Halp! Mondeo fault!

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Hey,

Just driving doing some country lanes on my way south to Birmingham and the coil light started flashing on my Mondeo in conjunction with a massive loss in power :(

It feels like the turbo isn't doing anything which sounds expensive!

Best guesses and suggested course of action? I'm only 30 miles into a 360 mile trip so can easily turn back and cancel plans.

Cheers :)
 
I had something similar, but turning the engine off and back on cleared it most times. Turned out to be the EGR valve and the car was putting itself in limp mode.

Fingers crossed for you its not a turbo gone.
 
Had exactly the same happen to me 2 weeks ago. If you restart the car, is the glow plug light still flashing? It sounds like it went in to limp home mode. It's likely to be a fuel issue of some sort, eithe fuel plump or injectors. I'm getting my car back tomorrow, hopefully the injector replacement fixes it!
 
No it disappears if I switch the car off for 10 mins but it comes back pretty quickly. Decided to call the trip off and have gone home now. Well I say home but I mean the pub first :p
 
If it is the EGR valve, I read lots online about cleaning it out and things being ok. I just got mine replaced by ford and it wasn't a massive bill tbh.
 
If it is the EGR valve, I read lots online about cleaning it out and things being ok. I just got mine replaced by ford and it wasn't a massive bill tbh.

Yeah carb cleaner and a few hours (if you're a noob)

I might attempt mine before I re-list it as it can help with the idle and smooth the running a wee bit
 
sounds like limp mode.

It happened to me in a 1.6 polo tdi. Flashing coil light and no power. Managed to limp to my destination. Wierdly it went away when I brimmed it with diesel. RAC had checked it and there was no cross contamination of fuel.
 
re-list? was that £40 wasted on autotrader then? I hate selling cars.

yeah, I had a bloke hand me the cash I was upto about 4.5k in 20's and then he said 'actually I'm gonna leave it' - so then he had to recount it too. Too 'kin ages.
 
yeah, I had a bloke hand me the cash I was upto about 4.5k in 20's and then he said 'actually I'm gonna leave it' - so then he had to recount it too. Too 'kin ages.

what a penis. hope you raged him.

had no idea the mondeo was worth that much though, no offence:p
 
Had that on a car for the company.. EGR valve. Cutting out at warp speed in lane three was errr, different.

Yeah, could also be EGR. I plugged my OBD reader in and I had fuel metering issue. A stuck open EGR valve might be the cause too.

If it's EGR valve, it's a relatively cheap fix (a little as a can of carb cleaner, or as much as a replacement valve.

If it's injectors, it'll be pretty expensive. You can either get the injector(s) refurbished, or get new set of remanufactured injector(s) and re-coded to the ECU.
 
It will be the Turbo Actuator, I have had mine go a couple of times, the first two times I repaired it myself, as it was just some dry solder joints. Then the last time I couldn't find the fault on the PCB so purchased a recon Turbo off the 'bay' and just swapped over the Actuator.

To tell if its the actuator, lift the bonnet, and start the engine, you can see the actuator through the gap at the bottom of the windscreen, its the black box with a small rod going to the side of the turbo, with the engine running blip the throttle you should see the rod move slightly, what happens when the actuator fails is that as you blip the throttle the ECU puts the engine into limp mode which moves the actuator to the fully open position. The adjusts the variable vains on the turbo to fully open and as such you get no boost pressure, hence no power.

To fix, if you any good with a soldering iron, remove the 'C' clip on the actuator where it connects to the rod, and swing the rod out of the way, then there are 3x 8mm bolts remove these and then electrical plug on the actuator. Then remove the 6 or 7 clips that holds the actuator together you can then split it into two. once apart you will see the PCB board with about 7 'jumper' wires going from the PCB board to casing, it's these joints that go faulty. I just soldered some more wire between the PCB and casing, which did me good for about 2 years & 60,000 miles.

This was the only fault I found when the coil light would flash, I have had issues where the hose from intercooler to EGR popped off (After I had been cleaning the EGR and forgot to fully tighten the jubilee clip :)) this gave a lose of power and an engine management light but not flashing coil lights.

The above only counts if you have an electrical Actuator, some of the earlier Mondeos had a mechanical one fitted.

Mike
 
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