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Ford Focus Reducing Power

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  • 05-06-2011 1:55pm
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    charleocoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭


    Hello,

    I have a ford focus 2002 model TDCI. For quite a while now when trying to accelerate hard the glow plug light flashes and the car reduces power, as it reduces power the more I try to push it the more the power decreases and then sometimes it continues to reduce till it stops completely. This can be cured by turning the iginition off and on again and then it seems to be fine till i try to push it again.

    ~I was told it could be the trottle pedal or the fuel pump. If it is the fuel pump i refuse to pay 1000 euro on a car thats worth about 2500 euro.

    This is becoming seriously annoying and dangerous, I need to get it sorted.

    Can anybody help me please?

    Thanks very much in advance,
    Charles.
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    Plug
    Registered Users Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    IDS that sh!t gangsta!


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    #3
    charleocoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭charleocoyle


    did mate code p0251 showing...

    checked the code up elsewhere everybody seems to have a different opinion..


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    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    The code says: taking from talkford.co.uk
    Fault code P0251 Injection pump fuel metering control A


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    charleocoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭charleocoyle


    what does that stand for? does that mean a new fuel pump or a new throttle pedal or bad earth connection or sensor problem


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    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Did ford check your car with the code scanner. Any ole scanner won't do as ford use specific ids readers.


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    charleocoyle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭charleocoyle


    I got it checked on a ford computer butit was a favour from a friend so i only got the code thats my problem.


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    Gumbyman2000
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Gumbyman2000


    Howdy. I have a focus (just about - dying). Not sure if this is the same problem but drove me mental and most mechanics could not spot what was wrong. The symptom was that when I put the foot down the engine would judder and I would lose power. Randomly, not all the time, and infuriatingly not reproducible when mechanic drove it. Turns out that the coil pack is corroded. Ask a mechanic to check the coil pack and also check that the leads to the spark plugs are connected properly.

    Good luck.


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    zilog_jones
    Registered Users Posts: 6,641 ✭✭✭zilog_jones


    The OP's car is a diesel - no coil packs or spark plugs in them :)


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    shawnee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    charleocoyle wrote: »
    Hello,

    I have a ford focus 2002 model TDCI. For quite a while now when trying to accelerate hard the glow plug light flashes and the car reduces power, as it reduces power the more I try to push it the more the power decreases and then sometimes it continues to reduce till it stops completely. This can be cured by turning the iginition off and on again and then it seems to be fine till i try to push it again.

    ~I was told it could be the trottle pedal or the fuel pump. If it is the fuel pump i refuse to pay 1000 euro on a car thats worth about 2500 euro.

    This is becoming seriously annoying and dangerous, I need to get it sorted.

    Can anybody help me please?

    Thanks very much in advance,
    Charles.

    Had similar intermittent problem with a focus and a worse one with a mondeo both tdci engines. Like yourself it is difficult to get a straight answer to the problem and many will change injectors pumps etc and hope for the best (at your expense):confused:


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    Gumbyman2000
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭Gumbyman2000


    zilog_jones wrote: »
    The OP's car is a diesel - no coil packs or spark plugs in them :)

    Doh! Showing my ignorance here. ;)


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    irishh_bob
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,700 ✭✭✭irishh_bob


    charleocoyle wrote: »
    Hello,

    I have a ford focus 2002 model TDCI. For quite a while now when trying to accelerate hard the glow plug light flashes and the car reduces power, as it reduces power the more I try to push it the more the power decreases and then sometimes it continues to reduce till it stops completely. This can be cured by turning the iginition off and on again and then it seems to be fine till i try to push it again.

    ~I was told it could be the trottle pedal or the fuel pump. If it is the fuel pump i refuse to pay 1000 euro on a car thats worth about 2500 euro.

    This is becoming seriously annoying and dangerous, I need to get it sorted.

    Can anybody help me please?

    Thanks very much in advance,
    Charles.


    i have th exact same problem with my 2005 ford focus , let me ask you a few questions

    does this tend to happen when the car is doing a decent speed , i.e , over 60 mph , with my car , it started like this but now its happening at even lower speeds ?

    i would describe my experience as that of loosing all acceleration and finding myself litterally freewheeling along with no response from the trottle , my only way of rectifying the problem was to pull in and turn off the engine and restart , restarting always always sorted the problem btw

    does the loss of acceleration coincide with a message on screen which reads , engine default ?

    if so then what you have been told about the trottle pedal is incorrect , ive been told the problem is both electrical and turbo related , ive also been told that the ford focus diesel is known for giving trouble in this regard , was advised by posters on a thread i started about this to contact BLACKCHURCH motors in dublin , they are ford specialists as opposed to ford dealers , i hope to call into them in the coming week


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    Hal1
    Registered Users Posts: 8,720 ✭✭✭Hal1


    How about cleaning the EGR valve. It can get full of carbon / soot etc. I've attached a clip showing this. Just look near the end at what comes out the exhaust :eek:.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhYk3Mm8HQ


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    shawnee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,830 ✭✭✭shawnee


    Some sh.. out of the exhaust after that, have never even heard anyone mentioning that as a possible problem.:p


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    maidhc
    Registered Users Posts: 7,500 ✭✭✭maidhc


    charleocoyle wrote: »
    ~I was told it could be the trottle pedal or the fuel pump. If it is the fuel pump i refuse to pay 1000 euro on a car thats worth about 2500 euro.

    This is becoming seriously annoying and dangerous, I need to get it sorted.

    Can anybody help me please?

    Go to a diesel specialist or decent mechanic. Asking a question like this on boards is like entering it into a random answer generator. The car needs to be looked at.

    I'd suspect you are looking a decent sized bill, and you will be left with the procrustean choice of paying lots of money or walking.


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    dbentham
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭dbentham


    Sounds expensive anyway. I know somebody who has a diesel passat with the same symptoms and it's an injector problem :(


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    notsobadinc
    Registered Users Posts: 61 ✭✭notsobadinc


    hi..i have this problem also-spent 1100 last week getting all the injectors reconditioned and still no jo...ford cant explaIN IT and it never comes on when they have it...:)


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