What’s wrong with my car?

[elchorro89]

Car : Ford Fiesta Ztec Climate 1.242, 2005 reg.

 

So this is the only issue so far, when discovered I turned the car home and parked it.

 

- struggles to pick up speed, sluggish.

 

(Cannot exceed 30mph in 3/4gear, or total max 38mph in 5th gear.)

 

- engine light flashes on and off.

 

My thoughts from reading Dr. Google are:

 

Spark plugs?

 

The box thing the plugs connect into?

 

If anyone can help I’d be really grateful, as my whole life unfortunately depends on this car.

 

 

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[dezwez]

You need to get the codes read there are code readers on feabay could be the catalytic converter has broken up

and the car is bogging down

[elchorro89]

Thanks for commenting, do you know if the AA carry code readers?


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[dezwez]

Yes they do but they are cheap enough on the bay

[elchorro89]

On my fairly uneducated exhaust inspection. I’ve noticed the back box has this ... could that cause this issue?


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[dezwez]

9 minutes ago, elchorro89 said:

On my fairly uneducated exhaust inspection. I’ve noticed the back box has this ... could that cause this issue?


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normally if its the cat but you will be renewing that part as its naff

[E TEA 66]

Well looking at the back box i'd say theirs a good chance the baffles inside have collapsed causing a partial blockage preventing the engine from releasing the exhaust gases properly but shouldn't affect it enough to cause a limp home mode scenario unless like Dezwez says the issue is down to a partial blockage on the cat as that usually affects the signal from the o2 sensors to the ecu ..