...ANTIPOLLUTION FAULT...

[goga_eg]

Mani days the display write Antipollution fault. So J tried to clean tank, fuel guts, filter housing, everything about that, but nothing. Dispay is again on Antipollutionfault... So... J tried somthing else
J have clean Antifreeze and wash many time, the water was dark brown
now system is clean and dispal is ok...
Is it possible that the water was dirty, that cause Antipollution fault... Some senzor is detect dirty???

j dont get it

[Capncol]

The anti pollution fault is shown when the computer detects that the car is producing more emissions from the exhaust than it should. It is usually caused by a misfire, so faulty spark plugs, coil pack, failed catalytic converter. and so on.
Dirty coolant won't cause it, so I suspect the fault will return.

[goga_eg]

j fix the problem, it was the pressure regulator valve on bosc pump.... j put the new one, and now, finaly, the car works great... no sistem erors, no faults, no nothing.... j also clean the ecu memory... j am happy now.....

[Capncol]

Thanks for the feedback. Glad you fixed it (sounds like you have a Diesel engine)

[SENRAB]

I've given up on my Wifes 206cc, I'm going to push it off a cliff if I can get the car to drive to one.
It all started at 3000Kms with the Anti pollution light and going into limp mode. Took it to Peugeot, they cleared the ECU and said Injector 1 trouble. OK says I, change it to another pot, lets see.
Soon after, the problem starts again. This time its the Cat alarm, take it back again, cleared the alarm in the ECU.
The problem clears itself occasionally so I thought, change the brand/Octane of fuel, that sorts it for a while, then again we are back at the dealer. This time its the coil pack, changed plugs and general check over. As my Wife doesn't do a lot of mileage, by this time the car is out of warranty and I'm short of close to a £1000.
All OK for a while until we get to 13000Kms then it starts again. Now they want the equivalent of £3000 in my local money. Whaaaat??? Whats wrong now? They want to change various "bits" and may as well change the Cam belt while they're under the bonnet. Now, I'm not as stupid as I look, we'll skip the Cam belt. I wrote to Peugeot, complaining bitterly, they said I had a bad attitude and wouldn't talk to me.
Its now been 5 years/54000Kms and this problem is constantly popping up. Its had roof trouble, the A/C has been re-gassed 3 times and it creaks more than my old bones.
Anybody have any ideas or suggestions? apart from the Cliff suggestion.

[GrandadMonkey]

Part exchange it for a newer car. If your wife's is more than 7 years old it is past its design life anyway.

No point in throwing good money after bad.

[SENRAB]

Part exchange it for a newer car. If your wife's is more than 7 years old it is past its design life anyway.

No point in throwing good money after bad.

Part exchange it with who, I assume you don't mean Peugeot, I wouldn't touch another one with a barge pole.

[gazza82]

Most dealers will take anything to get a sale in the UK anyway ... but I have feeling from your posts you are not in the UK! We also have webuyanycar.com ...

[GrandadMonkey]

Why not try another Vauxhall...

[SENRAB]

Gazza, correct, I live in South Africa but I'm in the UK at the moment with work. Its unfortunate that we don't have Mechanics there, only Wallet stripping spanner jockeys and dealers who write you off as you drive away from the showroom. Also we don't have helpful Websites like this one.

G'DadMonkey: I think our local version of the Vauxhall is the Opel. They brought out the "Cadet" some years back. It had the reputation of never working properly again after its first service.

[gazza82]

I've heard about a few good independent Alfa ones over there ..

My one and only visit to the Cape was in early 80's and I borrowed company Ford Cortina Bakkie pickup truck at weekends! (based on old Ford Cortina Mk IV/V http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1981_ ... Pickup.jpg) ... loads of fun to drive. Bosses had Beemers mainly with a few old US motors in company car park! Did pickup a couple of unwanted hitch-hikers one day .. Baboons!!

What year was the CC made? The later ones (post-Sept 2002 petrol) should be the EOBD diagnostics system which is fairly standard (diesel engines changed in Sept 2004) ... which would mean most garages could at least plug it in and get the fault codes up. Before that it's hit & miss as you really need the pp2000 software to get anywhere. The software can be downloaded from another peugeot forum for free and runs off windows (I'm still using XP for that) but the cables are the killer. I ended up getting mine from China! (aliexpress £60-70) as even ebay were over £100 unless you found a real bargain and were quick.

At least then though you could earn the cost back reading other peoples Pug fault codes for a small fee!! You don't have to fix the problem but this avoids a couple of hours of labour cost at the dealers, who half the time come up with fiction as you are aware. I could do this but haven't yet, but my cables have already paid for themselves on our two Pugs! I fitted rear speakers to the hatchback (as standard it only had fronts). But to get them to work you have to change the BSI settings. Asked local dealer ... £80 plus VAT (at 20%). Bought cables for less, set up speakers and a couple of other things .. saved money!

I'm assuming the CCs went through the same electronics changes as the hatchbacks ... if you have a screw on driver's airbag (round holes in the back of the steering wheel), the radio has it's own display and is angled not rectangular, and the remote radio stalk is thin and long, it's the pre-multiplex system which needs pp2000 or a peugeot specific code reader (I bought a Sealey VS863 as we had two Pugs and a Renault which needed codes read regularly ... not cheap!). If the airbag clips on, the radio has no display and is rectangular and the remote is short flattish and stubby, you have a multiplex system which should be EOBD compatible. I think as yours says "anti-pollution fault" on the MFD that's also a multiplex feature.

I don't know about the export market. You would expect them to switch about the same time but as this was a European directive, they could ship the older cars sitting in the fields of Europe to countries like SA to shift them or just use up the parts stocks at the factories.

I'm wondering if your anti-pollution fault is the cat or even one of the lambda sensors .. even a small hole in the exhaust can throw the sensors out as my daughter's 2.0 CC can testify! It has a small crack at the rear of the main centre silencer courtesy of a speed hump. The EML light comes on intermittently now due to this even though the lambdas are a long way forward from the silencer just before and after the cat. The sensor bodies are the same but on the 2.0 one has a blue plug, the other green. The cables are also slightly different lengths and on a lamdba sensor this apparently is critical. So one option is the Bosch Universal kit which you cut the original cables and wire in the new sensor ... and no soldering! (Did that on the Alfa 156 and it's fine over two years on!). The kit also saves a bit of money as well.

[SENRAB]

Hi Gazza
Interesting that you mention "a small hole in the exhaust". This was brought up on the last service so I'll mention it when I next take the crock for the errors to be cleared.
Thanks for that.

[goga_eg]

Now J am back... So far, so good, but now, apparently problem has back... Backing time, when J put a new regulator valve, car has benn working so nice, that everything was so f... good, but, on a board displeys write, again, antipollution fault... J have been to mechanical test, and the worker said that pump of high pressure is not giving enough pressure, work with half pressure. To me, it seemed to be write becose the senzor pressure didnt write good pressure, so now, j must take off the belt, pump and who know what alse... egr seemed too be ok on diagnostic, but j must, see the injectors and catalyst... this antipollution fault seemed to be frequentative problem on 206 models... seemed that antipollution is the problem with exhaust gases, but now------it can be pump, regulator, many things, j dont get it

[Capncol]

What engine do you have? Year?

[goga_eg]

RFN (EW10J4) - 2004