THP 165 DSport Plus - Recall, Fan Component failure & ECU Failure

[Wes79]

So, after only 5000 miles my car had the Engine Failure notice and the service light pop up last Friday. Turned car off and left it a few minutes and it all cleared. Then it came back on and the fan kicked in for literally 5 seconds.

Called Citroen assist who were awesome but couldn't read any fault codes. Took it to John Grose who said there was actually a recall notice on the car for a fuse issue where it wasn't inserted correctly so they would sort that at the same time.

They sorted the fuse issue and stated a small component in the fan had failed but this only took them a few hours to sort everything. Awesome as ever at JG.

However yesterday the light came back on, same error message but no fan issues etc. Took it back to JG and got a brand new whisper purple Cactus for a courtesy car. (Its awesomely lovely) Just had a call to say it needs a new ECU!!

There seemed nothing wrong at all with the car. No loss of power, no rattles or noises. No limp mode.

So.... for the next few days, I'm in a Cactus! Put its nice, nippy, economical and comfy. It's only a basic model, but this is tempting me....

[BeefMasta]

Hope it's sorted soon!

Get the Cactus for your Mrs, then you get best of both, lol.

[cyclone]

There seemed nothing wrong at all with the car.

except for the engine light.

[Chris_Blue]

Hope all gets sorted Wes- my ECU went nuts and had to be replaced
It had a few little hiccoughs, then went bang

Not sure if the remap had anything to do with it, doubtful.

[Wes79]

except for the engine light.

Haha yes! But it's a nice red colour....

[Wes79]

Hope all gets sorted Wes- my ECU went nuts and had to be replaced
It had a few little hiccoughs, then went bang

Not sure if the remap had anything to do with it, doubtful.

Thanks. JG are looking after me well. They always do so quite happy with the BHDi cactus for now! 84mpg just in time for a weekend trip.

[cyclone]

The lengths people go to to color coordinate.

[Mike_]

That sucks, Wes. Hope everything gets sorted for you ASAP.

[joeking27]

Will you have it back for the weekend?

[Acmaguire]

Did you get the purple one Wes?

Saw your evil editionII round in the service centre, but please explain

'do you even glyph though'

means?

[Wes79]

Will you have it back for the weekend?

Not too sure as yet. If not I have a lovely cactus.

Did you get the purple one Wes?

Saw your evil editionII round in the service centre, but please explain

'do you even glyph though'

means?

I did indeed get the Cadbury Wagon!

The decal on the EE2 is a reference to an almost hidden feature in a gps based mobile game called Ingress created by a division of Google that I play. It's played by millions all over the world and just liked the decal haha.

[Acmaguire]

myself and james are totally googling this right now!

[pmatil]

Called Citroen assist who were awesome but couldn't read any fault codes.

You should get someone who can read them. I would be surprised if there was no fault codes at all. I had an issue in my DS3, I couldn't read any codes with Torque but the citroen garage did. You just have to have the right equipment.

[Wes79]

You should get someone who can read them. I would be surprised if there was no fault codes at all. I had an issue in my DS3, I couldn't read any codes with Torque but the citroen garage did. You just have to have the right equipment.

Ah yeah Citroën themselves could it was just the AA that couldn't at the time.