Driving home today and Ford Focus (20067 Ghia) started to shudder and then cut out.

Started it and sounded fine, reved ok etc started to move forward and it cut out and again and engine light came on.

Had it recovered home as I was only a couple of miles away. Recovery driver managed to reverse it off the truck fine, but as soon as started to try going forward cut out.

He used the diagnostic machine and it came back with codes P2300 and P2303. A quick google shows this as a coil pack issue.

Just wondered if anyone had had this before and a likely cost to fix? Have a mobile mechanic coming out in the morning

i haven't had this before but it could just be a dodgy electrical connector that needs a squirt of wd40 and reseating. 

I have this exact issue with my 2006 ti 1.6 vvt today. Was it coil pack in the end, wiring or something else?

Anyone else it was the cables from the coil pack to the main wiring loom had worn through. Mine had to bend at quite an angle without much protection.

Temp fix to get home was Screwfix cable connectors.

I had to get a new coil pack wire connector (match the old and new wire colours), solder this to the old wires and get some wire protection (plastic shrink) around the join. Also rapped the wires next to the wiring loom in anti-vibration tape and cut back the outside loom protection a bit (be careful there are lots of wires).

I did replace the coil pack\Spark plugs as well - but I don't think i needed to. First check the wiring from the coil pack to the loom.

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1 hour ago, MrPink99 said:

I did replace the coil pack\Spark plugs as well

I had same symptoms just a few weeks back. Car stuttering on the verge of stalling, engine management light on. A new coil pack/HT leads sorted it out, seems like 2005/2006 cars have just lasted the duration of this item.