Flat starter battery on the van

I was out in my self-build one day, to see a sparky I delivered to a lot for some advice on how to integrate the electrics he took a look and said don't, keep them separate much fewer complications, on the way home the phone rang and I pulled into a layby, call done I turned the key and it just churned away, I got recovered by Brittania to a garage I know turned out to be the crank sensor, the took off the pulley, pulled off the plastic replaceable cover and did the sensor, new cover fitted, all good, went on a trip around Scotland and I could smell hot oil so I pulled over and the pulley was cutting into the plastic cam chain cover, crap design two pieces with three spot welds and should be replaced they didn't, recovery again to the same garage to sort it, after I sold it the buyer rang after a couple of months the new pulley had done the exact same thing, this was on an 07 Citroen Relay which has the Ford Puma engine.
 
wildebus said:
no ideal.

1) scan to see codes
2) note them
3) clear them (or try to anyway)
4) back to 1
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Yes, all I saw were £ signs David so I took my eye off the ball, but it still needs to be recovered I suspect and they will scan it too to see the codes for themselves.
 
be worth having a trawl on the web for the codes to get some pointers.
I did that with my car after I got an dash error message following a service a couple of years ago and engine became hard to start. Found suggestion for fault, part needed and how to fit. down to motor factors, under a tenner for the part and 5 minutes to fit and all good :)
 
Not sure I'm up to fitting parts anymore David, I'll leave it to the garage now, pray and just take the hit.
 
wildebus said:
least you might get a flavour of what might be needed?
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Well, it had to happen, the brain cell woke up & I recalled buying and OBD2 reader for the last van, so I crawled down and plugged it in, It had several pages of stored faults so I just cleared those and re-scanned to get these.

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I wouldn't discount the padlock thing as being a root cause. If an immobliser is stopping signals being sent to the fuel pump or whatever, the ECU that controls/monitors the fuel side might just see that as a fault? A generic code reader is unlikely to know about the immobiliser on a particular make. (I remember when I had an ABS problem and dash light was on, my Code Reader found no ABS issues).

When you speak to the garage, remember to tell them you saw that come up.
 
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