It saves approx. £1000 per year in fuel compared to using the Omega. Hateful ittle bastards dont come cheap at the moment. Hence wanting to fix it if possible.
I have this nagging feeling that it might be something simple that Im overlooking.
If it's worth saving get a second opinion from someone who knows the engine. It might cost a few Bob, but worth it if you can get it running.
Not that easy when I cant take it somewhere. My experience of expensive mobile mechanics is that they often know less than I do.
Ive been posting about it on the Renault forum, and it seems to have the resident "experts" stumped.
Ive had another fiddle with it - bypassed the filter and connected the supply pipe up to the pump to a pipe running into a jug of diesel.
It sucks the diesel up and it comes back down the return pipe, so Im guessing its getting pumped to the injectors, but they arent firing it into the cylinders so the engine can start.
So what would stop the injectors from firing ?
Crank sensor coincidentally failed when the cambelt jumped teeth ? Its at the gearbox end of the engine so very doubtful.
Cam sensor - its possible the wiring to that has got damaged internally, but I think that would make it run rough rather than not at all.
Would probably throw up its own fault code too ?
I really am stumped, but still have a feeling its just something Im overlooking.
Very tempted indeed to just scrap it, but cant really afford to replace it without selling the Boxster, which I really dont want to do.
Also buying another small cheap car, could be buying another unreliable heap of shite and I might be no further forward.
Will have to resolve it somehow soon though, as £13 a day in petrol in the Omega just to get to work isnt sustainable in the long term.