sdavies1505 Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 My Fiesta 1.4 Tdci 04 started playing up yesterday. I first noticed that in 1st and 2nd gears it seemed to loose a bit of power and was a bit jerky in acceleration but I could still get up to 70/80 mph and 3rd, 4th and 5th were fine. I have tried to reverse out of my drive (which is on a slope) and I cannot get out of the drive! Every time I try the car cuts out at around 1500 revs unless I depress the clutch. I had a mechanic out to it today and he managed (with a lot of effort to get it off the drive), I thought it may be a clutch issue but he said he wasn't sure it was, he also said he thinks its electrical and then said it seems like a fuel problem and needed to recover it to fault find, which I cannot really afford and I'm not convinced about his honesty!Most of the time it starts fine, I have had a few occasions where I've gone to start it and it turns once and cuts out but always starts the next time I try which is immediately after.Any ideas would be much appreciated as I can't afford to get someone in to fault find!Thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGersFord Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Id try set of glow plugs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies1505 Posted July 16, 2013 Author Share Posted July 16, 2013 I'm wondering if the injectors would cause similar issues because it also has quite a noisy ticking which is there all the time but gets louder when I accelerate and the revs get up to over 3000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gombal Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 When was the last time the fuelfilter was changed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdavies1505 Posted July 16, 2013 Author Share Posted July 16, 2013 September last year, had a full service then, you reckon that's worth a shot first? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gombal Posted July 16, 2013 Share Posted July 16, 2013 Probably not but it was the first thing that came to mind. But i used to drive a oldtimer (Mercedes Benz 250D 1986) and there's no electronics in that. First thing i think of as to electronics is your MAF sensor. After a bit of Googling i found this ( http://easyautodiagnostics.com/ford_maf/maf_sensor_ford_1.php and this http://easyautodiagnostics.com/ford_maf_escort/maf_test_tracer_1.php ), if you have a multimeter you can easily scheck it yourself. It's for different engines but a MAF sensor is a MAF sensor. And a link to clean your MAF sensor, worth trying first but just read it and maybe it will be the fix for you, i hope. Also the symptoms are more or less the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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