Pic of my Country Estate:

Oh, you mean? Sorry. My bad!

Nah, Nina isn’t doing it for me. SJ is pretty flexible though.

I’ll take your Diesel Crankshaft and cut it in 2 like a twig!

Got to be BBC budgets or not wanting to confuse the kids!

Although when you spend 3-4 hours a day watching Mr Tumble, it’s not hard to find her attractive. 😉

Think so, she’s certainly improved with age.

Thanks, Scraprider. Good Karma coming your way! 😉

Dropped it off tonight at the main dealer – full diagnostic tomorrow. Took along some of the suggestions I’d found from here and the ford forums as it is in fact recognised as a common fault, but when I handed the service manager the bit of paper he threw a strop and said he wouldn’t look at it.

**** tosser!

Why is it I have no faith in these folk?

From checking HonestJohn, they both seem to have their problems, but this issue is particular to Diesels.

Thanks for the advice folks. Have it booked into a Ford garage tomorrow morning.

Frightening how many Ford Diesels have this problem, there were literally hundreds of posts online about it.

So far the most likely suggestions from various forums seems to be:

Crankshaft/Camshaft sensor problem:
Failed injector or loosing it’s calibration and needs re-coded
Pressure sensor on fuel pump
Fuel filter and fuel gauge sender unit
EGR valve needs replacing
Fuel pump disintegrating or being blocked which in turn could be affecting the injectors
Fuel pipes being a bit knackered having holes in it and drew air into it

Other points raised in some posts were:

In 2003 Ford issued a service bulletin about TDCI mondeos cutting out due to failure of the block connector for the fuel pressure sensor. A kit containing the connector was made available. This seems more likely to me to be the cause so Im going to check that out when I get a chance.

The injector pump, injectors and all the pipe work etc might have to be replaced as it is a well known problem with the ford/jaguar pumps that due to the new non sulpher diesel not lubricating the pump as well as it should, the pump starts to break up and contaminate the hole system.

So the garage needs to do a pressure check, followed by an individual injector leak-off rate test. If the injectors are OK; they’ll need to think about air getting into the fuel line or a failing pump.

We have now had a turbo seal leak repaired and a new cam sensor fitted, will wait and see if it is fixed.

The ECU has picked up a fault on a sensor and will limit power if its going to cause harm to engine, so if ran in limp mode for to long it will shut car down.

I’m having the same problem and again I have spent over £300 on a fault that is still there. I have had the EGR valve changed, the fuel sender changed, the injectors re-coded twice and the problem is still there

One of the guys on the Mondeo forum said:

“The ecu has picked up a fault on a sensor and will limit power if its going to cause harm to engine, so if ran in limp mode for to long it will shut car down.

As its diesel wont have lambda sensor.

If misfueled the car would be hardly drivable for couple of minutes let alone hour, same if it was a blocked filter.

Worth getting put on machine to check for fault codes”

Taff, would really appreciate that! I’ll be checking here throughout!

Thanks to the rest of you!!

Marcus, just saw your post. Anything else you can offer so that I’m able to communicate better with the garage.

Guys, thanks for your help, really. Appreciate it!

Not that car-minded, so some of the suggestions are a wee bit over my head, but I can say (HORA) that I haven’t misfueled, and no excessive smoke from exhaust.

Didn’t even know my car would have a limp home mode.

Worth taking to a main ford dealer for a full diagnostic check? Also wary that these things don’t really show much up.

Hopefully some others might read this and offer some more pointers…

Sorry, thought I posted this in classifieds. Doh!!

I thought the 2008 Trance head angle of 69.5 degree was still pretty steep?

BTW, how light does an average 08 Trance build weigh?

What’s the big deal about the 08 Trance frame in particular compared to the 07 or 09?

Just asking as I don’t know.

Househusband, off of here, has recently retrained as a teacher.

Threads like this are the reason I love STW.

As you were.

GeeTee1972, your IWC Portuguese Chrono-Automatic (in stainless steel with blue crocodile leather strap, Reference IW371417) – if I’m not mistaken 😉 wins hands down.

Although a retail of £4250 is a bit out of my price range.

If money was no object, it’d have to be this for me:

Keep them coming, nice thread!

Wasn’t sure that the Larsen on front would offer enough grip on the downs, that’s why I was thinking about the Crossmark…?

Yep, been mostly down for the past 24hrs. The helpline says they are aware of the problem. Helpfully they won’t give a time for fixing it!

Bet they won’t be in a hurry to refund you for lost time though, eh?!

Was going to in the next day or two – have our dates all picked out. You care to elaborate?