"JohnR" wrote in message
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I have an Accord Tourer 2.2 ictdi, had the car for about 7 months now, a
few weeks ago the heater coil display light came on whilst driving under
acceleration, the car went into "limp mode" after a minute or so of steady
away driving it went off.
A friend who is an RAC patrolman plugged into his diagnostic computer and
the fault was a camshaft position sensor fault, we renewed the sensor
£85.00+ vat, cleared the fault code and tried it, the heater coil light
again came on again and car in limp mode.

This illustrates why you shouldn't trust error codes - they do NOT always
show
the real problem or the cause. I would be asking him for the £85+VAT if he
give an
incorrect diagnosis. Not much good if he can only read fault codes without
knowing how to make a proper diagnosis.

Diagnosed it again, this time it showed a P1065 fault code, which I
understand is a Honda fault code.

So did you Google it, or join any of the Honda forums to find out more?
Mr RAC should be able to tell you what it means otherwise he isn't much use!

The car starts and runs fine until you accelerate maybe to 3000 rpm then
the engine faulters and if you persist it will go into limp mode.

That is because your MAF sensor has gone - you need to look at it closely.

I am going to put it in for a major sevice pretty soon when finances
allow, just wondered if anyone has any experience of similar.

No need for a major service, it will be cheaper to get a Honda dealer to fix
it
rather than keep listening to "oh let's try this" from your mate. His
apparent
lack of knowledge will cost you a fortune. he doesn't really know what's
wrong
with it, he is guessing. Terrible when he doesn't know what codes can point
to!

The fuel filter does not look like it has been changed recently and when I
spoke to the main dealer they said some problems had been experienced if
fuel filters were not changed regularly....Could it possibly be a fuel
flow fault, was my recent thought.

Only if the filter is blocked - in which case Mr RAC would get a few
different error codes
pointing to that. The filters don't need to be changed that often, you
would notice poor
performance over time until it packed in. The error code will not say
"change the filter",
it might show a few other things such as injector concerns or emission
warnings.

Any help appreciated.

John