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[Paddy Flannery]

Hello folks,

Your repair advice please for the fuel cap body coloured coded flap not locking on my 2003 2.6 V6 saloon.

Thank you in anticipation.

[TheBoy]

check the solenoid - can see it from the boot's cubby hole

[RobG]

check the solenoid - can see it from the boot's cubby hole

....and if it`s knackered I got a spare one here

[TheBoy]

Seen a few fail, but generally reliable enough to use 2nd hand, once you have proved thats the issue

[Paddy Flannery]

Guys,

Thanks for the very propmpt replies.
Now, forgive me, but my mechanical mind only stretches to starting the car, driving it and stopping it !

By " cubby hole in boot " do you mean where the first aid kit should be, behind the hinged flap or the part further into the boot that when you remove the flap, it comes away completely revealing the top of the suspension strut, I think !
Having found the right cubby hole, where can I find the solenoid and what does it look like please ?

What a numpty eh ?

Thank you

[TheBoy]

Guys,

Thanks for the very propmpt replies.
Now, forgive me, but my mechanical mind only stretches to starting the car, driving it and stopping it !

By " cubby hole in boot " do you mean where the first aid kit should be, behind the hinged flap or the part further into the boot that when you remove the flap, it comes away completely revealing the top of the suspension strut, I think !
Having found the right cubby hole, where can I find the solenoid and what does it look like please ?

What a numpty eh ?

Thank you

First aid. Look through and towards rear wheel - you will see the fuel filler, and the solenoid.  Solenoid mech is approx 4" long, and black from memory...

[RobG]

 

Solenoid mech is approx 4" long, and black from memory

........and held on with two large head pozi screws

[Paddy Flannery]

Great so far.

Now when I go out to the car tomorrow and trace the solenoid, how do I know if it's the problem apart from changing it ? Is there a way of testing it please.

Thanks

[RobG]

Undo the two screws.......slide it rearwards & unplug........grease up the locking pin.....re-connect plug & check if it then works..........if not, make sure you have power going to plug. Obviously if you`ve got 12v then motor is donald ducked

[Paddy Flannery]

Rob G,

Do you mind if I PM you ?

I'm grateful for your advice, but if I continue to ask more questions, I run the risk of making myself look like a clown in public !!

Thank you

[RobG]

No probs
Don`t worry about making yourself look a clown...........plenty of them on here

[Paddy Flannery]

Ok, here goes.

The locking pin ? Now, when I inspecteced inside the flap, I saw a slim silver piece of metal jutting out from the left ...... I pushed it back in.

Was that the locking pin ? How can I tease it out to grease it ?
 I don't have any way of testing whether there is power to the solenoid. You are dealing with a real send it to the garage man here, only in times of money shortage, I'm trying to do wee bits and pieces myself.

Thanks for your patience.

[RobG]

Give us a minute and I`ll stick a pic up

[Andy B]

....

The locking pin ? Now, when I inspecteced inside the flap, I saw a slim silver piece of metal jutting out from the left ...... I pushed it back in ........

You could see the locking pin? Leave the fuel flap open & lock/unlock the doors. Does the pin move at all. What's the receiver bit on the flap look like? Is it damaged or still there, it's only plastic. 

[Paddy Flannery]

I'll check in morning, but the day I looked inside the flap, the long, slim piece of shiny silver metal was protruding at the right level from the left. I imagine that was the locking pin. I'll check if thetre is any bfoken plastic part on the flap itself. If it is broken plastic part, is that part available to buy ?

Thanks