First of all, don’t come at me - female and I’ll cry! 
 

My car has been perfect since I bought her last March.
Mk3.5 2l petrol with Mountune induction kit (already installed and tuned when purchased) 

Past couple of weeks I’ve noticed she’s not pulling as good as she used to and when I increase speed, the turbo needle moves to maybe 1/4 of the way and I haven’t got the usual turbo noise but once I get to 5th and 6th gear and push that bit further, my revs shoot up (no extra power) until I take my foot off and reapply. If I don’t push and I’m ‘careful’ then I don’t get this ‘rev’ but I can’t tell it will happen. 

I did quite a long drive last week. Let her cool down. Turned off ignition. Got back in 10 mins later and got ‘engine service now’ and she was in limp mode. This has happened once before months back but nothing came of it. 
Turned ignition off then back on and she drove home fine? Plugged in obd and there aren’t any error codes. I’m stumped. 
I’ve cleaned two sensors under the bonnet (maf - although I’ve been told she doesn’t have a maf, she has something else? And map) I’ve noticed she’s not as ‘stuttery’ but this issue is still there. 
Of course I’m going to book her in but wondering if anyone knows what this issue could be from my poor explanation please? She’s still nippy but just not the same 😞 
 

I put voice record on my phone as I was heading up on a flyover dual carriageway. This is changing into 5th (it’s hailing by the way) 

thanks in advance for any info. 
 

(hopefully this link works) 

 

https://formaonline.app/sharing/58f031a4

 

21 hours ago, MrsFaz said:

once I get to 5th and 6th gear and push that bit further, my revs shoot up (no extra power) until I take my foot off and reapply

If it's a manual transmission that could be a slipping clutch.

9 hours ago, mjt said:

If it's a manual transmission that could be a slipping clutch.

Yes manual. Would this only be in 5th and 6th though? 

Higher gear ratios put a greater load on the clutch. You said "she’s not pulling as good as she used to" and it may also be slipping in lower gears but not enough to be obvious.

54 minutes ago, mjt said:

it may also be slipping in lower gears but not enough to be obvious.

Probably will become obvious fairly quickly. Last car I had with the problem (a brand new Rover so some while back😀) went from slight slip in top to leaving me stranded in the middle of a busy junction with lots of revs but no motion in any gear within a couple of days.

Can't think of anything else offhand that would cause increased revs and no acceleration.

You could always do a quick check by applying the handbrake as firmly as possible and trying to pull away. 

 

 

in the old days clutch slip would just rev out until the driver controlled the issue (backed off the throttle)

but with some interesting ford behaviour and many drivers no longer being mechanically minded - it appears some drive like this till the car catches fire (how that happens is the magic ford ingredient) - with so many doing this, they introduced a recall to update the engine software to compare engine revs with road speed (for a given gear) and if higher than x, throw error message and likely limp mode to stop the abuse

part of this recall was for the tech to mechanically abuse the clutch to see if it would play up - if it did you got a free clutch too

trouble is what level of abuse and the human touch trying to achieve was variable - mostly they trashed the clutch just enough that they handed it back saying it was OK - which it kind of was for a while...

various driving styles and vehicle use can take one clutch trashed in just 20 k miles all the way to another car being perfectly OK at 250k miles....  the ford recall check often took 25% of the life out of whatever it had left....