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Hi All
So at the moment, I'm a bit :brickwall::brickwall::brickwall::brickwall::brickwall:
I have a 59 plate 1.6HDi, great little van. It's ex BT and has a speed restrictor limiting me to 70mph.
I've spent hours on the phone to Citroen, taken it to a dealer and even had it remapped. Still restricted to 70mph and no-one seems to know how to remove it.
There is a limit set in the ECU to 60 or 62mph, which has been de-activated and this has been checked now about 5 times. So it has to be something else.
Clive Atthowe in Norwich did the remap and they spent about 4 hours going over and over the van and the software looking for a limiter and nothing.
PLEASE HELP before I go insane!
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20-06-2014, 04:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 20-06-2014, 05:00 PM by homeruk.)
That's a hell of a limiter then!
I would be speaking to bt , finding out who they contracted to install the limiter and getting in touch with them.
Are you able to put the gas pedal to the floor?
How does the accererator work on a mk3? Could it be a physical block like days of old?
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Beat me to it:
http://www.btfleet.com/home.aspx
Looks like they have a fleet subsidary who do servicing & repairs. They may have the info you need.
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24-06-2014, 12:23 PM
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Ok so its back to Citroen , you need to find out the name or names of the people who installed the limiters.
Somebody at Citroen knows....
Lex autolease must know also who at Citroen they spoke to to install the limiters.
Question to the Lexia experts - how do you go about installing a limiter on the ecu?
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24-06-2014, 11:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 24-06-2014, 11:57 PM by Rjw.)
We had a car pass through when I was doing a bit of work for a trader a few years ago that was ex lex autolease. We spent ages trying to find the limiter. They'd fitted a screw like thing on the throttle cable. This limited the revs through each gear though, with the max revs in 5th equating to around 70mph.
I can't remember for definite what car that was on but a Xsara diesel springs to mind.
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25-06-2014, 12:15 PM
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I think I might now have the answer, will have to try when I get home.
Managed to speak to someone at Lex with integrity who said they would find out and come back to me and promptly did, 15min later.
He told me that the records stated that the original Citroen Fleet Services arranged fitting the limiters and even gave me a contact number and name. I have spoken to the contact at Citroen who told me that they could not restrict the speed by the ECU back in 2009 (a lie) and had to out source the limiters to an independent company in Manchester.
I have now spoken to them and they have told me that I should be able to disable the limiter myself and that it was located behind the glove box (of course, silly me!)
What gets me with this whole fiasco is that I originally took it to Citroen to get the restrictor removed and they had no record of it... Why not? are Citroen stuck in 1893 or something? Not heard of computers?
JEEEZ :brickwall::brickwall::brickwall:
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