Peugeot 306 (1993 - 2001) - 99 2.0 Worn diesel injectors??

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Thu 30 Apr 2009 14:30
99 2.0 Worn diesel injectors?? - fraggle78
I had a new cambelt and full service approx 1 month ago. I immediately noticed that my car on every trip at some point would not run smoothly (hard to explain felt a bit like being in 5th gear but only doing 30mph, a bit sluggish and louder engine or being blustered by a head-on wind).

Took it back to garage as I thought that maybe they had replaced the timing belt wrong. After 3 days and they told me that possibly the diesel injectors were on there way out or the fuel pump. They had attached it to a Peugeot diagnostics kit (borrowed as not a main dealer) and that showed high fluctuations in revs over 2000rpm. To fix would cost the best part of £1000 and wouldn't be worth it, however I don't have any of the other symptoms of diesel injector failure ie black smoke, problems starting.

I have put some cleanser in the tank and have been doing around 300 miles per week ever since and it seems to have got a lot better. So my question is do I believe the garage and scrap my car (don't really want to as it has only done 90,000) or could it just possibly be dirt in the system perhaps from when they changed the filters? I really don't know what to do as apart ffrom this the car is immaculate.

Any thoughts on what else it could be?

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 30/04/2009 at 14:42

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Thu 30 Apr 2009 14:35
99 2 Worn diesel injectors?? - jc2
Contact your local diesel specialist-injectors can be serviced or exchanged.
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Thu 30 Apr 2009 15:14
99 2 Worn diesel injectors?? - dagenham car center
i take it,it was ok before cambelt change?
if so they have done somthing wrong,take it elsewhere,if nothing else available then take it peugeot,at least get one 2nd opinion.
whereabouts are you,i might be able to recomend someone.
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Thu 30 Apr 2009 15:27
99 2 Worn diesel injectors?? - fraggle78
Yes it was fine before the change. I went to our local peugeot garage ( I am in Presteigne Powys not far from Hereford) but they weren't very helpful and wanted £85 just to hook it to their computer to be possibly told the same thing.

I have been going to the same garage for 8 years and they are normally very good but I too thought it was too much of a coincidence but not a lot I could do about it. I also believe it was a new boy that did it as the regular one was on holiday so maybe he had got some dirt in it.
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