Nissan Primera P12 in limp mode

Hi,

Can anyone help ?

I’m having problems with my 2004 P12 2.2 DCi SVE hatch.

Sorry this is a bit long winded but I want to give as much info as possible in the hope of finding a fix for the problem.

Problems started about a month ago - as I was driving I got a very strong smell of diesel, I stopped to investigate, lifted the bonnet and found diesel spraying at high pressure from a steel pipe from behind the engine on the driver’s side.

I took the car to a local repairer/breaker he replaced the pipe but said that he couldn’t understand why the pipe had fractured and suspected movement between the fuel pump and engine block.

The pipe fractured again within a couple of miles of driving, I took the car back and the repairer who replaced a fuel pump mounting plate ?? (he did show me damaged parts which looked like a large(ish) bearing housing with two torx head fixing bolts which were badly bent) he said that to replace it he had to take the engine out, he also mentioned that I was fortunate that one of the bolts hadn’t dropped into the timing chain and wrecked the engine.

The car was running fine apart from erratic tick-over which had been present previously, the repairer said that this was probably the suction control valve and it would need replacing in the near future.

The car ran OK for about  two weeks (500 miles) then wouldn’t start one morning, I called the AA out, they got the car started but it would stall at less than 1000 rpm and was then difficult to restart – the AA guy said he suspected air being drawn into the fuel system.

I took it back to the repairer who after investigation found that with the electrical connection to the Suction control valve disconnected it started and ticked over OK.