For 4 week my ford focus 57 plate automatic estate showed the messages TRANSMISSION MALFUNCTION, ACCELERATION REDUCED and ENGINE SYSTEM FAULT. I drove it for weeks as I was too busy to get to the garage. The side effects were only struggling to get above 2000 revs. Eventually ENGINE SYSTEM FAULT was more common and followed by the same message and the car was dead when I turned the key. No sound, but lights were on the dash still. My friend is a hobby mechanic and changed a couple of sensors but it didn't work. PO500 is on the diagnostic. Then it was regularly dead and I had to park it up for a couple of weeks while I caught the bus to work. I'm booked into an Automatic car specialist in a few days but today my friend came round after the Christmas break and did another diagnostic which showed IMMOBILISER as an issue , he also jump started my battery cos he thought that may be the reason (though NO battery light appeared on the dash). We drove it around, it passed a nervous MOT test and has been perfect since, with no errors on the dash at all. He also suggested I had a loose solder connection or needed a transmission fluid top up incase I had a leak. Strange . What are your thoughts? Thanks, Wayne, Birmingham England.
For 4 week my ford focus 57 plate automatic estate showed the messages TRANSMISSION MALFUNCTION, ACCELERATION REDUCED and ENGINE SYSTEM FAULT. I drove it for weeks as I was too busy to get to the garage. The side effects were only struggling to get above 2000 revs. Eventually ENGINE SYSTEM FAULT was more common and followed by the same message and the car was dead when I turned the key. No sound, but lights were on the dash still. My friend is a hobby mechanic and changed a couple of sensors but it didn't work. PO500 is on the diagnostic. Then it was regularly dead and I had to park it up for a couple of weeks while I caught the bus to work. I'm booked into an Automatic car specialist in a few days but today my friend came round after the Christmas break and did another diagnostic which showed IMMOBILISER as an issue , he also jump started my battery cos he thought that may be the reason (though NO battery light appeared on the dash). We drove it around, it passed a nervous MOT test and has been perfect since, with no errors on the dash at all. He also suggested I had a loose solder connection or needed a transmission fluid top up incase I had a leak. Strange . What are your thoughts? Thanks, Wayne, Birmingham England.
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