Hi all

I bought a 55 plate Focus 2.0 Tdci. Everything is great apart from.....

A stutter. It happens when accelerating (occasionaly) but I can power out of it fine. Seems to happen more when I have been at high speed for a while e.g. after the motorway. Feels like a gust of wind has hit the car and decelerated the car. but when powering from say 5 -> 20 mph in 2nd gear and hold it at 20 in 2nd, the car stutters. It has only done the holding stuttering after a high speed run.

The car starts fine and when from cold is great, no problems.

There is no smoke or anything like that, fuel compsumption is about 45/mpg which is about right for the 2.0 I believe,

After the car as settled and stood for a while the issue is not there.


Any help would really be appreciated, I don't know my way under the bonnet so asking me to look at something isn't really what I can do , but common issues that can cause this I can relay onto the garage.

There hasnt been any lights on the dash, would getting a code reader help? I have ready that if no lights then no code.

Cheers for any help.

 

The shuddering could be dual mass flywheel, just an idea from me.. i'm not 100% though...

whats the milage?

 

that fuel consumption sounds crap mate.

my dads got a mk3 mondeo estate 2l tdci 130ps so should be same as yours and he gets 50-55mpg easily. good motorway run will see 60+ mpg!!!!!

sory i cant help as to the cause of the problem but i'd say theres definately a problem and its prob gonna be hard to diagnose and fix. all modern diesels are right pigs imho. fantastic when they work but pigs when they dont and VERY costly!

 

Its done 70k.... I've been onto other ford forums and they all are getting about that mpg.. Maybe its just the ford engine. If I'm careful I get about 55 on motorway but the inner town driving kills that.

Any other help.

On the flywheel. Would there be any other signs that would lead to it being that?

 

its not poor fuel consumption because its the ford engine. its the same engine as my dads and hes got a bigger heavier estate that easily get 60+mpg on a good motorway run.

the 2.0 tdci's can have injector issues from about your millage. depends on how often it gets filled up with fresh fuel, how often diesel injector cleaner gets shoved through and whether or not it gets driven round like a granny.

ford tech told me they need good booting every now and again!!!

 

yes fuel injecter blockage is prob the most common focus tdci engine fault i got mine on a 57 when car was 7 mounths old dune 12500 miles had it 3 weeks and had a blowen engine because of blocked injecters under fueled the ehgine witch melted the pistons so ford replaced engine under warrenty or id be looking at around 5, 500 for new engine plus ford labour id get them looked at and flushed out soon as m8 or it could be costly

 

Hi
Did you find out the fault in the end as my Cmax is behaving in exactly the same way!
Thanks

 

Could possibly a dirty air filter? Something like that, one of my old Astras had a similar problem. Cleaning it seemed to sort out the problem.