Sorry for the essay but I’m trying my hardest trying to find out more about this pissing van and it’s faults!!
Please help
This van has been an ongoing problem for a couple of weeks now, I’m almost ready for this dysfunctional relationship to end if I can’t solve this cutting out problem.
It’s a 57-reg 2.2 tdci LWB FWD transit and the trouble started before Xmas with it sometimes not turning over, when it wouldn’t start the glow plug coil light wouldn’t illuminate on the dash... and then when the light appeared it would start no problem.
It then escalated to randomly cutting out whilst stationary at traffic lights or in slow moving traffic.
Then it started cutting out whilst travelling at speed and at first came straight back to life when it did cut out, nowadays though there’s a good couple of seconds before it comes back to life.
What I did notice though was that
JUST AS THE VAN WAS CUTTING OUT, there was a loud clunk/click from the relay under the seat and then it’d click again as the van came back to life.
Faulty relay maybe?
1.) It was suggested I should start with the charging rate of the batteries and wether they are charging equally under load
Turns out they are both charging great at 14.5v.
2.) The ignition switch was also suggested so I changed that
No change, problem still exists
3.) The next thing that was suggested was the ignition relay, I have another coming sometime this week which fingers crossed solves the problem
But my question is this....
What else could it possibly be if it’s not the relay and which route should I take?
Any advice or suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Regards
Gary
