Taxi life with a wanked out converted french panel van

[Panel]

Did a service for the Peugeot Partner today, as a lockdown project I took some photos as a how to.

Oilchange 1st, jack it up take down the undercover (10mm bolts), you'll see a 21mm sump nut bolt



once its draining remove the filter, as its a elemement type its in a housing a 27mm nut holds it in



Remove the filter and compate it against the new one and replace the seal







Refit the filter and top up the oil.

[Panel]

Air filter is located at the top of the engine, awkward to access and you'll have to unbolt the brake fluid top up for access

Its held in by three Torx T25 bolts







Once ya have the old filter out compare it against the new one, and refit

[Panel]

Fuel filter, a bit more involved.




At the top of the filter theres 3 pipes going to the filter, the two pointed out are push in clips



Push down on the clips and pull back on the pipe



Theres a multi plug connector, and a winged white plug, pull up on the tab and slip off the connectors





The filter housing is held in by two 8mm bolts



Once you've the filter housing and filter out you've to separate them, three torx T20 bolts hold it to the body and youve a tab to turn clockwise to release





once you've it separated it should look like this, again compare it to the new filter



Replace the seal and refit the filter in its housing and body, once youve done this you'll have to prime the diesel pump, as pointed out below, you've to manually pump it until it gets hard, once the pump becomes hard and not returning you know the filter is full.

[Panel]

Resetting the service light;

With the keys out of the ignition press the button on the right hand side of the instrument clocks,



then still holding the button turn the ignition to the red lights on the dashboard there will be a count down from 10 to 0



once it reaches zero, turn off the ignition and then turn the ignition back on, it should be reset to 12500



And thats the service light reset

[Cool Boola]

Jeys Panel....very impressive.....Do you be doing the services and fixes for cash for us brothers?

[Panel]

eolys top up, 

There during the summer it threw up a warning on the dash ''Engine fault, DPF fluid Low, Risk of DPF clogging'',

Theres a secondary mini tank in these vans that injects DPF fluid (this is not adblue) into the DPF to lower emissions, theres no level in the tank the level is calculated by every time you refill with diesel the more you open the fuel cap the less the car thinks it has in the tank.

I bought the top up from Irish auto parts;  https://www.irishautoparts.ie/jlm-j02260-5

And the transfer hoses; https://www.irishautoparts.ie/jlm-j02270-4

As its a WAV converted vehicle to accommodate the wheelchair ramp the converters had to relocate the tank to the Near side front behind the radiator, on non converted Partners its located under the fuel tank.

Open the bonnet and look to the lower right and side of the engine bay and it should be there



Theres a small return on the top of the tank, unclip it and clip in the refill kit



Screw it into the refill bottle and gravity fill the tank (it will take a while)



Its a handy kit and the cheapest i could find online.



Only thing i couldnt do was rest the message on the dashboard, my local friendly garage charged me €30 to reset it, For around €100 i cleared the fault, for pig iron I phoned another non franchised garage to get a quote to refill and rest the DPF message, they quoted €350. Saving €250.

[Panel]

Jeys Panel....very impressive.....Do you be doing the services and fixes for cash for us brothers?

Cheers coola, nah Just like to keep me heep shipshape

[Panel]

Once common problem with these vans is it sits much lower on the rear to accommodate the wheelchair ramp coupled with squishy french suspension and shite irish roads its common for the ramp to clip speed bumps and pot holes especially with a full car.

There is a retro fix and its cheap enough; https://www.amazon.co.uk/GRAYSTON-SPRING-ASSISTERS-RAISER-18-25MM/dp/B0047G81H2/ref=sr_1_16?crid=3UI1OD2FMT8GT&dchild=1&keywords=spring+assistors&qid=1611886680&s=automotive&sprefix=spring+assi%2Cautomotive%2C158&sr=1-16

These raise and harden the suspension, easy enough to fit jack up the car and slide the asissisters into the springs and lower the car onto them

[Shallowhal]

Nice little tutorial Panel.....when all dem foreign drivers join the forum they'll be saving themselves millions.

[Cool Boola]

Jeys Panel....very impressive.....Do you be doing the services and fixes for cash for us brothers?

Cheers coola, nah Just like to keep me heep shipshape

Thats a pity...I would say you would do a good job with your knowledge and Im sure you would not be like some of them robbing bastarddss who take advantage 

[Belker]

Wow !  Fair Dinkum Panel !
You lost me on the very First post,
I just pay my mechanic what ever he asks fer !

[mercenary for hire]

Nice thread Panel.

[Taxi driver42]

Are they any good them Van's? Lots around but do they give trouble with dpf,?

[Panel]

Are they any good them Van's? Lots around but do they give trouble with dpf,?

As per reply #5 on this thread topping up the DPF eloys fluid I haven’t had a issue, I try and throw a bottle of diepatane into the tank every 5k or so and give it an Italian tune up.

I’ll have the van 3 years in July and aside from the DPF top up nothing major has gone wrong.

[Rat Catcher]

€35 to erase a fucking code... shocked is an understatement. Are them French panel vans not OBDII compliant?