mchristyuk
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Not a plea for help for a change, but hopefully some useful information for fellow 3200 owners...
Car had suddenly started to become reluctant to start, hot or cold. But not always, only occasionally. No error codes though. After about a month of this (car only really being used at weekends) I finally got an error light up on the dash, read it off with the code reader P1340.
Naturally I came here and put it in the search box and didn't really come up with anything.. so then I went to Google. My heart sank.
Nobody seems to have had this code with a 3200 but Audi's, VW's and Peugeots certainly did.. and they all said the same thing. Crank/Cam out of phase, probably owing to the cambelt skipping a tooth. B*gger. All their posts followed a familiar thread, had the cambelt been changed recently?... Mine had... double b*gger.
Before ripping the engine apart I decided to clean the sensor connectors for both the crank and cam sensors.
Error code went, car ran like a dream for 3 weeks. Then back to square one. No amount of cleaning this time would make it go away, nor make the car start.
So fitted a new Crank sensor this weekend. No joy.
Fitted a new Cam sensor today. Hurrrah!.. She lives.
So.. for future reference when a 3200 owner gets this error code and searches for it either via Google or here this may be of use
Mark
Car had suddenly started to become reluctant to start, hot or cold. But not always, only occasionally. No error codes though. After about a month of this (car only really being used at weekends) I finally got an error light up on the dash, read it off with the code reader P1340.
Naturally I came here and put it in the search box and didn't really come up with anything.. so then I went to Google. My heart sank.
Nobody seems to have had this code with a 3200 but Audi's, VW's and Peugeots certainly did.. and they all said the same thing. Crank/Cam out of phase, probably owing to the cambelt skipping a tooth. B*gger. All their posts followed a familiar thread, had the cambelt been changed recently?... Mine had... double b*gger.
Before ripping the engine apart I decided to clean the sensor connectors for both the crank and cam sensors.
Error code went, car ran like a dream for 3 weeks. Then back to square one. No amount of cleaning this time would make it go away, nor make the car start.
So fitted a new Crank sensor this weekend. No joy.
Fitted a new Cam sensor today. Hurrrah!.. She lives.
So.. for future reference when a 3200 owner gets this error code and searches for it either via Google or here this may be of use
Mark