KA woes...

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Hello,

Last night I started getting a flashing engine light on my 2003 Ford KA. While accelerating the car shakes and stutters quite violently throughout the chassis, along with losing a lot of it's acceleration (didn't have much to begin with but that's a different story!). When in idle the shaking is still going on as well.

The car still drives but I abondoned my trip down the M1 last night as I didn't fancy breaking down at 70MPH.

It's going into the garage in a bit, but any ideas on what it might be and more importantly...what it's going to cost?

Thanks,

Tom
 
Sounds like it's Missing, Which means it's only firing on 3 cylinders, Prob the 4th is coming in on high revs.
Could be anything,
Cheap would be a dodgey HT lead or a duff spark plug.
Dear would be you have burnt a whole in your piston through thrashing it to much :p
 
Thanks for the help...

malc30 said:
Cheap would be a dodgey HT lead or a duff spark plug.
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It was serviced not so long ago...so the chances of it being these are less?

malc30 said:
Dear would be you have burnt a whole in your piston through thrashing it to much :p
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It has done 80,000 miles, I don't thrash it excessively but it does get driven hard. The problem just began to happen on the way home from work yesterday, began after accelerating reasonably hard of a roundabout.

Why do I get the feeling Christmas is going to be even more expensive this year!
 
Could be anything mate dont take what I wrote as gospel for ***** sake :p
Hardest thing in the world is to diagnose without having the motor in front of you & to do it by text is nigh on impossible.
Just fingers crossed till they ring ;)

Give more symptons & lets have a Guess :cool:
 
my gf's 2000 ford ka does this, only when its been damp.

took it in for a diagnostic but came back all fine, she just lives with it lol.

i am sure its the leads or sparks but the garage recon they changed them, and gf doesnt want to fork out more money on it.
 
Agree on the missing. As said, HT leads and plugs would be the cheap fix, bit more expensive would be the coil pack (does it have a coil pack as such?) If its not any of them its time to get the cheque book out
 
MuvverRussia said:
Coil pack possibly.

Definitely sounds like it is misfiring to me though.
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Common fault as well, around £35 for a new one. 2 Screws 4 HT leads and a 2 pin plug is all the work needed to change it.

Best to check plugs & borrow some HT leads first to rule them out, or if its doing it on tickover swap them around to see if the cylinder that's misfiring changes(turn the engine off when swapping HT leads).
 
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