Guest SimonIG10 Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Hi all. decided to join as seem to have the odd issues with my Wife's car and hope for some technical advice. We have had our 52 plate C3 1.4 petrol for a few years now. She really likes it and it is a nice spacious car. Overall we have had few problems with it compared to a lot of people. We has an engine management light issue which turned out to be a faulty fuel injector which I replaced (dont listen to dealers that say you need to swap the complete set for many £s). I had success with a cheap code reader that you plug into the glove box. Good for analysing the issue we had and clearing the error.Other than that we have just had an on/off irritating airbag light issue and have posted on the technical forum. It cruises through its MOT each year and on the whole is reliable. We also recently changed the battery as it struggled to start on cold mornings and used to reset the clock etc. Through all the bad weather it has started fine.As a car I find it a little underpowered and long geared. It is nice on the motorway but needs a fair bit of welly around town. We used to have an old Clio 1.2 and that was nippier around town but poor on the motorway or on long journeys. I think the clutch is going on ours as it is very high up on the travel so suspect this will be the next fix but bit much for me. Quote
Guest womble Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Can I ask which code reader you are using, I am after one myself for a berlingo 2.0hdi and need one that I know is going to work first time. Quote
Guest SimonIG10 Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 Hi, this is the one I used on the C3. Cant remember if this was the guy I bought it from but if you put in U480 as an Ebay search there are a lot of vendors............http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LATEST-UNIVERSAL-CAR-FAULT-CODE-READER-U480-OBD2-UK-/110435257313?pt=UK_Diagnostic_Tools_Equipment&hash=item19b6744be1 It does say "Diesel Cars in Europe made for sale 2004 onwards" so be careful Quote
Guest womble Posted January 17, 2011 Posted January 17, 2011 It does say "Diesel Cars in Europe made for sale 2004 onwards" so be carefulThanks for the info, that is what is concerning me, don't want to buy one only to find that it will not "talk" to my motor. A mate of mine in the trade is going to lend me a Sealey VS8700 to try, if this works then I will possibly buy it, bit more than I really wanted to spend but if it does the job right then so be it!!! Quote
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