning all relays plugs etc, it seems that the fuel had contamination in it. Tank and pump cleaned out new filters and conditioners added. The diesel was a milky brown colour and smelt a bit like paint thinners and the filter was brown, the guy said did I let my tank run down and then fill to top I said no I usually add £25 at a time he explained that everytime I opened the fuel cap a squirt of the Eloys fuel additive was added so technically I was adding about 4 squirts to every tank full whereas if I let car go to 1/4 tank then fill up I would only be adding 1 squirt, so it looks like fuel tank was having a build up of the additive which did show up on the diagnositcs as a fault with the additive.
Anyway fingers crossed that this corrects it, took it a good run and it seemed fine so I live in hope LOL

Wish I had found this site and others before as the info is fantastic
Much appreciated
Norma

[steve_earwig]

Eh? You gotta love that eolys stuff Next it'll be empty and you'll be getting anti-pollution warnings (something to watch for). I suppose that means the days of 25 quids worth at a time are over for you (Dear Mr Bankmanager...)

Glad you got to the bottom of it anyway.

[Welly]

Mmm, weird - you know before the hacking there was a lovely thread here about how the eolys system worked I think "Davva 2004" found it?

The way I remember was that when the tank got down to 1/4 it then injected a 'squirt' and this would lead to higher combustion temps to burn off the FAP residues. Apparently the only indication to signify this was going on was that the heated door mirrors would come on

I suppose if you keep hovvering around the 1/4 mark you could get too many squirts?

There's other stuff too like an extended 'Italian tune up' to force a regeneration?

Tbh the whole FAP system is a bit of a mistery (or is that misery)

Hope the car stays well now fella

[steve_earwig]

Fella?

[Welly]

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