Hiya,

 

Sorry everyone this may turn into a fairly long post with maybe only a few questions but I'll try keep it fairly brief!

I like to plan and be prepared etc I'm collecting my focus 1.6 tdci 2010 model on saturday after not owning a car for some 12 years or something. BUT I like to fairly quickly get a handle on my cars and make sure I've covered most common bases for silly failures. I was a ford mechanic through my apprenticeship and 8 years following that but things have moved on:

- I've read loads of DPF horrors and many threads about DPF fluid. Does the focus hatch have the eolys tank (maybe spelt wrong?) I've seen loads of videos of filling them but all seem to be on C-max and I can't quite get my head around which cars do and which cars don't and read a lot about some engines have a different type of DPF and don't need the PAT fluid?

- What are the must check items? Should I expect a code free car when I plug into it or do they throw random codes over time - i.e. should I be worried if theres heaps of codes or jsut delete them and monitor?

- I've bought a service kit and timing belt kit and water pump as theres no history to prove or disprove when they were done, all I can say is the covers appear to have been off in the past. So they will be my do quickly jobs and while I've got in pieces to do the timing belt I may as well go the whole hog.

 

I'll have lots more questions - I'd like to upgrade steering wheel etc but I'll start with the major stuff lol

Thanks

2 hours ago, bantam_dave21 said:

Hiya,

 

Sorry everyone this may turn into a fairly long post with maybe only a few questions but I'll try keep it fairly brief!

I like to plan and be prepared etc I'm collecting my focus 1.6 tdci 2010 model on saturday after not owning a car for some 12 years or something. BUT I like to fairly quickly get a handle on my cars and make sure I've covered most common bases for silly failures. I was a ford mechanic through my apprenticeship and 8 years following that but things have moved on:

- I've read loads of DPF horrors and many threads about DPF fluid. Does the focus hatch have the eolys tank (maybe spelt wrong?) I've seen loads of videos of filling them but all seem to be on C-max and I can't quite get my head around which cars do and which cars don't and read a lot about some engines have a different type of DPF and don't need the PAT fluid?

- What are the must check items? Should I expect a code free car when I plug into it or do they throw random codes over time - i.e. should I be worried if theres heaps of codes or jsut delete them and monitor?

- I've bought a service kit and timing belt kit and water pump as theres no history to prove or disprove when they were done, all I can say is the covers appear to have been off in the past. So they will be my do quickly jobs and while I've got in pieces to do the timing belt I may as well go the whole hog.

 

I'll have lots more questions - I'd like to upgrade steering wheel etc but I'll start with the major stuff lol

Thanks

The early Focus models were Eolys Fluid ones but the later ones were not. I had a 2010 Euro5 one and that did not.

There is no DPF Injector on these cars, the extra fuel is added via the normal Injectors and part closing the Throttle Valve.

When you get set up with FORScan you can Live Monitor the Differential Pressure to gauge how clogged up the DPF is. There was no Implied Soot loads for my car either in FORScan or IDS, There might have been on the earlier Euro4 ones.

Best just to note any codes and clear them, then see if any come back.

The rather expensive Diesel filters do clog up and need changing more often than Ford recommend and it is a pig of a job because there is no lift pump arrangement and the rear Drums stick badly if parked up when wet and need taken off quite often to clear the dust out.

Thanks for that...

I think mine is a 2009 on a 2010 plate. doesn't euro 5 mean adblue etc? I'll know more tomorrow, I'm guessing if it did have eolys it would have the magnet on the filler flap like the cmax's that I have seen.

I'll make fuel filter first job then, I think somewhere I still have a pump set with the bulb type pump you can use to manually pull fuel through - must find that I think it could be useful. years ago I sue to submerge awkward filters in fuel until the air stopped coming out but not sure how viable that is on these. I don't particularly fancy killing a battery trying to pull it through.

I've seen a thread somewhere on acceptable or more usual figures for diff pressure across the dpf so yea will look at live data hopefully soon.

thanks 

6 minutes ago, bantam_dave21 said:

 

I think mine is a 2009 on a 2010 plate. doesn't euro 5 mean adblue etc

Not with these ones. The Euro5 ones were a bit of a poor attempt by Ford and they changed lots of things for the Mk3.

I wouldn't rush to do the filter, if it badly needs changed it will either go into Limp Mode  or the EML light will come on with a fault code for Fuel Rail Pressure.