Owners of Vivaros beware!

[High Tower]

Anyone who owns a Vivaro, be careful in this weather!, DO NOT try and clear large amounts of snow off your windscreen with your wipers!!

I did and found its achillies heel, the linkage is connected to the gearbox with a simple ball and socket arrangement as is normal, unfortunatly on this particular model, a large amount of snow is enough to dislocate the joint.

And re locating is a 2hr ish job that involves stripping the entire scuttle panel out!, no fun at all this evening, on the drive, in -2c with it snowing!

 

[chrish_1977]

I would maybe give vauxhall a call, you never know what they might come back with as the last I heard the chains were non serviceable (not something to worry about kind Of thing)

 

[robd]

Yeah cheers I think we're thinking if that went something else must be wrong...just keeping my fingers crossed at mo and trying to find something to rent for a week or two

 

[mark spark]

have a 2011 vivario, 60000km have it in the garage at the minute,injector problem,the dash would light up like a xmas tree then the "STOP" light would come on,thank god for warranty

 

[Tim]

have a 2011 vivario, 60000km have it in the garage at the minute,injector problem,the dash would light up like a xmas tree then the "STOP" light would come on,thank god for warranty

Thats exactly the same problem i have, mines going in to nissan tomorrow for a full top end rebuild under warrenty.

 

[TaffyDuck]

have a 2011 vivario, 60000km have it in the garage at the minute,injector problem,the dash would light up like a xmas tree then the "STOP" light would come on,thank god for warranty

Sounds familiar, at least the injectors probably haven`t had time to weld themselves to the head yest and you might get it back in a week or two. If they have, maybe a month

 

[Tez4b4]

I used to repair these vans before I retrained, the reason the injectors go is swarf, an this is due to when the fuel filter is changed I the correct priming procedure isn't followed is makes the pump run dry and then starts stripping the metal from inside the pump and then chucks this into to fuel system

For the owners of these vehicles, what is the correct priming procedure ?

 

[littlespark]

Unless you've got a '13 plate vehicle... this advice is a bit out of date.

Another one to be marked "not open for further replies" perhaps, Mods?

 

[telectrix]

i once had a primastar. just still under the 3 year warranty. failed th staret anf eng. man.light on. main daeler a it 8weeks, determined it was the injectors. head off, sent to engine specialist. injectors cleaned except no 1 which they destroyed so fitted a new one. 3 weeks later no1. injector fell out. main dealer says it's now out of warranty, the injectors weren't covered anywqay as the are a "serviceable item", so we want £90/hour to diagnose and fix. i drilled and tapped the injector thread from 8mm to 10mm, got it running, and traded it in. never again.