2006 Ford Fiesta 1.4 Tdci Power Loss And Cuts Out Randomly

Hi all,

I've had my 2006 Ford Fiesta 1.4 TDCi for two weeks now and it is having a strange loss of power followed by a cut out issue.

The mileage is 85,000.

So I was driving fine for a few days on motorways and normal roads but then one day after an hour of motorway driving, I exited off to a round about, then when I accelerated in gear 1, I got hardly any power (thought I was in gear 3 but wasn't), I tried going up a hill and it slow decelerated (power loss was for about 30 seconds) and then the engine cut out, then I tried starting it up and it cuts out immediately, after about 5-10 minutes and a number of start up attempts it ran like nothing was wrong.

It drove perfect for another week and then it happened again, this time I was driving on a dual carriage way and it lost power for 30 seconds again and cut out, after half an hour of trying to start it up with no luck, then I tried starting it in gear one, the car moved forwards of course and cuts out, I tried 5 times so the car had moved enough to a position facing uphill and it started again and it ran perfect.

I'm not a mechanic but I decided to see if it could be the engine not getting enough fuel because of the fuel pump, injectors, etc so I made the car work really hard (4000 revs on the motorway for 15-20 minutes) and it had no problems.

There are no warning lights when this happens and also worth mentioning the fuel gauge has an issue, it has a full fuel tank at the moment but the gauge changes its mind to what ever it wants every couple of seconds from 200 miles to empty to 10 miles, etc.

I went to Halfords and they advised me to clean the EGR valve which I haven't done yet but I'm not sure if it could be this.

Anyone heard of similar issues or have any ideas would be really appreciated!

Hope its enough information.

Thanks,

Shivan