hey guys im new here and have a pretty serious problem!

Here it goes.

I booked a ticket to get the ferry to ireland tuesday morning on the 02.40 sailing. i have a 2005 ford focus 1.8 tdci so i didnt think that journey would be any problem to a car like that, (i was wrong) i drove the car on the motorway at about 75 mph on cruise controll for about 3 hours, no signs of any problems, temp needle in the correct place, plenty of diesel and so-on. the car just cruised like i would expect it to..

anyway about 100 miles from the ferry i needed a toilet break so i slowed down to pull in and suddenly the car cut out and all breaks and steering got very very heavy.. but i managed to pull in to a lay by. it would not start for about 10 minutes but it eventually did.. it proceeded to do this twice more when i arrived in ireland.. i did get a message on the dash saying engine systems fault but when the engine does eventually restart that message dissapears.. leading up to this fault occuring i noticed that on the odd occasion when in any gear and between 1300-2000 revs whilst slowly accelerating the car will hit a flat spot where it looses power for a split second and then regains acceleration. the only way i can explain it is it feels like someone has tried to pull the car backwards and let go.. both these problems happen when the engine is hot or cold.. please help guys or im stuck in ireland and garages here charge an arm and a leg..

 

Could be anything really. Pay the 20 quid or whatever it costs to have the fault codes read out and go from there. If you're lucky it's just some faulty sensor.

 

give me a call on 07815879956 if its in northern ireland if southern in around dublin sorry

eugene

 

they want Ł117 plus vat to do those checks, im with the aa so next time it breaks down i will call them and they can plug it in, but like i said the warning light dissapears after a while, gonna take off the fuel filter to check it out.

 

u could buy a fault code reader that plugs into the OBD port quite cheap. Not sure if you will be able to buy one where you are but in london there is a few stockists. Costs around 40quid. Might be worth a search on the net local to where you are for one. Or take it to a local garage im sure they would have a reader and not charge that much for diagnostics.

 

i just took the fuel filter out and its a paper one. what i noticed is that the small rubber ring on the filter head is out of shape!! could this be the problem?? its not the big ring that seals the whole unit but the little one inside.

 

bump

 

That's how the problem I have in the thread titled ' Engine cutting out and restartiong problem' started

Sounds like the exact same behaviour I was experiencing right at the beginning .... and I still don't know what it is!

 

That sounds similar to my citroen c5 hdi which was a fuel pressure regulator hope this helps.