Help! Engine fault.

tres · 30 Jun 2015 at 16:56

Hi all,
My 08 Ford Focus 1.6 has been working perfectly - I had a full service done a few months ago. It worked fine going to work, but got in the car and it came up on the screen

"REDUCED ACCELERATION"
then
"ENGINE SYSTEMS FAULT"

I plugged in an OBDII reader which I happened to randomly have in the car, and it came up with this:

What does this mean? I just drove it home, which was fine, just a delay before slow accelerating.
Help! I rang a local Arnold Clark garage and they wanted £75 to plug it in themselves for their diagnostics! Am I screwed and have to go down this route? I'm only a student and can't afford much!

PS. I tried to 'clear' the fault using the OBDII but it just reoccurs every time I start the car

tres · 30 Jun 2015 at 17:36

Thanks acemastr. Does this have to be a Ford garage, or any indy could do it?

tres · 30 Jun 2015 at 17:46

Many thanks. I'll try the independent garage tomorrow.
My abilities are non-existent unfortunately!

tres · 30 Jun 2015 at 20:52

Thanks Rick. I will jump lead up to the missus's car tomorrow and see if it helps

tres · 1 Jul 2015 at 13:08

Dogbreath said:
Jump starting the car won't help to charge the battery. It will only be low if you are doing a lot of short trips, or there is an underlying fault in the charging system. A simple voltage check with a multimeter would confirm or rule out this relatively unlikely possibility.

I thought about connected the other battery to help to see if a low voltage in my own was causing it? Unfortunately no multimeter here. Maybe I'll go and find one

leigh_boy said:
does you car have cruise control?
if so it might be the pedal switch not the TPS, and the tps might have moved position not actually faulty.

It doesn't have cruise control. I wish it did, as I looked to retrofit it but is missing the switch from the brake.

Update - I went to start it this morning and nothing! it started fine, without any accelerator reduction or error messages. This is possibly more frustrating if it's a random error!

tres · 2 Jul 2015 at 09:50

Much appreciated, thanks chaps. I'll get a new battery sorted today

tres · 5 Jul 2015 at 21:19

Thanks Rick and Stormster

Had a new battery put in, no sign of the error, flawless running again. Much appreciated