Hi,
Just wondered whether anyone has any ideas on a very intermittent problem I've had. My 207 1.6 HDi suffered a sudden loss of engine power on a dual carriageway today. The car built up speed to 70mph as normal from the slip road and then suddenly the engine started "shuddering" and the car lost speed down to about 45mph. I found the engine ran almost normally but a bit rough to about 1800 RPM but any attempt to increase engine revs by pressing the accelerator would cause the engine to run worse and road speed would decrease further. This problem has happened three times in about 14 months so I suspect if I visit the dealer they may not find the problem. On all three occasions it's happened the first time I build up to "motorway" speed at the start of a journey and obviously it's not pleasant having the car loose power on a busy dual carriageway in rush hour. I only use this vehicle for commuting to work these days and 80% of the 24 mile journey is at 70 mph.
I did look at the heads up display fault log during the fault and nothing was showing on the fault log page. After about ten minutes the fault cleared (as it did on the two previous occasions) and normal engine power returned. I have wondered when this happened before whether it's related to the DPF cleaning itself but surely that happens without causing anything quite so noticeable ? The car is year 2011 with 45K miles (full service history). It has had a replacement engine bay wiring loom fitted (won't go into that !!!!) but I'm 99% sure the first instance of this fault was before that disaster happened. Any ideas ?
Just wondered whether anyone has any ideas on a very intermittent problem I've had. My 207 1.6 HDi suffered a sudden loss of engine power on a dual carriageway today. The car built up speed to 70mph as normal from the slip road and then suddenly the engine started "shuddering" and the car lost speed down to about 45mph. I found the engine ran almost normally but a bit rough to about 1800 RPM but any attempt to increase engine revs by pressing the accelerator would cause the engine to run worse and road speed would decrease further. This problem has happened three times in about 14 months so I suspect if I visit the dealer they may not find the problem. On all three occasions it's happened the first time I build up to "motorway" speed at the start of a journey and obviously it's not pleasant having the car loose power on a busy dual carriageway in rush hour. I only use this vehicle for commuting to work these days and 80% of the 24 mile journey is at 70 mph.
I did look at the heads up display fault log during the fault and nothing was showing on the fault log page. After about ten minutes the fault cleared (as it did on the two previous occasions) and normal engine power returned. I have wondered when this happened before whether it's related to the DPF cleaning itself but surely that happens without causing anything quite so noticeable ? The car is year 2011 with 45K miles (full service history). It has had a replacement engine bay wiring loom fitted (won't go into that !!!!) but I'm 99% sure the first instance of this fault was before that disaster happened. Any ideas ?
. My 207 has been serviced at intervals of 12,500 miles as per the service indicator on the dash. That works out to about one service per 12 or 13 months.
