My mate drives a 2002 1.6 and I thought I'd just ask about a problem he's having, sometimes when he's accelerating throught the gears it seems to hit a bit of hesitation and the engine check light will flash a few times then it will continue as normal....any idea's???

 

Coil pack is dying rapidly. Get it sorted sooner rather than later. A new one from Ford is about Ł70

While you're changing that, check the spark plug gaps as well. They should be 1mm but it's not uncommon for 'pre-gapped plugs' to be miles out.......it used to be 1.3mm a few but this caused a lot of coil pack failures so they changed to 1mm gaps.

 

gaps should be 0.7mm for the 1.6se

 

Yep, coil pack is packing in, just had the wifes 1.4 Focus coilpack replaced a few weeks ago.