Hi Everyone,
We've owned this 206 for 10 years this year. I'm sure most have seen my other threads but to cut a long story short, this car got parked up for 10 and a half months.
I had left the battery hooked up and occasionally went over to start it up, however after a few months. Dead battery. I removed the battery, took it home, charged it up and left it in the shed. The 206 was now as good as a brick until it came to get her running again.
it's a 206, 2.0HDi Eco 90.
This car, over the past 10 years, hasn't really needed anything out of the ordinary. It's had A battery, 1 clutch, brakes, timing belt kit + water pump, radiator and semi-regular servicing. The most intrusive thing it's needed and it wasn't that bad, was a new rear axle as they are just prone to rotting and the torsion bar splines rot and twist in the arms (It didn't help I loaded 30 bags of soil in the back at the time and squished said poor suspension to the floor, that's actually what finished the axle off).
Did I say, this car has over 200k miles on her too. (photos you'll see of lower mileage as it had a cluster put in it before we got it).
Me and my better half, love this car, it's been through so much with us. Yes it has windy windows, yes there is no A/C, yes road noise is quite intrusive and although mechanically she has always been a trooper, visually, she has taken a mighty fine beating over the years (non our fault and I'll go over these with exterior shots at a later date) but we love it.
Let's begin! Friday night, I got the battery and the charger out to make sure it had held it's charge, whacked it on and within 5 minutes it was registering 100%. (Yes the mrs went nuts when she'd seen I put it on the carpet :lol: )
Saturday morning, battery in hand, went over to where she was parked up, mum doesn't drive and has a space at her apartment. When I got there, this is what I was greeted with.
It's my own fault but does make me feel for her, looking like this. She's given us so much.
Now the interior, I'd posted up a thread about removing mould and to be fair, in daylight, it wasn't as bad as it looked under torchlight in the dark.
This is the passenger door, funnily, nothing at all on the drivers.
I had left a coat on the back seat, this was by far the worst mould in the car..
Finally, a shot of the ecosystem developed on the steering wheel :lol:
Looks as if condensation dripping off the windscreen was the main cause of all this.
ValetPro Enzyme cleaner was the weapon of choice. So, I held my breath and went bat**** crazy and soaked everywhere with it.
Seats liberally sprayed..
Letting that work it's magic, I decided as it wasn't as bad as I thought, I didn't have the wet vac with me at this point and I needed to drive it to get it somewhere I can work more easily on it, I was going to use the DIY vacuum (a titan from screwfix) to just suck it all up and hope the dust and dirt it picks up, traps the moisture in the bag.
Out came the extension :lol:
Wanting to leave it soak, I thought now was the time to see if I could get her running.
Plopped in the battery and this is the very first start, apologise about the background noise, it's a new build estate with work going on.
Woohoo! It hunted for all of 2 seconds, then settled to a lovely idle. Now...later on you'll see why, it's not pretty.
After 1 pass with the Titan, things were already looking up. I've only got 2 shots of the interior this far because I want to go over it all again.
The brown staining on the seat was there before, I hope to remove this also.
Steering wheel looking less like an Environmental Health Hazard
After the first vac, I sprayed all the seats again and used a nail brush to give them a good scrub as there was a couple of spots of black mould that needed proper agitation. Another Vac and I was happy to drive it without fearing a chest infection or something.
Since 2013, this has had an engine management light on. Was driving home from the new forest and hit a massive area of standing water on the dual-carriageway, immediately car felt like it lost power and the light came on.
I've always had my thoughts it was the MAF, as I put a new air filter in it and unplugged the MAF, it then drove as it always had done. We bought a new car at the time so this got used less and less so I never bothered to get a new MAF.
Well now in 2019, that will cause it to fail an MOT, so I thought I'll take the MAF off and visually inspect it and see what brand it is. I know dodgy chinese ones off eBay are cheap but they read wrong and don't last, so wanted to be sure I know which one to get.
Well well well...what did I find.
Here..is the MAF.
You aren't supposed to get skin oils on the sensors in these, let alone all that corrosion, I suspect back in 2013, water got in there and the corrosion is a result of that.
After seeing that paper on the front side though, thought I best check the airfilter :doublesho:doublesho:doublesho
OMG the STENCH of it. My throat is tightening up thinking about it now, a very rancid, wet, mouldy smell. So strong. The inside of the car, had a very faint whiff, but this...jesus wept it was eye watering.
The air filter wasn't replaced that long before the car was left to stand. It's in this state because moisture has got to it, this is not how it's been since 2013.
So full of moisture, the engine tried to suck in air and instead ripped the filters innards clean out lololol. Now we know why it hunted.
Roll on to Sunday, day 2, I drove the car (I know silly boy) to euro car parts and I fitted the new Bosch filter in their car park and disposed of the old one in their bin.
A quick pitstop...(was on my own so SWMBO'd couldn't tell me off for eating junk!) :thumb:
Then back to the in laws.
As it it's Sunday, I wanted to do a service on the BMW, happy that I'd done the air filter, given it a good run now and there was no smell inside. I used this spray in all of the air vents.
I did give the outside a quick jetwash and 'brush' at a local petrol station, trust me when I say nothing could make it look any worse. A proper detail will be incoming in this thread shortly.
Checking all the lights, the stop and tail bulb was out, popped to buy new and it wouldn't work!
I sanded and cleaned the metal contacts up but it still wouldn't work. I am now on the hunt for a new board, or maybe facelift rear lights.
Thanks for reading, its about time this car got some love.
We've owned this 206 for 10 years this year. I'm sure most have seen my other threads but to cut a long story short, this car got parked up for 10 and a half months.
I had left the battery hooked up and occasionally went over to start it up, however after a few months. Dead battery. I removed the battery, took it home, charged it up and left it in the shed. The 206 was now as good as a brick until it came to get her running again.
it's a 206, 2.0HDi Eco 90.
This car, over the past 10 years, hasn't really needed anything out of the ordinary. It's had A battery, 1 clutch, brakes, timing belt kit + water pump, radiator and semi-regular servicing. The most intrusive thing it's needed and it wasn't that bad, was a new rear axle as they are just prone to rotting and the torsion bar splines rot and twist in the arms (It didn't help I loaded 30 bags of soil in the back at the time and squished said poor suspension to the floor, that's actually what finished the axle off).
Did I say, this car has over 200k miles on her too. (photos you'll see of lower mileage as it had a cluster put in it before we got it).
Me and my better half, love this car, it's been through so much with us. Yes it has windy windows, yes there is no A/C, yes road noise is quite intrusive and although mechanically she has always been a trooper, visually, she has taken a mighty fine beating over the years (non our fault and I'll go over these with exterior shots at a later date) but we love it.
Let's begin! Friday night, I got the battery and the charger out to make sure it had held it's charge, whacked it on and within 5 minutes it was registering 100%. (Yes the mrs went nuts when she'd seen I put it on the carpet :lol: )
Saturday morning, battery in hand, went over to where she was parked up, mum doesn't drive and has a space at her apartment. When I got there, this is what I was greeted with.
It's my own fault but does make me feel for her, looking like this. She's given us so much.
Now the interior, I'd posted up a thread about removing mould and to be fair, in daylight, it wasn't as bad as it looked under torchlight in the dark.
This is the passenger door, funnily, nothing at all on the drivers.
I had left a coat on the back seat, this was by far the worst mould in the car..
Finally, a shot of the ecosystem developed on the steering wheel :lol:
Looks as if condensation dripping off the windscreen was the main cause of all this.
ValetPro Enzyme cleaner was the weapon of choice. So, I held my breath and went bat**** crazy and soaked everywhere with it.
Seats liberally sprayed..
Letting that work it's magic, I decided as it wasn't as bad as I thought, I didn't have the wet vac with me at this point and I needed to drive it to get it somewhere I can work more easily on it, I was going to use the DIY vacuum (a titan from screwfix) to just suck it all up and hope the dust and dirt it picks up, traps the moisture in the bag.
Out came the extension :lol:
Wanting to leave it soak, I thought now was the time to see if I could get her running.
Plopped in the battery and this is the very first start, apologise about the background noise, it's a new build estate with work going on.
Woohoo! It hunted for all of 2 seconds, then settled to a lovely idle. Now...later on you'll see why, it's not pretty.
After 1 pass with the Titan, things were already looking up. I've only got 2 shots of the interior this far because I want to go over it all again.
The brown staining on the seat was there before, I hope to remove this also.
Steering wheel looking less like an Environmental Health Hazard
After the first vac, I sprayed all the seats again and used a nail brush to give them a good scrub as there was a couple of spots of black mould that needed proper agitation. Another Vac and I was happy to drive it without fearing a chest infection or something.
Since 2013, this has had an engine management light on. Was driving home from the new forest and hit a massive area of standing water on the dual-carriageway, immediately car felt like it lost power and the light came on.
I've always had my thoughts it was the MAF, as I put a new air filter in it and unplugged the MAF, it then drove as it always had done. We bought a new car at the time so this got used less and less so I never bothered to get a new MAF.
Well now in 2019, that will cause it to fail an MOT, so I thought I'll take the MAF off and visually inspect it and see what brand it is. I know dodgy chinese ones off eBay are cheap but they read wrong and don't last, so wanted to be sure I know which one to get.
Well well well...what did I find.
Here..is the MAF.
You aren't supposed to get skin oils on the sensors in these, let alone all that corrosion, I suspect back in 2013, water got in there and the corrosion is a result of that.
After seeing that paper on the front side though, thought I best check the airfilter :doublesho:doublesho:doublesho
OMG the STENCH of it. My throat is tightening up thinking about it now, a very rancid, wet, mouldy smell. So strong. The inside of the car, had a very faint whiff, but this...jesus wept it was eye watering.
The air filter wasn't replaced that long before the car was left to stand. It's in this state because moisture has got to it, this is not how it's been since 2013.
So full of moisture, the engine tried to suck in air and instead ripped the filters innards clean out lololol. Now we know why it hunted.
Roll on to Sunday, day 2, I drove the car (I know silly boy) to euro car parts and I fitted the new Bosch filter in their car park and disposed of the old one in their bin.
A quick pitstop...(was on my own so SWMBO'd couldn't tell me off for eating junk!) :thumb:
Then back to the in laws.
As it it's Sunday, I wanted to do a service on the BMW, happy that I'd done the air filter, given it a good run now and there was no smell inside. I used this spray in all of the air vents.
I did give the outside a quick jetwash and 'brush' at a local petrol station, trust me when I say nothing could make it look any worse. A proper detail will be incoming in this thread shortly.
Checking all the lights, the stop and tail bulb was out, popped to buy new and it wouldn't work!
I sanded and cleaned the metal contacts up but it still wouldn't work. I am now on the hunt for a new board, or maybe facelift rear lights.
Thanks for reading, its about time this car got some love.