Cursing the Frontera

[M8WHR]

Used the woman's frontera to shift the Lexus today. Reversing into the drive and stalled it a couple times. It wouldn't start so I left it for a half hour and it fired again. Running lumpy, like it was on three cylinders. Wouldn't rev above 1100 revs.

I trailered it to a mechanic. He won't be looking at it till next week though.

Have I f@&ked it?

Cheers

[BUSHWHACKER]

Oil burner or proper fuel?

[M8WHR]

Stinky oil burner Vince. 2.2DTi. I heard they were guilty of dropping injectors whatever that means.

[BUSHWHACKER]

The information I have found so far says crank sensor fault or vacuum pipe come somwhere around the EGR valve.
Did the engine check light come on?

[M8WHR]

Okay, no there was no lights on the dash. When I dropped it off at the mechanics I left it on the trailer but tried to start it. It would churn and churn and when I let go of the key it would stutter as if it was about to fire. Tried turning the key again but just repeated the process.

Thanks Vince.

[RebelV8]

We have a 2.5TD Frontera, ours did something similar. Turned out to be a damaged pushrod, luckily there was no other damage, replaced the pushrod, put it all back together and everything was ok again.

[M8WHR]

Think the 2.5 are a better engine. The mechanic plugged his diagnostics in and reckons it's the fuel pump. So it's going on ebay spares or repairs. If it doesn't sell it's getting scrapped.

[Dobbslc]

I had 2 Frontera's both had head gasket problems, both had lots of fault lights everywhere flashing up on the dash. Now have a 3rd gen Surf happy days.

Missus has a 59 plate diesel Zafira that's just as bad as the ###### Frontera's!
Egr valves x 2 (still in bits now)
Gearbox bearings at 49000 miles!
Alternator pulley 44000 miles.
Kills tyres.
Totally unreliable useless vehicle.
I'll never buy Vauxhall again.

[heleneaustin]

I had one of these once as wanted a 4X4 and boyfriend of the time wanted my BMW and i stupidly swapped my beemer for this pile of c**p.
Never again, really bad off road too.
Then i found the Surf....lovely in every way.