Blackcapbob
New Member
Hello Guys and Gals, Having changed the thermostat on my wife's RCZ earlier this month and conducted a BSI reset all the lingering fault codes disappeared and that was my first installment of life under the bonnet of an RCZ completed.
3 days ago she returned from work parked on the drive which is a god send. She intended to go to the gym, 10 minutes later she returned to her car and it wouldn't start, my second installment of Life under the bonnet of an RCZ was / is underway. On turning the key it made a solitary click which sounded like it was coming from the starter motor, I checked the battery, it was reading 12.4v which I have charged and is now appears healthier at over 13.1v in a cold garage, replaced the battery and the same single click was heard, in my Hillman Imp days that ment knackered starter motor fast forward 40 years and it means much much more.
My iCarsoft diagnostic tool says coherence fault energising the starter, car electrics are not my forte so a car electrician with a laptop has been and scanned the car, he came up with fault codes P1062 and P1067 we have been able to establish with grazed knuckles that the VVT Solenoid has an open circuit now I thought that the Peugeot engineers were having as laugh with the 6 branched thermostat but the location of the VVT solenoid is off the charts.
With the use of a mirror and torch the nut locating the solenoid was located T27 a bit every one has !!! was found and with the dexterity of a gynecologist the bolt has been loosened and fished out from its recess, having read previous post on here all that is needed is a backwards and forwards rocking motion and the solenoid slides out. Now my hands are sore and bruised and the solenoid remains stuck fast.
Can some kind sole on here tell me, could the solenoid be held in somehow internally or is it 7 years of mating with the engine makes it reluctant to release its grip and that the backwards forwards action will eventually release its grip...........................oh to have kids hands with the strength of Rambo.
Take care all, as before any advise is gratefully received. Cheer's Bob
3 days ago she returned from work parked on the drive which is a god send. She intended to go to the gym, 10 minutes later she returned to her car and it wouldn't start, my second installment of Life under the bonnet of an RCZ was / is underway. On turning the key it made a solitary click which sounded like it was coming from the starter motor, I checked the battery, it was reading 12.4v which I have charged and is now appears healthier at over 13.1v in a cold garage, replaced the battery and the same single click was heard, in my Hillman Imp days that ment knackered starter motor fast forward 40 years and it means much much more.
My iCarsoft diagnostic tool says coherence fault energising the starter, car electrics are not my forte so a car electrician with a laptop has been and scanned the car, he came up with fault codes P1062 and P1067 we have been able to establish with grazed knuckles that the VVT Solenoid has an open circuit now I thought that the Peugeot engineers were having as laugh with the 6 branched thermostat but the location of the VVT solenoid is off the charts.
With the use of a mirror and torch the nut locating the solenoid was located T27 a bit every one has !!! was found and with the dexterity of a gynecologist the bolt has been loosened and fished out from its recess, having read previous post on here all that is needed is a backwards and forwards rocking motion and the solenoid slides out. Now my hands are sore and bruised and the solenoid remains stuck fast.
Can some kind sole on here tell me, could the solenoid be held in somehow internally or is it 7 years of mating with the engine makes it reluctant to release its grip and that the backwards forwards action will eventually release its grip...........................oh to have kids hands with the strength of Rambo.
Take care all, as before any advise is gratefully received. Cheer's Bob