I’ve got a 53 plate Mondeo TDCI and recently suffered the Dual mass Flywheel problem at 104K miles. First sign was the starter motor whining and not starting properly. A garage close to my work just cleaned out the motor as it was a Friday but explained the real cause was but said should be OK for a few weeks until the motor got stuffed again but there was no risk of a catastrophic failure and the vehicle was safe to drive. Anyway, having taken in the blow of a quote for £1100 to fit a solid flywheel with clutch, new motor, slave I was fairly relaxed to get better quote which I did for £870 so booked it in at another garage a friend recommended. Then (despite what the first garage said) the car suddenly started dying on me completely (but would restart OK and run for a while) – fortunately I wasn’t far from the garage I’d arranged to do the work so took it there and waited a few days for them to do the job.
Now – having done the full job (they put in a solid mass flywheel conversion) and fitted a new Crankshaft sensor - when they take it for a test run it cuts out without warning, apparently it seems when not under load, so just cruising it will completely die “as if you’ve turned the engine off”. The nightmare is that no codes show up on their diagnostics!!! Nooooo!!!! So they are baffled – have checked all wiring and spoke to Ford who also don’t understand it and say they’ve done all the right things.
I’ve read various horrific threads of people with similar problems of Mondeo TDCI’s suddenly cutting out and the problems of finding the cause at huge expense. Am I just plain unlucky and a quite separate fault has occurred or is it in some way related to the flywheel issue? Frankly I’m gutted that I’ve spent the best part of a grand and still have an unusable vehicle and the prospect of being forced to hand it over to a Ford dealer to randomly replace parts at huge expense. Maybe I should just cut my losses and give up – but then it won’t even rate as a trade in possibility and I need something for work (a round trip of 90 miles)? Any suggestions?
Now – having done the full job (they put in a solid mass flywheel conversion) and fitted a new Crankshaft sensor - when they take it for a test run it cuts out without warning, apparently it seems when not under load, so just cruising it will completely die “as if you’ve turned the engine off”. The nightmare is that no codes show up on their diagnostics!!! Nooooo!!!! So they are baffled – have checked all wiring and spoke to Ford who also don’t understand it and say they’ve done all the right things.
I’ve read various horrific threads of people with similar problems of Mondeo TDCI’s suddenly cutting out and the problems of finding the cause at huge expense. Am I just plain unlucky and a quite separate fault has occurred or is it in some way related to the flywheel issue? Frankly I’m gutted that I’ve spent the best part of a grand and still have an unusable vehicle and the prospect of being forced to hand it over to a Ford dealer to randomly replace parts at huge expense. Maybe I should just cut my losses and give up – but then it won’t even rate as a trade in possibility and I need something for work (a round trip of 90 miles)? Any suggestions?
