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Hi all,

Just thought i'd let you know about the issues I've been having and a word of warning that might be of help.

Ever since I got my Scudo it has had a strange rumbly vibration that was clearly wheel speed related, it tended to be quiet when first driven and then after a few miles the sounds would get slightly worse. It made noises on both acceleration as well as on the overrun. I finally got fed up with it and having noticed a small split in the inner CV boot on the drivers side I decided to have the driveshaft out and take a look while replacing the boot. I had a quick look on Euro Car Parts and found that a complete replacement drive shaft (Q Drive brand) was only £70 after their usual "sale discount" so decided i'd make my life easy and just throw a new one in.

Completed the job and took the van up the road, glorious silence!! I was well happy, all the rumbly vibration and a few other odd noises gone.

Fast forward a couple of weeks and I'm towing my small caravan up to Yorkshire and I begin to notice the rumble returning, quite quiet but just audible. Bugger - so back to the drawing board I think. On returning from my break I was busy so didn't have a chance to look any deeper but the sounds got worse and worse until a couple of days ago a distinct clunk between acceleration and deceleration particularly in the lower gears started. This really started to worry me, particularly as I'm off for a weeks holiday this weekend and will be towing the caravan on a 500 mile round trip! So I take a look underneath and can't really identify anything terrible so I hit the internet and decide to see if anyone else has had this problem with ECP Q Drive driveshafts. Oh how I wished I'd done this before, I have yet to find a good review of them, the forums are littered with complaints, professional mechanics won't touch them as they never last more than a few months. One person said theirs had failed within 7 miles!!

So I ordered another driveshaft from J&R in Birmingham, excellent next day service and a two year warranty, fitted it last night and once again I have a quiet van. When I return from my holiday I will be taking the Q Drive drive shaft back to ECP for a refund.

So a word of warning, if you need a driveshaft I wouldn't touch a Q drive one if I were you!!

I will update this thread in a few months time and let you know how the J&R one is holding up!

Cheers Tim.

Hi Guys,

Any ideas on this one??

Used my van up until August of last year and then the MOT expired and it stood unused until Christmas. I have now started using it again properly and noticed a problem it hadn't had before, it has started to surge under acceleration. Once the boost comes on at about 2000rpm it starts to take off in its usual way but then hesitates, then it accelerates strongly again, and then hesitates, it does this 3-4 times between 2000-3000 rpm. The other thing is it has always seemed a bit gutless below 2000 rpm, I know all turbo diesels are a bit that way but this seems worse.

As the van is slowly being converted into a day van I'm going to be using it to tow our caravan. This weekend just gone was its first outing towing, a nice trip from Norwich to Pontefract and back and it became apparent this was more of a problem than I thought. With 1000kg of caravan it would not pull 3rd, 4th or 5th at anything less than 2000rpm, and the hesitation in the acceleration was clearly a problem. Then to cap it off on the way home while on one of its good moments it split a turbo hose - doh! It happened on an uphill stretch as I was passing a layby so pulled straight in. Half a mile of gaffa tape around the hose got us home using back roads and keeping the boost right down.

I'll replace all the flexible hoses in the boost pipework but I just wondered if anyone had any experience with this surging problem? I have changed the fuel filter thinking fuel starvation and that hasn't fixed it.

Just to clarify, 2004 Fiat Scudo, with the 2.0 HDI engine, 120000 on the clock.

Thanks in advance

Tim.

Hi all,

Just got back from an abandoned MOT attempt!!

Did all my usual checks before heading to my MOT place and all was fine, when I got there the chap doing my MOT had only been at it 2 minutes when he came through and said there was a puddle of diesel on the floor under the van. I went through and took a look and there was diesel dripping from the fuel filter at a rate of perhaps a drip per second. I have a great relationship with the garage I use so we tried a few things to fix it. After cleaning it and re-starting it we could see the leak was coming from under the locking ring on the top of the filter. We tried to tighten it but couldn't get any movement on it. At this point the MOT was abandoned as it was only going to make a mess over the workshop floor and was a fail anyway!!

I am about to order a replacement fuel filter and seal in the hope that its just a faulty seal, but I just wondered if anyone else had come across this problem before? Also looking on ECP website it lists two different filters, one for the Bosch system and one for the Siemens system, anyone know how to tell the difference easily?

I should add this is for the 2004 Fiat JTD (Peugeot HDI?) turbo engine.

I couldn't believe it as it was fine when I had left home!

Cheers Tim