ChrisM41 Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Hi guys, Im new here so bear with me a little. Just got a 2005 Focus 1.6, its a good car except for hesitation and stutter. Its mainly under partial load and worse when cold. The idle is mostly stable though and it usually revs pretty well up to the red line, I see no air leaks and the fuel trim is about -7%. Ive done some searching but feel I need to ask directly now. Ive done the usual, replaced the coil and leads, the plugs are new. Checked for air leaks, the MAF seems to be giving reasonable readings to. The O2 sensors also seem ok, the post cat reading is a fairly stable 0.73 with the pre cat reading fluctuating between 0.1 and 0.73. There were codes P0172 P0175 showing, but I cleared these and reset the ECU when I changed the battery. The car is still in learning mode so im not sure if they will come back or are just older codes. Im going to clean the throttle body tomorrow and was thinking of having the injectors cleaned and serviced, but not sure if that will help much since its a little intermittent. Any ideas? Could it be the throttle body or TPS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM41 Posted March 15, 2016 Author Share Posted March 15, 2016 Cleaned the throttle body and its not really helped. The long term fuel trim seems to be creeping down (more negative). The car doesn't seem to lack power and using Forscan i can see that no parameter I monitor is unstable or otherwise odd. Maybe a PCM update would help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM41 Posted April 7, 2016 Author Share Posted April 7, 2016 Well I cleaned the injectors myself (they were rather black) and that helped a bit, bringing the trims about 5% higher. Took the car back and the garage actually had IDS, so they hooked it up and said they cleared the adaptations fully (which they said no other software can do). True or not its brought the trims right back to near 0 and the car is running much better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeebowhite Posted April 8, 2016 Share Posted April 8, 2016 good result! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisM41 Posted April 9, 2016 Author Share Posted April 9, 2016 I recommend anyone take out their injectors and give them a quick clean with isopropanol. Its pretty easy. Mine were black (most likely from crankcase recirculation vapours), and brown at the tip from fuel varnish. They went back in shiny silver. Just removing the black gunk must have helped air flow in the head. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeebowhite Posted April 9, 2016 Share Posted April 9, 2016 Sometimes removing injectors looks like a right mare... On my car for example. Sent from my GT-I9195 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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