On 2/13/2014 at 2:25 AM, jamesm182 said: I haven't owned one personally but as far as I know the TDCI was regarded as the best diesel engine among the MK1 Focus diesel options. They do 90ps endura old school engine, a 100ps TDCI and a 115ps TDCI so the 115 is the most powerful too and is quite nice and torquey :) 04-05-09 20:12. Ford Focus 1.8 Tdci Cutting Out. I have a F/Focus 1.8TDCi 2003 that's just done 162k miles. Never had a problem with this car until last Friday AM when it cut out on my @ a major roundabout in Leicester. It took at least 5 min's before I could restart the car and got to work OK. pin2 alternator load request. pin3 reference voltage. pin3 should match battery voltage and is fed from a fuse in the engine fuse box a high resistance on the fuse causes a voltage drop and smart charge drops out. to test pin 1 the waveform should remain constant if it mirrors pin 2 then the alt or smart charge is faulty. Ford Model: Focus sport TDCi. UK/Ireland Location: Down. Posted December 25, 2012. For the past while my fan belt has been squealing on my 1.8 tdci in the mornings for a while and then disappears. But the last week it will continue to do it for a good while longer. I had the belt off and it looks pretty good. All the pulleys spin freely and the Hi guys, I just recently found out that the radiator cooling fan on my 1.8 tdci doesnt work. The radiator is apparently big enoguh that the car is perfectly able to cool itself during all seasons. The main problem is the AC gets hot when stationary since there is not enoguh airflow to cool the radiator and you can hear the AC compressor clutch February 11, 2014 - I've been offered a mate's '08 focus, with the 1.8 tdci zetec engine. It's only done 30,000 miles and looks like a bargain (£3.5k). Does anyone have any. eZT6n. Ford Model: Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi Sport Mk2. Ford Year: 2006. UK/Ireland Location: Lincolnshire. Posted January 5, 2017. 2006 1.8TDCi with 62000 do I replace them at half way through recommended mileage because the car is 10 years old, dont want to spend any money unless I have to its just a cheap run around, what figure am i looking at £250. Quote. After the incident, I have tried the following steps: 1. to reprogram the car key by inserting the key into the ignition and turning it on four times until there is a beep (it did, and I pressed the unlock button with a following beep), 2. inserting the key to the driver's door, turning it and leaving it for 1 minute before unlocking the door I am looking for advice and experience from other drivers of a focus with the 1.8 TDCI engine. I got my focus in January of this year after a nightmare with an Audi which I thought would be able to survive the high mileage and I couldn't of been anymore wrong. I switched back to Ford as my Fiesta lasted 18 months and about 50K and only need The Seimens injectors in the Mk2 Focus do not have calibration codes to set into the pcm, as Russ says. But there is an advice that if all 4 are changed (or pcm changed), then service function "Reset the Knock Sensor Learned Values" should be run. Forscan can do this (from version 2.1.18). True Ford Enthusiast. 1.4k. Name: William. Ford Model: focus tdci 1800. Ford Year: 2004. UK/Ireland Location: Somerset. Posted March 16, 2015. My opinion is on the turbo if you don't know what you are doing suck it up and go to a respected garage.I had mine replaced last year with a genuine Ford turbo cost me About £1150 give or take a few On the 1.8 TDCI the replacement interval for both the timing belt and the timing chain is 125.000 Miles/200.000 KM or 10 Years (whichever comes first). The 1.8 TDCI has a timing belt between the camshaft and the fuel pump and a timing chain (or wetbelt after approximately 2008) between the fuel pump and the crankshaft.

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