The Focus lives and breaths (maybe not properly)
Jules, thanks for your replies, have had a look at ebay and contacted a number of sellers who all say their plates don’t fit the 1.8 tdci which is odd because that’s what they advertise! Anyhow decided to make one myself armed with scissors and cardboard, trimmed it to fit between the bolts and cut a 1.5mm thick alloy plate the same size.
Now it should be said after trying to take the EGR off yesterday and giving up the car was running rougher than ever this morning. The turbo didn’t spool up until the revs got up beyond the point it normally comes in and the car felt like it was missing at 70 mph and pretty much through the rev range. It might not have helped yesterday when I checked the slide on the side of the EGV was moving and not seized. I probably took it past the normal operating movement making things worse.
After yesterday I was ready to admit defeat and put it back in the fuel injection specialist. After discussing the problems with a nice technician called Matt he said the first thing they would do was blank the EGR off so I thought I would give it a go.
Well !!!!!!!! After trying the car up the road all the hesitation seems to have gone, yah. It always seems worse from cold in the morning so I guess I will find out tomorrow but it seems a hell of a lot better, cher- ting cash saved.
The car has cost me a fortune this year with dual mass clutch and flywheel, recon injectors then water pump went
Recon injector bill was diagnostic check £93 remove and refit £155 overhaul and recon seals and nozzles £512 plus the dreaded vat £154 making £912
The reason for the injector overhaul was poor starting and lumpy running first thing in morning. I read elsewhere on this forum about a guy that was having the same problem. Car starts but feels like it was running on 3 cylinders, drive to end of my drive 20/30 metres and car ran fine all day long. Only really became a problem last winter as it was spanking the battery with the cold temperatures. Turned out all 4 injectors were leaking into the bores some worse than others. New injectors were only £20 each more but I thought the cars done 120,000 so recon seemed to be the way to go.
Still the site was a great help in diagnosing the problem so I will keep reading.
Last edited by dervburner; 25-10-2011 at 04:21 PM.