Any Vauxhall experts here

[Digital2011]

Corsa 1.3 cdti 57 help needed

 

Hi guyz

 

First this is long story but i am trying to keep it short

 

I need help with my diesel corsa life 5 door, i bought this car about two months ago, after driving i felt engine has little response before turbo kicks in and also felt slight engine vibrate.

 

I thought it might need serving and may be maf sensor cleaning, i cleaned maf with carb cleaner and changed air filter, oil filter, oil and fuel filter and also steam cleaned the engine.

 

After that while driving it felt like turbo not kicking in properly (little bit hesitation), i took it to the garage the guy said its timing chain need replacing.

 

I was not satisfied so took it to another garage been told it might be egr.

 

Cleaned egr upper part with carb cleaner and sand the egr sensor plate with very fine sand paper.

 

But after that the car gone more worse it start make knocking sound and engine vibrated heavily.

 

Took the car for diagnostic and found out egr stuck open and been advised to use forte diesel cleaner and long run on motorway which i did and it made little bit difference the knocking sound stopped.

 

I still have very bad vibration it only happens when i slightly put foot down on pedal, even if i am going in 5th gear if i take foot off and then slightly rev it vibrates.

 

When car is parked and engine is start if i rev 1000 it starts vibrates and continue vibrates at that speed

 

Before cleaning egr if i rev between 1500 to 2000 it was vibrating slightly (sometimes) and now it has heavy vibration at 1000.

 

Been to many mechanics they all told me different thing some say its injector some say timing chain and some may be egr or maf.

 

I am totally stumped on this i am suspecting its either egr or maf which i cleaned. There no engine lights on the dash

 

Any help would be much appreciated or any mobile vauxhall expert from sheffield who could look into my car.

 

 

Thanks

[geared]

It's the EGR valve and you can't fix it with carb cleaner or a bottle of Forte.

[alchresearch]

Disconnect the MAF sensor. You'll get an engine warning light but (hopefully) it won't go into limp mode.

 

If the car drives OK after this then its most likely your EGR valve.

 

You can get blanking plates which cure the problem. This is a common issue on the 1.6 DW10ATED diesel engine in the Peugeot 307 and 407. Many owners have blanked their off and I've done three myself.

 

Like geared says, you can't fix this with cleaners.

[denlin]

Get a Peugeot:hihi::hihi:

[Digital2011]

I know that's why it gone worse after cleaning but bottle of forte made a difference knocking stopped

 

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Disconnect the MAF sensor. You'll get an engine warning light but (hopefully) it won't go into limp mode.

 

If the car drives OK after this then its most likely your EGR valve.

 

You can get blanking plates which cure the problem. This is a common issue on the 1.6 DW10ATED diesel engine in the Peugeot 307 and 407. Many owners have blanked their off and I've done three myself.

 

Like geared says, you can't fix this with cleaners.

 

I disconnected maf but it did not make any difference even no eml light

[geared]

Did you have an eml light before?

 

If a previous code check told you the EGR valve was stuck open, and all you did was spray it with carb cleaner and put Forte in the tank then the EGR valve is still at fault.

 

You never did anything to fix the initial problem, it's still there!

[Digital2011]

Did you have an eml light before?

 

If a previous code check told you the EGR valve was stuck open, and all you did was spray it with carb cleaner and put Forte in the tank then the EGR valve is still at fault.

 

You never did anything to fix the initial problem, it's still there!

 

There no EML light showing any fault before or after, diagnostic tool did find stored faults one egr stuck open one related to turbo but he cleared those faults.

 

I sprayed carb cleaner on maf and on egr the strange thing is odometer does not show any thing even if i take off egr connector or maf connector, although all lights working on odometer and disappear when engine fires up. I discussed with the mechanic and he told me that sometimes maf fault does appear on corsas and its normal but can be detected with diagnostic tool

[Miss_S_83]

I am no good at solving car problems but I have a 1.3 cdti corsa (05 plate) and I had vibration that was either slight, bad or not there at all... this went on for a good year (by this point I had been told it was the clutch/flywheel etc that needed changing).... Anyhow, a few days before I was going to get that booked in to be done (by then it had started going into limp mode a lot, again this seemed to be intermittent and at the time we were on the last leg of a journey home from holiday and it had been lagging most of the way), the car broke down. The timing chain had gone, thus ruining the engine and costing £1200 in repairs. That was just for the timing chain/engine , not the clutch and flywheel. The mechanic told me the vibration from the flywheel has most likely rattled it off (?). And last month, 50 weeks after having it replaced, yet again we were on holiday and the timing chain started to make a funny noise, got AA to it, told not to drive it, towed home for 9 hours... another £475 to get it replaced as the chain it was replaced with last year was (in this mechanics opinion), probably the right part for the car but a poor fit, far too tight which is how it had started to 'go' again after less than a year and has already caused a fair bit of mess- but luckily not completely broke again- he realised that was probably the cause when he ordered a chain from a supplier and it was a poor fit (as described above)- so got one from a different supplier which fit as it should have. £1700 of repairs just on timing chain problems/ damage caused by timing chain problems!

 

More than the car is probably even worth by now but still...

 

Point of my story is, if it's the timing chain, get it fixed now!!!!!!

 

Maybe nothing similar... maybe nothing to do with the chain but I wouldn't keep driving it and risking it, get it to someone to have a proper look! The mechanic who sorted mine out the 2nd time round is an independent diesel engine specialist who works from what I presume is his family home. Not Sheffield though. If you want his number PM me.

[Digital2011]

I am no good at solving car problems but I have a 1.3 cdti corsa (05 plate) and I had vibration that was either slight, bad or not there at all... this went on for a good year (by this point I had been told it was the clutch/flywheel etc that needed changing).... Anyhow, a few days before I was going to get that booked in to be done (by then it had started going into limp mode a lot, again this seemed to be intermittent and at the time we were on the last leg of a journey home from holiday and it had been lagging most of the way), the car broke down. The timing chain had gone, thus ruining the engine and costing £1200 in repairs. That was just for the timing chain/engine , not the clutch and flywheel. The mechanic told me the vibration from the flywheel has most likely rattled it off (?). And last month, 50 weeks after having it replaced, yet again we were on holiday and the timing chain started to make a funny noise, got AA to it, told not to drive it, towed home for 9 hours... another £475 to get it replaced as the chain it was replaced with last year was (in this mechanics opinion), probably the right part for the car but a poor fit, far too tight which is how it had started to 'go' again after less than a year and has already caused a fair bit of mess- but luckily not completely broke again- he realised that was probably the cause when he ordered a chain from a supplier and it was a poor fit (as described above)- so got one from a different supplier which fit as it should have. £1700 of repairs just on timing chain problems/ damage caused by timing chain problems!

 

More than the car is probably even worth by now but still...

 

Point of my story is, if it's the timing chain, get it fixed now!!!!!!

 

Maybe nothing similar... maybe nothing to do with the chain but I wouldn't keep driving it and risking it, get it to someone to have a proper look! The mechanic who sorted mine out the 2nd time round is an independent diesel engine specialist who works from what I presume is his family home. Not Sheffield though. If you want his number PM me.

 

 

Hi miss s 83,

 

i don't know if corsa c and d got the same engine but my problem started after servicing, cleaning maf sensor and cleaning egr, before doing these things car was vibrating very slightly you had to really concentrate hearing the vibrate and rev many times and was vibrating occasionally and some times it was vibrating very slightly also trubo was working perfectly, although car was little bit unresponsive until turbo kicks in but all was fine. Fuel economy was ok.

 

But now heavy vibration and fuel economy decreased, somebody really need looking into my car who knows well about corsas diesel.

[smithy266]

Try giving Tune it a call, they are on Callywhite Lane in Dronfield. Not got phone number to hand. Diesel specialists, they have sorted both my tcdi Focus and 1966 Landie.