Engine Service Now & Limp Mode

[Joe Kay]

Hi, not sure if anyone can help me. I’ve had my 2017 Ford Focus ST Line for just over a year and over the last few months at random times I get an indication on the dash saying ‘Engine service Now’ and the car instantly goes into Limp Mode. When I turn the engine off and back on it goes back to normal again. This has happened around 5 or 6 times over the last 6 months at any random time. I have had the car plugged into a diagnostic however there are no errors and the engine is ‘sound’ according to the mechanic? Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance.

[Luke4efc]

There will be a fault code. It will be a Ford specific one that needs Forscan (or equivalent) to read it rather than generic code readers.

You might need to take a laptop with you and plug it in when the fault happens, it may also reset when you switch the engine off.

[Nuno Portela]

I had 2 times that warning but at the second time, the engine was making a weird noise and a lot of vibration.

Since it's still in waranty (7 years), i've send it to the  workshop

 

in the Fordpass app..

 

Ford Focus Station 2018 ST line 1.0 125 ecoboost

[Vince31]

On 1/19/2022 at 10:08 PM, Joe Kay said:

Hi, not sure if anyone can help me. I’ve had my 2017 Ford Focus ST Line for just over a year and over the last few months at random times I get an indication on the dash saying ‘Engine service Now’ and the car instantly goes into Limp Mode. When I turn the engine off and back on it goes back to normal again. This has happened around 5 or 6 times over the last 6 months at any random time. I have had the car plugged into a diagnostic however there are no errors and the engine is ‘sound’ according to the mechanic? Does anyone know what could be causing this?

Thanks in advance.

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