ford focus 1.6 tdci aleX Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 :( i have owned my 2006 ford focus estate 1.6 tdci for 5 months(4 of which in the front garden on axle stands)i was told to change the oil regularily due to carbon in the oil causing sludge and starving the turbo...so i changed the oil,fuel filter and air filter.. drove the car for 300 miles over the month.lovelly car i thaught.. til one day,i was driving home from work when i noticed a plinkey noise from the engine,sudden power loss.with billowing white smoke from the exhaust..the engine was running on its own(with the key out of the ignition)5000 rpm..so i put it in gear and dumped the clutch to stall it.. towed the heap back to home...and the garden is its new home.. i removed the turbo..oil riddled inter cooler filled with oily/diesel the sump had twice the amount of fluid innit.. so i removed the injectors,and found two injectors had their needles missing, i did a compression test,which was not conclusive but generally lower than they should be.. i removed the head to find it was totally carboned up,and glow plugs seized up and 2 broke off. so i bought a reconed head,injectors,and glow plugs,rebuilt...and noticed a buzzing from the fuel pump metering solenoid(3.48 volts)so i have by-passed to the battery)the solenoid now clicks ok the glow plug 60 amp fuse under the bonnet has blown,repaired it fuel doesnt seem tobe getting through to the injectors,even after priming the fuel filter, i have got fuel flow at the green pipe on top of the engine(i guess its the return feed to the tank) i am running out of ideas....anyones help...please aleX in bristol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MONDEO TXS 2.2 Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 White smoke in diesel exhaust indicates the presence of water and / or unburnt diesel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ford focus 1.6 tdci aleX Posted March 22, 2015 Author Share Posted March 22, 2015 thanX...AleX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomsFocus Posted March 22, 2015 Share Posted March 22, 2015 Nah the white smoke in this case is partly burnt oil from the turbo blowing (been there myself lol). Fuel not getting to the injectors sounds like an electrical issue, immobiliser or a bad battery not turning the engine fast enough. Do you have any sort of diagnotstic tools? FORScan or even a generic reader? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morphvale Posted April 9, 2015 Share Posted April 9, 2015 :( i have owned my 2006 ford focus estate 1.6 tdci for 5 months(4 of which in the front garden on axle stands)i was told to change the oil regularily due to carbon in the oil causing sludge and starving the turbo...so i changed the oil,fuel filter and air filter.. drove the car for 300 miles over the month.lovelly car i thaught.. til one day,i was driving home from work when i noticed a plinkey noise from the engine,sudden power loss.with billowing white smoke from the exhaust..the engine was running on its own(with the key out of the ignition)5000 rpm..so i put it in gear and dumped the clutch to stall it.. towed the heap back to home...and the garden is its new home.. i removed the turbo..oil riddled inter cooler filled with oily/diesel the sump had twice the amount of fluid innit.. so i removed the injectors,and found two injectors had their needles missing, i did a compression test,which was not conclusive but generally lower than they should be.. i removed the head to find it was totally carboned up,and glow plugs seized up and 2 broke off. so i bought a reconed head,injectors,and glow plugs,rebuilt...and noticed a buzzing from the fuel pump metering solenoid(3.48 volts)so i have by-passed to the battery)the solenoid now clicks ok the glow plug 60 amp fuse under the bonnet has blown,repaired it fuel doesnt seem tobe getting through to the injectors,even after priming the fuel filter, i have got fuel flow at the green pipe on top of the engine(i guess its the return feed to the tank) i am running out of ideas....anyones help...please aleX in bristol You mention you got new injectors, did you program those? You can use ForScan for that, with a cheap ELM327 cable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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