My wife is 200 miles away juggling with a poorly mother and her dad in hospital. Yesterday evening she rang me to say that there was a pollution system fault warning and that the car had lost power. She had spent 3 hours trundling round in Leeds/Bradfrod traffic so I assumed DPF like my C5 does sometimes. She took it out last night for a 30 minute run along a decent road, but warning didn't go away. Very down on power.
A bit more telephone dignostics, car started absolutely fine this morning. Warning still there. After a 5 mile run she stopped in a layby and called me. Turns out it won't rev above 2800 even in neutral in a layby, I can hear over the phone it is as if it was hitting the rev limiter, but at 2800 not 4500+.
It's a 57 plate 1.4 hdi 70, manual, Cool, bog standard properly serviced and so on,c 55k miles on it. No recent work or anything unusual until last night. LIves on a mix of long and short trips so its not just a city car.
I don't have the handbook or a manual to hand, and don't really know the 1.4 (give me an XUD and I'm fine), and I can't get up there until the weekend. She has it booked in to a local dealer in Bradford (Evans Halshaw) for tomorrow morning.
In the meantime:
- any ideas?
does it have a 'limp home mode' ?
if so can it easily be reset following simple instructions I could read out over the phone?
even with revs limited it should cruise at 60+ in 5th. Is there a risk in driving it 200 miles home wih the warning showing?
(the handbook says "take to dealer as soon as possible, which is open to many interpretations)