Ok, I'm not techy when it comes to cars. I like to find out bits and bats about cars and how they work as I'm pretty obcessed, although I can't afford to experience the true delights and at 21 still a little immature to be thinking about it.
I recently crashed my 206 and it's taken the insurance repairers one and a half months to fix, for which time I've been without a car. They delivered it back to me last thursday and immediately I noticed the speedo was dead.
I took it for a quick drive just make sure there was no imbalances in the suspension and everything was fine. When slowing down (3rd, 2nd, 1st gear range at about <30 mph) the engine cut out. Odd I thought. I check all the fuses and speedo sender cable and everything looked clean and tidy.
I rang them up and they offered to pick the car up and have a look at it for me and call in an auto electrician, at their expense of course as it was working fine before. They also offered to drop it back off the same day as I had been without a car all day. Good deal I thought.
So today, the same day I've got my car back. Speedo working. They said the cutting out was due to servicine, IE My problem and the speedo problem was a faulty speedo sensor, the one in the gearbox I presume.
Now... after a few miles, not one single cutout. My theory is the speedo sensor signal is sent from the gearbox to the ECU where the ECU calculates the fuelling and also controlls my speedo etc. I noticed my car was running very lean and wasn't smooth to drive. Now it's fine. All from changing the speedo sensor.
Would I be correct in thinking this? Assuming I'm correct, It's worrying that they could not have worked this out for themselves, or not even given it a proper road test. This place was a 20,000 sqaure foot warehouse dedicated to auto repair, very clean and full of nice people. I knew from the outset it wasn't a servicing problem as It was serviced in November and I've done little miles since then, and it's MOT was in January.
I'm happy it's all fixed though. 1.5 months wihtout a car is hell, esp when you live in the sticks like me. My bike has never been ridden so much!
I recently crashed my 206 and it's taken the insurance repairers one and a half months to fix, for which time I've been without a car. They delivered it back to me last thursday and immediately I noticed the speedo was dead.
I took it for a quick drive just make sure there was no imbalances in the suspension and everything was fine. When slowing down (3rd, 2nd, 1st gear range at about <30 mph) the engine cut out. Odd I thought. I check all the fuses and speedo sender cable and everything looked clean and tidy.
I rang them up and they offered to pick the car up and have a look at it for me and call in an auto electrician, at their expense of course as it was working fine before. They also offered to drop it back off the same day as I had been without a car all day. Good deal I thought.
So today, the same day I've got my car back. Speedo working. They said the cutting out was due to servicine, IE My problem and the speedo problem was a faulty speedo sensor, the one in the gearbox I presume.
Now... after a few miles, not one single cutout. My theory is the speedo sensor signal is sent from the gearbox to the ECU where the ECU calculates the fuelling and also controlls my speedo etc. I noticed my car was running very lean and wasn't smooth to drive. Now it's fine. All from changing the speedo sensor.
Would I be correct in thinking this? Assuming I'm correct, It's worrying that they could not have worked this out for themselves, or not even given it a proper road test. This place was a 20,000 sqaure foot warehouse dedicated to auto repair, very clean and full of nice people. I knew from the outset it wasn't a servicing problem as It was serviced in November and I've done little miles since then, and it's MOT was in January.
I'm happy it's all fixed though. 1.5 months wihtout a car is hell, esp when you live in the sticks like me. My bike has never been ridden so much!
