In the last few days my 2010 Mondeo, 2.0l TDCi seems to have a fault. When putting my foot down I get a delayed pickup judder (almost like the car is trying to stall, but the speed I'm going it picks itself up again).

At lights just after this particular instance it stalled as I got to the lights, it restarted, few seconds later, stalled again......restarted and was fine (apart from putting my foot down and it "stammering"). At the next round about, I went round a corner(at slow speed) and just after, the car seem to try to stall "Engine Malfunction" appeared on the dash with 'ok' on, I quickly dropped the clutch, expecting a stall but the engine continued to run, I hit "ok" and finalised the 1/2 mile to my destination.

I borrow a neighbours ODB device using "torque" on the phone and it stated there were no ECU logs present....so I am at a bit of a loss.

Has anyone else experienced this or something similar, or have any suggestions as to the cause?

Battery appears fine (V wise) and alternator seems to be charging it.

It has been rather cold recently, but I've not had this issue before. It's done circa 75,000 miles.

Any help/advice/suggestions would be gratefully received.

TIA

Stuart

 

If you've seen the Engine malfunction message then a fault will have been logged.

You need to use a code reader capable of reading all of Ford's specific codes, not just generic DTCs.

Forscan is good for this.

It's done it before (on Weds) so I'll try again with the OCB reader when it happens next time - can't remember if I cleared the logs after it said they were none (just to have it clean for next time). Apparently my neighbour has another more advanced OCB too...so can try that once the engine malfunction comes up again and see what it reports - hopefully something meaningful. Cheers Alex!

4 hours ago, Sp8eu said:

I'll try again with the OCB reader when it happens next time

Generic code readers often do not read Ford specific DTC's.

Use FORScan: https://forscan.org/download.html