KA+ rough running?

[carmanmemoranda]

That's what I have said, I tried replacing everything with known good ones and no effect.
I'm booking it into Ford tomorrow.

Ah well, that's the savings gone

Known good ones doesnt always work on electrical components.
A brand new coil pack plugs and leads would be cheap enough to try first.
But keep us informed.

 

[mattylad]

How so?
I am familiar with electrical components.
They are working without problems so therefor should work without problems when transposed to another car.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

How so?
I am familiar with electrical components.
They are working without problems so therefor should work without problems when transposed to another car.

Are they exactly identical parts ? Or look similar enough ?

 

[mattylad]

Are they exactly identical parts ? Or look similar enough ?

Exactly the same.

 

[mattylad]

It's going into an independent garage tomorrow - assuming I can get it to limp there.

 

[mattylad]

And limp it certainly did, at tops I got it to 30mph on a downhill with the wind behind me.
Orange engine light flashing away in morse "PULL OVER YA DAFT BUGGER!!"

Petrol gauge went down an awful lot over the 6 mile journey.

2 mechanics worked on it for 2 hours, got about 17 faults off the ECU.
Traced it to a faulty wire, repaired that and back to normal.
it's fixed yay!

A heck of a weight off my mind, I was expecting a bill for several hundreds to get it going again but instead it was only £108.

 

[Mottie]

And limp it certainly did, at tops I got it to 30mph on a downhill with the wind behind me.
Orange engine light flashing away in morse "PULL OVER YA DAFT BUGGER!!"

Petrol gauge went down an awful lot over the 6 mile journey.

2 mechanics worked on it for 2 hours, got about 17 faults off the ECU.
Traced it to a faulty wire, repaired that and back to normal.
it's fixed yay!

A heck of a weight off my mind, I was expecting a bill for several hundreds to get it going again but instead it was only £108.

A diag, two mechanics working for two hours and a repair for £108. Gotta be the bargain of the year. You should change your name to Luckylad!

 

[mattylad]

We do get a discount being the building the other side of the yard and because we all take our cars there.
MOT is cheaper too

 

[carmanmemoranda]

And limp it certainly did, at tops I got it to 30mph on a downhill with the wind behind me.
Orange engine light flashing away in morse "PULL OVER YA DAFT BUGGER!!"

Petrol gauge went down an awful lot over the 6 mile journey.

2 mechanics worked on it for 2 hours, got about 17 faults off the ECU.
Traced it to a faulty wire, repaired that and back to normal.
it's fixed yay!

A heck of a weight off my mind, I was expecting a bill for several hundreds to get it going again but instead it was only £108.

Good news.

Doesnt make any sense with the fault codes you had but thats why everybody says clear the codes and see what returns

 

[Belle427]

I'm wondering has it dragged some crap through and blocked the fuel filter.
Seems strange it happened after low fuel.

 

[mattylad]

That's what I thought but no as above it was a faulty wire...
How that wire became faulty I do not know, apart from the local Ford garage have recently replaced the A/C radiator wotsit at the front.