LADY BROKEN DOWN

HI ALL,Came across a very smart looking camper yesterday
p reg,unfortunatly it had broken down nr Scunthorpe engine
light came on and the van stopped,spoke to the very nice
lady who was just making a pot of tea (benifits of a camper)
while she waited for the AA,hope she got going again ok

OOOOPS , Me smells cambelt gone !! Hope not

That's a pretty wild stab in the dark there fella!

No it was not that,she said it had done it
before and allways restarted after a few mins

My guess would be the dreaded VSS error

unfortunatly I was in the missus car,and that
does not have a pencil in it let alone tools,
so I wasnt able to poke about,lesson to be
learned get the problem sorted before it stops
altogether,was a really tidy van

The vss error causes power loss after you cruise at about 50mph upwards for a good length of time.

All of a sudden you lose all power and it won't drive anywhere.

Then after a few minutes they run OK again.

I feel it has something to do with the trim tables on the ecu's software. It's trying to tune for fuel economy, but because the VSS isn't working the ECU see's 0 mph. So it makes the whole trim table totally lean to the point where all the power dies.

It's one of those faults that's reared its head on this forum 4 or 5 times now, and only though coincidence was the true cause actually discovered  

Wasn't it only on 1.3's though - a P reg would be a 998, methinks.

Don't know, the 993cc does have a VSS sensor though, how a faulty VSS sensor effects 993cc running issues I do not know.

I bow to your experience Matt , did not realise it was a Hijet in trouble . I quite often make stabs in the dark , thats why I walk with a limp . 


Cheers

Eddie

A limp what?

O Logi , You are awful , But I like you .