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[Steve Brookman]

Evening all,

Bought a 55 plate 1.6 100BHP Focus estate yesterday to replace the wifes Fiesta. 39000 miles. Drove like a dream on the test drive and on the 30 mile trip home yesterday. Wife told me when I got home toady that it felt like it was missing whilst driving. I took it out and indeed it is and the engine management light is on. Luckily enough I bought it via my brother in law who is a salesman for ford and he will have them plug it in on saturday.

I'm suspecting a coil pack-but any other guidance would be graetly appreciated.


To say I'm peeved is an understatement.


Regards

Steve

[BazaJT]

Fix Or Repair Daily!!

[henryd]

If it's a dealer valeted car,it could be water ingress to plugwells,not uncommon

[TheBoy]

On our Zetec 1.6, banging the rev limiter would cause it to run rough until you switched it off and on.  As you can imagine, the first time this happened, I thought I'd shagged it (with less than 1000 miles on it).  2 seperate dealers just said not to rev it that hard. Idiots.

[joshwyatt]

In my experience the 1.6 100bhp was actually quite a good combo. We had a 1998 'S' Ghia from 45k to 75k and a 2005 '05' from 59k to 95k without any problems. Recently I purchased for a client a 2008 '58' Focus Convertible with the 1.6, and that again was perfect.
Hopefully, it'll be something nice and simple 

[TheBoy]

In my experience the 1.6 100bhp was actually quite a good combo.

Probably you are right. A gutless, horrible engine paired with an unpredictable chassis. A good match.

[Webby the Bear]

In my experience the 1.6 100bhp was actually quite a good combo.

Probably you are right. A gutless, horrible engine paired with an unpredictable chassis. A good match.

 

the wife's 54 plate 1.8 is nice. soooo easy to work on too

[TheBoy]

In my experience the 1.6 100bhp was actually quite a good combo.

Probably you are right. A gutless, horrible engine paired with an unpredictable chassis. A good match.

 

the wife's 54 plate 1.8 is nice. soooo easy to work on too

No, its not (nice). How Ford managed to get so little power out of that cc, and deliver that power so badly, is a work of art. On the upside, it won't go fast enough to show up how badly the chassis handles.

[Webby the Bear]

well i like it 

[omegod]

Did my brothers 1.6 last year, cylinder 4 mis fire due to a shagged coil pack. Pattern one was £38 and has been fine up to now

[Steve Brookman]

Thanks will have a look at the plug wells tomorrow.
Went very well yesterday on the way home though not quite as fast as my brothers chipped Focus ST running around 280bhp.

Steve

[joshwyatt]

In my experience the 1.6 100bhp was actually quite a good combo.

Probably you are right. A gutless, horrible engine paired with an unpredictable chassis. A good match.

  but if you accept, it's a small / mid size family car I think it's ok. It doesn't set the world on fire, and it can be twitchy at the front if you're pressing on...but on the whole, it's ok.
Better than VAG I think. Golf, Touran TDI's drive me crazy. With medium acceleration the front squirms all over the place.
I've often wondered what a Focus ST drives like? It looks questionable (with the chav stuff), but I wonder what the excellent Volvo engine does for it.

[TheBoy]

In my experience the 1.6 100bhp was actually quite a good combo.

Probably you are right. A gutless, horrible engine paired with an unpredictable chassis. A good match.

  but if you accept, it's a small / mid size family car I think it's ok. It doesn't set the world on fire, and it can be twitchy at the front if you're pressing on...but on the whole, it's ok.
Better than VAG I think. Golf, Touran TDI's drive me crazy. With medium acceleration the front squirms all over the place.
I've often wondered what a Focus ST drives like? It looks questionable (with the chav stuff), but I wonder what the excellent Volvo engine does for it.

But things like the Astra-H are a million times better, except the interior trim falling off. Quicker, handles better.

Only driven an early ST, not sure if it was standard or tweaked. Horrid car. Torque steer, catastrophic understeer, and inadequate (and unpredictable) brakes. As long as you weren't given it full beans, it was more predictable in the corners than the lesser models.

[Steve Brookman]

Thanks Josh I found it quite fast enough.
My brothers ST 225 is a cracking car to drive-even before he had it chipped. What makes a 225 special is the massive torque and the sound of the 5 pot engine. Only downside is the 20mpg.

Regards

Steve

[TheBoy]

is the massive torque

Can't argue with that. It delivers it nicely as well.