Hi

I hope I am posting this in the correct area of the forum, I need to know if anyone has come across the problem I am currently having with my car as 2 mechanics are struggling to find what is wrong and I do not want to go to Ford direct unless I have no choice as not able to afford 1k+ to fix the car.

I was driving up a slight gradient when the suddenly lost all power, the ! light came on so I pulled over as soon as I could, stopped the car checked everything, nothing was leaking or obviously broken or wrong, started the car again, no lights cam on this time. I got to work all be it slowly as the turbo just seemed to not kick in and then took it to the garage that day.

The garage hooked the car up to a sensor machine and no faults were found, he checked the dpf additive and topped it up as thought it might be a blocked filter. This made no difference. He did find some small amount of play in the turbo but that was all.

The following day I bought some dfp fuel cleaner and started to drive to get the cleaner to work, the car was driving no different still loss of power and then the oil light came on, I pulled over in to the garage which was 1 minute away, turned the engine off, then the car wouldn't start. Rac came and told me the battery needed replacing so towed me home.

We have fitted a new battery and no oil light comes on but still have the same problem with loss of power.

It has now gone into a second garage and the mechanic can not find what is causing the issue, he has driven it and checked it over, he is taking to get checked again on a sensor machine to see if anything now comes up but is confused as no lights are showing on the car. If this brings up nothing they think I need to go to fords and said for all he knows it could cost upwards of 1k to fix as he cant see what is wrong.

It wont go above 30 mph and wont go above 2/3000 revs, it is light someone has turned a switch of and we dont know where it is to turn it back on.

Sorry for the long post, I dont think I have missed any steps has anyone else had this problem with this model of car.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Pat

well for start its highly unlikely it will cost 1k to fix even more so if they dont know whats wrong if it wont rev or go beyond 30mph then it is in limp mode and only diagnostics will find out why it could be a boost pipe has burst etc but they should have seen this if im honest i wouldnt have much faith in this garage its in limp mode and there will be a reason why perhaps its better to bite the bullet and let ford have a look

If its gone into limp mode , then it should trigger a dtc of some description, a number of issues , boost leak, dpf blocked, has fuel adittive tank been reset after filling?

thats true but the fact it wont go above 30 andf the revs are limited means it is in limp mode reducing power to the engine question is why and why are there no lights or codes