Recon diesel injectors

[Tubsie]

Hi
I'm new here and having bought myself a rather tidy 406 exec estate on a W plate for the daily grind, I thought i'd get it MOT'd and serviced before I set it to a life of toil hauling me to work everyday. MOT went well failed only on a small diesel leak on the fuel filter which was cured as part of the service ( why do they service your car after they MOT it ). Anyway when I bought the car it was running a little lumpy and the garage have looked into this to tell me all 4 injectors are basically "how you say" shagged. As I use these guys all the time I trust them and as new injectors are around £130 + VAT they are looking into the recon market. So do any of you wonderful people have any info on where I can get some, it would be much appreciated as I guess the next thing on the list will no doubt be a fuel pump just round off the whole ensemble.

Cheers

Tub's

[Welly]

Hello tubsie,

Lumpy idle is a weird one, not something we could say is common - what's the mileage?

Could just be a dodgy sensor/wire. We never touch our injectors to be honest

Have a sniff around on here there's some really good advice from real diagnostic and repair geezers http://www.ilexa.co.uk/forum/index.php? ... board=22.0

Here's a lumpy tickover thread from those guys http://www.ilexa.co.uk/forum/index.php/ ... l#msg83548

[Tubsie]

Hi Welton
Thanks for the info I'll pass it on, the cars done around150k and apart from a test drive in it, I got the keys and dropped it straight round to the garage so I cant tell if the problem clears or not. I do around 850 miles a week (mainly motorway) so I need it to be realiable.

Tub's

[mbell666]

my 406 had very rough idle espicially when cold, sounded like it was running on three cylinders! only just passed the smoke test with re-con head (no related).

My advise would be get the garage to take it out for a decent hard driver, then smoke test it straight after. If that doesn't work good dose of forte injector cleaner (some people recommend putting a bit in the filter housing). If it still fails its prob time for new/recon injectors.

130 is cheap for new injectors, when i've lookd new ones where more like 250 and recon 130!

[Tubsie]

That was £130 each injector at £250 each they'd be what i paid for the car lol