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Any Ford techs frequent here now?
Got a Focus 2.0tdci Titanium on a 58 plate, bad running. Problems are:
Hard to start when cold, when it initially fires up it runs very badly and chucks a load of blue/grey smoke out for 6 to 10 seconds.
Has a light misfire between 1,500 and 1,800rpm when on very light throttle at all temperatures
Slight misfire at idle
Poor fuel consumption when used locally, does high 40's on a run.
Some evidence of black smoke under load like up hill.
Very small particles of gold coloured swarf (smaller than sugar grains), a very small amount, in the bowl that holds the fuel filter.
Oddly the performance is fine, it pulls well on anything above 1/4qtr throttle in any gear.
So far it's had:
Battery and glow plugs checked - all fine.
Terraclean run though.
Leak back test done - all fine.
Fresh fuel filter although the old one had only done 3k.
Injectors checked - 2 were bad, so replaced 2 and re-coded. Unfortunately one of these was giving odd live readings when it went back in after 200 miles, so awaiting a replacement although the garage don't anticipate it sorting the issue - they are concerned that something is damaging the injectors, will know on this tomorrow.
It's having a hot and cold compression test tomorrow.
I'm up to £800 so far, and next step is a replacement high pressure pump which i'm led to believe will be another £800 plus. Before I give the go ahead to sort the pump has anyone else had one of these play up like this? It's done 107k which is nothing for one of these.
Car is only worth a couple of grand, but it has a really high spec and I can't find anything to replace it with that has the same spec
but at the same time not looking forward to spending the value of the car to get it sorted.
Totally pi$$ed off with it, our BMW cost me £450 last week too and to top it off our central heating boiler is playing up - been an expensive 2 weeks, looks like it'll continue.
Got a Focus 2.0tdci Titanium on a 58 plate, bad running. Problems are:
Hard to start when cold, when it initially fires up it runs very badly and chucks a load of blue/grey smoke out for 6 to 10 seconds.
Has a light misfire between 1,500 and 1,800rpm when on very light throttle at all temperatures
Slight misfire at idle
Poor fuel consumption when used locally, does high 40's on a run.
Some evidence of black smoke under load like up hill.
Very small particles of gold coloured swarf (smaller than sugar grains), a very small amount, in the bowl that holds the fuel filter.
Oddly the performance is fine, it pulls well on anything above 1/4qtr throttle in any gear.
So far it's had:
Battery and glow plugs checked - all fine.
Terraclean run though.
Leak back test done - all fine.
Fresh fuel filter although the old one had only done 3k.
Injectors checked - 2 were bad, so replaced 2 and re-coded. Unfortunately one of these was giving odd live readings when it went back in after 200 miles, so awaiting a replacement although the garage don't anticipate it sorting the issue - they are concerned that something is damaging the injectors, will know on this tomorrow.
It's having a hot and cold compression test tomorrow.
I'm up to £800 so far, and next step is a replacement high pressure pump which i'm led to believe will be another £800 plus. Before I give the go ahead to sort the pump has anyone else had one of these play up like this? It's done 107k which is nothing for one of these.
Car is only worth a couple of grand, but it has a really high spec and I can't find anything to replace it with that has the same spec
but at the same time not looking forward to spending the value of the car to get it sorted.Totally pi$$ed off with it, our BMW cost me £450 last week too and to top it off our central heating boiler is playing up - been an expensive 2 weeks, looks like it'll continue.
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