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Engine Trouble on Focus

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  • 05-09-2008 11:34am
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    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,998 ✭✭✭


    Hi,
    A couple of times in my focus the engine has cut out while driving. It usually happens when I leave it in neutral when changing gear, for a split second before getting into gear.

    Ok, the gear changing could be better, but we're talking margins of split seconds here and I think there could be an underlying problem.

    Anything I should check? Spark plugs etc?
    Kind Regards


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    ART6
    Registered Users Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭ART6


    Could be a number of things. Plugs and/or plug leads is a possible, as is a faulty Lambda. In the latter case the symptoms are usually high emissions, hesitation noticeable when slowing down using engine braking, and quietly dying when coming to a stop with the clutch depressed. The best and cheapest way to find out is to take the car to one of the quick fit servicing places (Pitstop etc) who can connect up their diagnostic machine to it and interrogate the engine management system. That will tell you what the problem is.


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    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Is it a 1.4 ?


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    Plug
    Registered Users Posts: 9,248 ✭✭✭Plug


    The ignition coil may need replacing, alot of them go.


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    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,998 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    ART6 wrote: »
    Could be a number of things. Plugs and/or plug leads is a possible, as is a faulty Lambda. In the latter case the symptoms are usually high emissions, hesitation noticeable when slowing down using engine braking, and quietly dying when coming to a stop with the clutch depressed. The best and cheapest way to find out is to take the car to one of the quick fit servicing places (Pitstop etc) who can connect up their diagnostic machine to it and interrogate the engine management system. That will tell you what the problem is.

    Thanks a million.


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    Tim Robbins
    Registered Users Posts: 8,998 ✭✭✭Tim Robbins


    hellboy99 wrote: »
    Is it a 1.4 ?

    Yeah! 2000 is the year


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    copacetic
    Subscribers Posts: 16,587 ✭✭✭✭copacetic


    i had a coil got in a 99 focus a few years back, only issue with it in 7 years. didn't have this affect though, doubt it is the coil. Unless it has been running rough and lower power for a while already.


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    bloke
    Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭bloke


    I had similar problems on a 1.6 focus recently. Replacing plugs and leads did the trick - the plug electrodes were badly eroded when I took them out, probably hadn't been changed for a very long time!


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    biggus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 510 ✭✭✭biggus


    Great user name "bloke"


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    hellboy99
    Registered Users Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭hellboy99


    Tim Robbins wrote: »
    Yeah! 2000 is the year

    It could be a faulty fuel pump, it's a problem with 1.4's.


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