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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

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

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

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!

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