Peugeot 206 - CUTTING OUT AT IDLING SPEEDS!!

I have a Peugeot 206 XS 1.6 (1998 S REG).

For over 2 months now, the car has been randomly cutting out when
idling, for example at junctions or roundabouts. There appears to be no
pattern to when it cuts out, i.e. it cuts out in wet, dry, cold and warm
conditions. I have noticed that the rev counter often jumps and
occasionally sticks at somewhere around 3000 revs without me even
pressing the accelerator at all whilst waiting at a roundabout for
example. Also, whilst driving – the car occasionally kicks/jumps if I am
not applying much acceleration.

To begin with, I went to a Peugeot dealer garage. At this first visit, I
was charged £50 for them to inspect and clean the ‘Stepper Motor’ which
took 2 hours. After roughly a week of driving without cutting out during
which time I thought this had fixed the problem, the car started cutting
out all of a sudden (up to 5-6 times a day). Following this, I went back
to the Peugeot dealer and had a brand new stepper motor (idle control
valve system) fitted for £150, (on top of £50) which I was already to
look at and ‘clean’ the stepper motor on my first visit. Since then, the
Peugeot garage said ‘they had no idea what was causing it and could try
a number of different parts to try and find the problem, but obviously
this could cost me an enormous amount of money for just replacing
perfectly good parts until they find the correct one.’

I found this response very unsatisfactory so I decided to get a second
opinion and took it to a private garage somewhere else. Here, I was told
that the ‘Temperature Sensor’ was faulty and therefore this has been
replaced now. Needless to say, this still hasn’t fixed it.

This problem has caused be a lot of distress, time and money during the
last few weeks and I really need it sorted. I find it hard to believe
that Peugeot cannot even find what is wrong after having it twice to
look at!! I very much doubt I would buy another Peugeot or recommend one
to another person after all this hassle as this is not the first time I
have had problems with Peugeot cars.

Please let me know if anyone has had any similar problems and more
importantly and success in fixing such a problem!

Thanks in advance!

 

I had almost exactly the same problem on a 99 206 GLX 1.6 (same engine as
your I think). It had the same erratic behaviour, made changing gears in
roundabouts very interesting! And I got some odd looks from a Police car I
was sitting next to at lights when it was revving its head off!

I got it fixed at Peugeot Canterbury (I'm from near Glasgow and was away on
business). It started playing up on the drive down to Kent, and I took it
in the next day. I'm sure they said it was 'the idle control motor', which
they ordered in and fitted the next day. This was when the car was about 6
months (15,000 miles) old and under warranty.

Incidentally, the exact same problem happened with my next car - a Rover
416. So it is not just a Peugeot problem... but I do wonder if it was
because I was a bit hard on the cars?

 

Hi,

I had a similar problem once on my old 1.4L 205.

In my case the servo that controls how much warm air (preheated by the exhaust pipe) is mixed with the cold air (from the air intake pipe running from the front). If this servo is spoiled it will only fully open to the cold air. In wet & cold conditions it might result in ice build up in the intake hose, and from time to time the motor will just go off.

The other part you could get checked is the lambda sensor in the exhaust pipe. It might give faulty signals to the engine control unit.

Best Regards
Frank Enkelmann


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