Hi
Got a call from the car owner that it had leaked out fuel and stopped att a intersection.
When I got there a huge puddle on road. And the quick connector (two green tabs kind) had got off from the fuel rail.
After erazing the fault codes for the ignition coils, present - it started.
Got it home and checked the connection parts - no failing parts. The connector locks on firmly onto the fuel rail.
Looked for fuel pressure readings in OBD2, but couldnt find any.
The only thing done to the engine was by me - 5000 km ago, I changed timing belt, due to no info if it been done before or when. So, I cannot imagine that if I didnt get the connector back properly, it would hold on this long??
All I can see on the connector, is evidence of someone been there with a screw driver - I use the proper pliers for the connectors, and they dont leave a mark.
Any ideas to what happened?
K4M-866 engine fuel line connector to fuel rail popped off
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Orchid70
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Re: K4M-866 engine fuel line connector to fuel rail popped off
Somebody tampering with it I guess but they'll deny it. 
I had a customer who told me his car wouldn't start, one with ignition points that had been assembled wrong, he swore black was white that it had just happened nobody had been under the bonnet but it was impossible that it could have ever run the way it was assembled.
I had a customer who told me his car wouldn't start, one with ignition points that had been assembled wrong, he swore black was white that it had just happened nobody had been under the bonnet but it was impossible that it could have ever run the way it was assembled.Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. (Albert Einstein)
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Orchid70
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Re: K4M-866 engine fuel line connector to fuel rail popped off
So, no one else has been on the engine.
BUT: when we talked when they picked up the car, with the owner sitting in the car with drivers door open - I notised fresh marks on the B pilar and on the opposite location, on the door. Under and around the door lock. Paint was gone in long scratch marks on the B pilar and dents on the opposite place in the door! Someone has broken into the cabin.
The car is used by a whole family. So even if the people who came to collect it didnt know when this could have happened - the daughter most likely does. She is the one who drove mothers one family owned Volvo 945 from 1988 to its death, when they finelly called us - every cylinder had hydro lock with water, from (in the beginning) leaking head gasket. They kept filling it with water, most likely too late. Becuase it was granmothers car, it needed to be saved, so we changed the engine....
How ever - this is something new. Stealing petrol through the engine bay??? I know some cars are almost impossible to get down to fuel tank with a hose through the filler neck - could not do it on the Citroen C4 from 2011 we have. Needed to empty the tank and had to do it through the pipes in engine bay.
BUT: when we talked when they picked up the car, with the owner sitting in the car with drivers door open - I notised fresh marks on the B pilar and on the opposite location, on the door. Under and around the door lock. Paint was gone in long scratch marks on the B pilar and dents on the opposite place in the door! Someone has broken into the cabin.
The car is used by a whole family. So even if the people who came to collect it didnt know when this could have happened - the daughter most likely does. She is the one who drove mothers one family owned Volvo 945 from 1988 to its death, when they finelly called us - every cylinder had hydro lock with water, from (in the beginning) leaking head gasket. They kept filling it with water, most likely too late. Becuase it was granmothers car, it needed to be saved, so we changed the engine....
How ever - this is something new. Stealing petrol through the engine bay??? I know some cars are almost impossible to get down to fuel tank with a hose through the filler neck - could not do it on the Citroen C4 from 2011 we have. Needed to empty the tank and had to do it through the pipes in engine bay.