Picture the scene...is sauntering along in my sweet ride having had yet another day of smashing the world of business and commerce, fighting off my Page 3 stalker, kissing babies and generally being a good egg*, when my car went pop. Diesel Volvo 1.6d (jealousy is such a ugly emotion)....doing around 70 (honest) engine simply turned off, engine service light comes on and I coast to the curb. Won’t start though starter has gone majorly high pitched. No visible signs of leaks or breaks, car didn’t make a noise when engine closed off. Any ideas? Cambelt was due in 6000 miles. Don’t think it seized. * some parts of this are made up. The Egg part.
Your fuel ran out. The ECU has fallen out. A wire fell off. A timing sensor failed. I used to get a fault where my diesel would just stop with 1/3 of a tank on the fuel gauge while cornering. Turned out the polyropylene fuel tank has a spring loaded fuel pickup assembly with springs pushing the fuel pump down. The springs had jammed with the pickup in midair rather than on the bottom of the tank. It would always restart after cranking until the starter motor began to slow down... I dont know what pushed the bottom of the tank up that far... I was told a new tank was £600.. but a Peugeot technician found the fault and was honest enough to just push it back down rather than do the tank change.
This^^. Our old Astra stripped a cam belt, spunover really fast straight after but at a higher pitch than before. Hopefully it's cam safe and you'll be fine.
Because some of the valves will be open, or bent... Also the starter is only turning the bottom half of the engine, so it spins faster.
Pop the cover of and look at the timing belt.. I had one go on a works van once no noise , but lots of valve damage..
Sounds like cam belt, particularly with starter easily turning the engine. I’ve just this evening finished replacing the timing belt on my mk4 golf tdi, it gave up on me on Monday evening, finally dieing as I pulled up at some traffic lights, but miraculously (for an interference engine) did no valve damage, just stripped the teeth of the belt, whilst it was sat on the crank pulley I think, I’ve awarded it a ‘Triggers Broom Award‘ as most people would have binned it with 325k on the clock. Wanted to put the award sticker on the outside, but black car, and an almost black sticker doesn’t work, it was destined for my bus, but recently the golf has stepped up in needing lots of work and money being thrown at it
