Xantia Cutting Out While Driving???
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Xantia Cutting Out While Driving???
Has anyone had the experience of a xant cutting out unexpectedly while driving? The wife was out last night and said the car just cut out and died. At first blamed the wifes driving as it has never happened to me, but just in case does anyone have an idea what could have caused this to happen?
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Does the cut-out last for long? There is almost certainly no connection but way back there was an ECU freak that caused occasional very short-term but very scary engine cutouts. Yellow ECU light on for a fraction; revs dropping to zero on the rev counter for the same fraction; total power loss; back to normal in a second or so.
Mine went away after a service years ago. My colleague's was still around when she gave up and sold hers.
Question - were there any warning lights on?
Mine went away after a service years ago. My colleague's was still around when she gave up and sold hers.
Question - were there any warning lights on?
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Panjandrum</i>
Does the cut-out last for long? There is almost certainly no connection but way back there was an ECU freak that caused occasional very short-term but very scary engine cutouts. Yellow ECU light on for a fraction; revs dropping to zero on the rev counter for the same fraction; total power loss; back to normal in a second or so.
Mine went away after a service years ago. My colleague's was still around when she gave up and sold hers.
Question - were there any warning lights on?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">That's the known behaviour of a C5 [8D]
Does the cut-out last for long? There is almost certainly no connection but way back there was an ECU freak that caused occasional very short-term but very scary engine cutouts. Yellow ECU light on for a fraction; revs dropping to zero on the rev counter for the same fraction; total power loss; back to normal in a second or so.
Mine went away after a service years ago. My colleague's was still around when she gave up and sold hers.
Question - were there any warning lights on?
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">That's the known behaviour of a C5 [8D]
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My 97 TD started cutting out a couple of years ago. First the odd glitch, then quickly to the point of undriveability. It went in and out of the local main dealer (who were actually fairly competent, though I don't use them any more) several times and I ended up with stroppy letters from the AA threatening not to rescue me any more. Eventually tracked down, if that's the right word, to the electronic immobiliser gubbins under the tamper-proof cover on the pump. Replaced at vast expense (did the cam belt and the rest at the same time...). Fine ever since, though I've now left the immobiliser keypad disconnected just to remove one layer of complexity.
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You may have a airlock in the tank. Use to happen on my old Sierra turbo-diesel, all I did was drill a small hole (a very small one) in the filler cap and the problem stopped (I think that the tank vent pipe was blocked) because of me drilling the hole it allowed air in to compensate the fuel being used. Hope this helps.
Its been mentioned - Air in the fuel system.
My NA 1.9D had the same problems - after standing when hot for 10 mins would often refuse to start without repriming the diesel circuit, and after a longish motorway run would cut out when you slowed down. Nessesitated the wearing of brown pants to avoid people staring too much.
I cured mine by:
Renewing the rubber pipework in the fuel circuit under the bonet (£20)
Renewing the fuel filter
Lobing a huge amount of silicone on a little connector under the fuel pump which had gone brittle with age.
Its normal for fuel tanks to suck a little, if your getting deformity or if its sucking in aur a lot try running with one of those tempory caps for a while and see if it improves - though they will fail an MOT test.
My NA 1.9D had the same problems - after standing when hot for 10 mins would often refuse to start without repriming the diesel circuit, and after a longish motorway run would cut out when you slowed down. Nessesitated the wearing of brown pants to avoid people staring too much.
I cured mine by:
Renewing the rubber pipework in the fuel circuit under the bonet (£20)
Renewing the fuel filter
Lobing a huge amount of silicone on a little connector under the fuel pump which had gone brittle with age.
Its normal for fuel tanks to suck a little, if your getting deformity or if its sucking in aur a lot try running with one of those tempory caps for a while and see if it improves - though they will fail an MOT test.