OldAgeTravellers
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Hi @Deneb,
Thanks for the above.
As you say finding how to disassemble the connector in such a confined space is practically impossible so it would need to be cut off. So the vehicle is unusable until a replacement is found.
I suspect that it is a broken wire as by clamping it up so the weight of the loom is not hanging on the wires as they enter the plug it has made the connection, but for how long with the movement of the vehicle. Unfortunately this sensor cable combines with the other two CAT sensors into one bundle which then enters an ever increasing bundle towards the ECU and one very large plug as far as I can see.
The wires are all green but do have the faintest trace of a coloured line on them which is a bonus if I do have to cut it off.
I suspect that there is a repair kit as I am sure I am not the only person to experience this. Although the cost of a repair does not seem to be a deciding issue nowadays with labour charges as they are in dealerships. We have heard above that people have been charged £500 upwards for this problem. The sensor was an exorbitant €72 and with a pit or hoist the job would have taken a maximum of ten minutes which would include walking to the spares department so even €150 would be unreasonable.
Once I had bought the MultiEcuScan the diagnosis was just a few minutes and the fix would be a similar time with the correct spares or tools. My problem is an €80 round trip to get spares and always it would require being ordered in and that is if I know the part number. At the Fiat garage in Narbonne even having the part number was no use. There is a breakers i know of 80km round trip the other way in Carcassonne so I will try there on the off-chance they have a Ducato.
What I was really hoping for was that one of the Mechanics (Technicians now) on here, would look at my picture and say "Oh that is an XYZ plug you just push this little button and it opens up to change the wires". I am ever the optomist!
Vary many thanks to you and everybody else who has participated in this saga and given fantastic support.
Oh well better get back out to the van to do a few more mods while I can't use it for touring. But even with very bright sun it is still very cold here 14 deg but a biting North wind.
Steve
Thanks for the above.
As you say finding how to disassemble the connector in such a confined space is practically impossible so it would need to be cut off. So the vehicle is unusable until a replacement is found.
I suspect that it is a broken wire as by clamping it up so the weight of the loom is not hanging on the wires as they enter the plug it has made the connection, but for how long with the movement of the vehicle. Unfortunately this sensor cable combines with the other two CAT sensors into one bundle which then enters an ever increasing bundle towards the ECU and one very large plug as far as I can see.
The wires are all green but do have the faintest trace of a coloured line on them which is a bonus if I do have to cut it off.
I suspect that there is a repair kit as I am sure I am not the only person to experience this. Although the cost of a repair does not seem to be a deciding issue nowadays with labour charges as they are in dealerships. We have heard above that people have been charged £500 upwards for this problem. The sensor was an exorbitant €72 and with a pit or hoist the job would have taken a maximum of ten minutes which would include walking to the spares department so even €150 would be unreasonable.
Once I had bought the MultiEcuScan the diagnosis was just a few minutes and the fix would be a similar time with the correct spares or tools. My problem is an €80 round trip to get spares and always it would require being ordered in and that is if I know the part number. At the Fiat garage in Narbonne even having the part number was no use. There is a breakers i know of 80km round trip the other way in Carcassonne so I will try there on the off-chance they have a Ducato.
What I was really hoping for was that one of the Mechanics (Technicians now) on here, would look at my picture and say "Oh that is an XYZ plug you just push this little button and it opens up to change the wires". I am ever the optomist!
Vary many thanks to you and everybody else who has participated in this saga and given fantastic support.
Oh well better get back out to the van to do a few more mods while I can't use it for touring. But even with very bright sun it is still very cold here 14 deg but a biting North wind.
Steve