Hi all,
Unfortunately my father encountered a rather unfortunate event while driving home in his 3008. On his way home he noticed a lack of power and stuttering from the car, pulled into a petrol station had a quick look around the engine but noticed nothing abnormal, temps were fine and he had enough fuel. About less than a mile down the road the engine emits a rather loud bang and a lot of smoke flowing out of the engine.
He pulled over and found that under the engine there was a fire that had started, luckily for him he had pulled over by a building site and 3 workmen came out with fire extinguishers to put out the fire, luckily the fire did not have enough time to spread and the only visible damage is the under tray that has melted and is now hanging.
He did call the RAC for recovery but after waiting 8 HOURS (Yes, they kept delaying the ETA for no apparent reason, perhaps low priority?) he had enough of waiting and decide to see if the car would run, to his surprise it did. He did observe various warning lights like check engine light and the stop sign but about a mile down the road the warning lights all went off and he managed to nurse the car home on the 3 mile drive back, he said he noticed nothing major apart from the sound of the plastic underside scraping along the ground.
The car (59 plate) was bought back in 2012 with 26k miles +/- from a Peugeot dealer, and has since had all services and MOTs done at Peugeot. It still yet to visit Peugeot as my father only made it home last night at about 22.30. My question is could this perhaps be the FAP? I've heard lots of stories about FAPs causing engine fires, the fire seems to have started at the bottom of the engine if this is of any help.
Sorry for the long winded story, I thought I'd give it some background to see if anyone could get an idea before he takes it to Peugeot tomorrow.
TIA.
Unfortunately my father encountered a rather unfortunate event while driving home in his 3008. On his way home he noticed a lack of power and stuttering from the car, pulled into a petrol station had a quick look around the engine but noticed nothing abnormal, temps were fine and he had enough fuel. About less than a mile down the road the engine emits a rather loud bang and a lot of smoke flowing out of the engine.
He pulled over and found that under the engine there was a fire that had started, luckily for him he had pulled over by a building site and 3 workmen came out with fire extinguishers to put out the fire, luckily the fire did not have enough time to spread and the only visible damage is the under tray that has melted and is now hanging.
He did call the RAC for recovery but after waiting 8 HOURS (Yes, they kept delaying the ETA for no apparent reason, perhaps low priority?) he had enough of waiting and decide to see if the car would run, to his surprise it did. He did observe various warning lights like check engine light and the stop sign but about a mile down the road the warning lights all went off and he managed to nurse the car home on the 3 mile drive back, he said he noticed nothing major apart from the sound of the plastic underside scraping along the ground.
The car (59 plate) was bought back in 2012 with 26k miles +/- from a Peugeot dealer, and has since had all services and MOTs done at Peugeot. It still yet to visit Peugeot as my father only made it home last night at about 22.30. My question is could this perhaps be the FAP? I've heard lots of stories about FAPs causing engine fires, the fire seems to have started at the bottom of the engine if this is of any help.
Sorry for the long winded story, I thought I'd give it some background to see if anyone could get an idea before he takes it to Peugeot tomorrow.
TIA.
