Hello everyone, I am in desperate need of some advice with regards to the seemingly common lament of the P1A15 error.
My mother bought a 2016 Ion in December. There was only one previous owner and the car has a full service history with a Peugeot dealer and only 15,000 on the clock. We brought it over from London to the Channel Islands for her.
In May the car wouldn’t go into ‘Ready Mode’ and was towed to our local Peugeot dealer. Their diagnostics gave the P1A15 error. They followed Peugeot’s TSB which led them to the water re-heater being the issue. Grudgingly, I paid £2,000 for this part to be replaced.
When my mother finally got the car back with the new part (it had to go to another island for this to be done), she drove it home only for it to not charge that night. It was sent back to the garage to be fixed (I am still trying to find out the details of what this issue was and how it was fixed) and she collected it that same day. Two days later, the car wouldn’t go into ready mode again. The mechanic came out and was able to clear the error, took the car away but they said they couldn’t replicate the error so gave it back to her without doing anything. Two days later, the car wouldn’t start and this time they ran diagnostics, sent the car off island again and said the problem was now the AC Compressor at a cost of £2,200.
I have now seen the technical report which states that this AC Compressor is the same problem, and fault code, as the first issue. I have no faith that another £2,200 is actually going to fix this car, it feels like there is an underlying problem that has been missed.
If there is anyone with similar experience who could offer some advice I would be hugely grateful. I am not technical myself but am reading as widely as I can to be knowledgeable about this problem.
My mother bought a 2016 Ion in December. There was only one previous owner and the car has a full service history with a Peugeot dealer and only 15,000 on the clock. We brought it over from London to the Channel Islands for her.
In May the car wouldn’t go into ‘Ready Mode’ and was towed to our local Peugeot dealer. Their diagnostics gave the P1A15 error. They followed Peugeot’s TSB which led them to the water re-heater being the issue. Grudgingly, I paid £2,000 for this part to be replaced.
When my mother finally got the car back with the new part (it had to go to another island for this to be done), she drove it home only for it to not charge that night. It was sent back to the garage to be fixed (I am still trying to find out the details of what this issue was and how it was fixed) and she collected it that same day. Two days later, the car wouldn’t go into ready mode again. The mechanic came out and was able to clear the error, took the car away but they said they couldn’t replicate the error so gave it back to her without doing anything. Two days later, the car wouldn’t start and this time they ran diagnostics, sent the car off island again and said the problem was now the AC Compressor at a cost of £2,200.
I have now seen the technical report which states that this AC Compressor is the same problem, and fault code, as the first issue. I have no faith that another £2,200 is actually going to fix this car, it feels like there is an underlying problem that has been missed.
If there is anyone with similar experience who could offer some advice I would be hugely grateful. I am not technical myself but am reading as widely as I can to be knowledgeable about this problem.
