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Good day,
I am turning towards this community in the hope that someone might shed light on my problem. Apologies for the long post, but this has been somewhat of a journey.
I have a 2009 Diesel CR-V with ~255,000km on the clock. A while back started smelling fuel in the cabin and heard injector blow-by coming from the engine.
Took it to my mechanic who inspected the injectors: turns out 3 of the 4 injectors need new o-rings and washers.
After the injectors were repaired and installed, they could not get the car to start. (The mechanic also struggled greatly to remove the injectors as they we fused shut to the casing).
They cleaned and inspected the fuel filter, fuel line, fuel tank filter, etc. All to no avail. They did find a lot of gunk in the fuel tank filter which was cleaned out, to no avail. Then further tests were done which indicated there is low fuel pressure which is causing the no-start.
All 4 injectors were eventually taken to a diesel injector specialist who bench-tested them. Turned out that all 4 injectors were more damaged than initially thought, and I paid them for complete reconditioning of the injectors. After the repairs they were bench-tested again and were 100% functioning as should.
Took injectors back to mechanic who installed them and yet again, the engine won't start.
I've been scouring the internet for related issues and it came down to the following possibilities:
All of the above was checked and seems to be fine.
At this point I am at my wit's end, it's been almost 2 months without my car. Losing all confidence in my mechanic to resolve this issue. Does anybody have any idea what might be the cause?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I am turning towards this community in the hope that someone might shed light on my problem. Apologies for the long post, but this has been somewhat of a journey.
I have a 2009 Diesel CR-V with ~255,000km on the clock. A while back started smelling fuel in the cabin and heard injector blow-by coming from the engine.
Took it to my mechanic who inspected the injectors: turns out 3 of the 4 injectors need new o-rings and washers.
After the injectors were repaired and installed, they could not get the car to start. (The mechanic also struggled greatly to remove the injectors as they we fused shut to the casing).
They cleaned and inspected the fuel filter, fuel line, fuel tank filter, etc. All to no avail. They did find a lot of gunk in the fuel tank filter which was cleaned out, to no avail. Then further tests were done which indicated there is low fuel pressure which is causing the no-start.
All 4 injectors were eventually taken to a diesel injector specialist who bench-tested them. Turned out that all 4 injectors were more damaged than initially thought, and I paid them for complete reconditioning of the injectors. After the repairs they were bench-tested again and were 100% functioning as should.
Took injectors back to mechanic who installed them and yet again, the engine won't start.
I've been scouring the internet for related issues and it came down to the following possibilities:
- faulty fuel rail pressure relief valve
- faulty pressure regulator solenoid
- faulty fuel pump
All of the above was checked and seems to be fine.
At this point I am at my wit's end, it's been almost 2 months without my car. Losing all confidence in my mechanic to resolve this issue. Does anybody have any idea what might be the cause?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!