gwhite73

 

Not much help for us guys unfortunately, but it looks as though foreign spec Fiestas do have an auto lock option.  At 0:37 the doors are unlocked (the little orange LED is out), but when he drives the car forward and the speed goes up (albeit on axle stands), at 1:29 the doors look like they've locked themselves?

 

I guess there would be completely different modules/software for these cars though, and I suppose there's more hijackings in Mexico.

Apparently when you turn your demisters on this activates the AC though and id hazard a guess you've beeb using the demistor function recentlt with the weather?

it only does that if you turn the dial all the way to the demister setting.  if you leave it one notch before , you still get air blowing towards the windscreen but the AC doesn't activate.

Mine's a 1.4 tdci and does it too -- it's definitely not the metal 'pinging', it sounds in too much of a rapid sequence for that.  I think it sounds like relays resetting or something like that

 

 

Listen to this video, when the guy shuts the engine off you hear the same noise

 

I think it's normal - nothing to do with the AC though as mine has been off for ages

 

edit: video doesn't seem to be working try this youtube.com/watch?v=h73iNUNOhPU

Also if you hold the accelerator all the way down it doesn't put any fuel in at all, supposed to be for if the engine was flooded, so it'll never start if you have the accelerator pushed all the way - no fuel is getting in.

I too notice the same with my 1.4 tdci, I have to have the heat set on maximum and the blowers on at least 2 or 3 to get any sort of decent heating out of it. Perhaps it's the diesels that seem to suffer from this?

In my old Mk6 petrol it would be roasting if you had the heat on full. The air con doesn't seem to blow as cold as it did in the Mk6 either...