- Jan 10, 2013
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Due to leave UK on Wednesday for 2 months in Spain when I realised that we would need an MOT whilst we were away. Took van in this morning for it's early MOT - passed, no advisories. Great stuff. 
On the way back van started misfiring, Check Engine Fault light came on and van went into limp mode. This happened about 3 weeks ago and we had taken it into the garage who reset the fault and suspected dirty fuel so he put 2 bottles of Forte Diesel treatment in and we filled it up with Shell V(ery expensive!) power diesel and gave it a good run out - all seemed good. Took van back into garage this morning and the diagnostics came up with P0268 fault pointing to injector valve 3. CEF light will go out if we turn engine off and restart 3 or 4 times, but then comes on again within a few miles. The really scary bit is when it goes into limp mode as we can't even get up a slight hill easily. Got it booked into a specialist injector and diesel pump garage on Tuesday with the possibility that they will have to replace the faulty injector. Just hope they can get to it easily as it's an A class motorhome with a bonnet the size of a letterbox. Don't know when we'll get away now and, although we have extended Gold warranty (3rd party) on the van I can't get a definitive answer from them as to whether this is covered. They say they have to speak to garage first so we may end up with a not insignificant bill. Anyone had the same problem, and does anyone know roughly what the bill is likely to be? Am a bit dischuffed to say the least.
Oh, and it's a Pilote Explorateur G742.
On the way back van started misfiring, Check Engine Fault light came on and van went into limp mode. This happened about 3 weeks ago and we had taken it into the garage who reset the fault and suspected dirty fuel so he put 2 bottles of Forte Diesel treatment in and we filled it up with Shell V(ery expensive!) power diesel and gave it a good run out - all seemed good. Took van back into garage this morning and the diagnostics came up with P0268 fault pointing to injector valve 3. CEF light will go out if we turn engine off and restart 3 or 4 times, but then comes on again within a few miles. The really scary bit is when it goes into limp mode as we can't even get up a slight hill easily. Got it booked into a specialist injector and diesel pump garage on Tuesday with the possibility that they will have to replace the faulty injector. Just hope they can get to it easily as it's an A class motorhome with a bonnet the size of a letterbox. Don't know when we'll get away now and, although we have extended Gold warranty (3rd party) on the van I can't get a definitive answer from them as to whether this is covered. They say they have to speak to garage first so we may end up with a not insignificant bill. Anyone had the same problem, and does anyone know roughly what the bill is likely to be? Am a bit dischuffed to say the least. Oh, and it's a Pilote Explorateur G742.
Mine was defiantly the turbo grey waste deliminator off valve that was seized. Small world!.