PROBLEM NOW FIXED
Hi all,
Some of you may be aware of the problems I have had with my car, over the past year and its now got to a point where if I don't manage to fix it by early 2011, I will have to get rid of it as long journeys make me feel stressed - I always feel I'm going to end up on the hard-shoulder.
Car:
Mondeo 2002 1.8 duratec 132,000 miles (previously owned by my Dad who pretty much only ever used this car on motorway to work, so the engine should be in excellent condition.)
The Problem:
Car will misfire 2krpm+ happens every couple of minutes usually but sometimes I can do a 2-3miles journey and not have any problems, its worst on the motorway, it feels like it just misses one cylinder and then is fine again and is especially bad on a long hill with slight gradient.
This I put up with, until about a month ago when car cut out completely, was driving along motorway, all of a sudden all dials go to 0, odometer and temp readouts blank out and interior light came on; after about 10secs of slowing down, I dropped a gear for a bit of engine braking to pull onto hard shoulder and as I lift up clutch the engine immediately restarts and is back to normal. Wondering what had just happened I continued my journey doing about 50mph in nearside lane and travel for about another mile and it happens again - this time the engine doesn't restart and I pulled onto the hard shoulder. Restarted car and all was back to normal.
I'm convinced the misfiring and this cut-out are connected.
I have replaced obvious things, HT leads have been replaced twice, coil pack, spark plugs, few other bits as well.
Fault codes been read (was nothing on there at all)
Had local independent drive and check whole car over and he found nothing. He couldn't get it to misfire but then again, he just went around town - not on motorways when it happens most. He also rung a ford garage who had never encountered that problem.
I really hope somebody can help
Hi all,
Some of you may be aware of the problems I have had with my car, over the past year and its now got to a point where if I don't manage to fix it by early 2011, I will have to get rid of it as long journeys make me feel stressed - I always feel I'm going to end up on the hard-shoulder.
Car:
Mondeo 2002 1.8 duratec 132,000 miles (previously owned by my Dad who pretty much only ever used this car on motorway to work, so the engine should be in excellent condition.)
The Problem:
Car will misfire 2krpm+ happens every couple of minutes usually but sometimes I can do a 2-3miles journey and not have any problems, its worst on the motorway, it feels like it just misses one cylinder and then is fine again and is especially bad on a long hill with slight gradient.
This I put up with, until about a month ago when car cut out completely, was driving along motorway, all of a sudden all dials go to 0, odometer and temp readouts blank out and interior light came on; after about 10secs of slowing down, I dropped a gear for a bit of engine braking to pull onto hard shoulder and as I lift up clutch the engine immediately restarts and is back to normal. Wondering what had just happened I continued my journey doing about 50mph in nearside lane and travel for about another mile and it happens again - this time the engine doesn't restart and I pulled onto the hard shoulder. Restarted car and all was back to normal.
I'm convinced the misfiring and this cut-out are connected.
I have replaced obvious things, HT leads have been replaced twice, coil pack, spark plugs, few other bits as well.
Fault codes been read (was nothing on there at all)
Had local independent drive and check whole car over and he found nothing. He couldn't get it to misfire but then again, he just went around town - not on motorways when it happens most. He also rung a ford garage who had never encountered that problem.
I really hope somebody can help
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