Focus Trouble

[beanebabe]

I have an 03 reg 1.6 TDi Focus. For the 2nd time in 6 months it is suffering from loss of power. You can pull away in 1st and then the thing turns into a milkfloat! You can floor the accelerator and it only picks-up speed really slowly. It's OK around town but get on the motorway and it's embarassing! It'll do 70 down a hill with a prevailing wind. The last time it went in the garage the 'throttle pedal sensor' was changed. Has anyone else had similar problems!

[Toureman]

Your car has probably gone into "safe Mode" this is to stop you damaging some part of the engine as something is not working properly, go to a decent garage that doesn't just swap expensive parts trying to solve the problem.

[Big Bri]

sounds like the air flow meter common fault on most cars

[McNoodle]

O2 sensor aka Lambda switch?

[lukeyd2004]

i had similar probelems with my car whcih i chose to ignore. big mistake as a few weeks later the clutch went. Does it feel like the clutch slipping at all??

[MK66]

Hi - the same thing happened to me with my Escort. It was the catalytic convertor. Had a new one and all was ok!