veczar Gold Platinum Member Member 1,081 Member For: 20y 9m 14d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 03/10/05 03:54 AM Share Posted 03/10/05 03:54 AM I was out for a pre-wedding (night before the wedding in my other topic) with the groom and they other T driver...Suddently after drive for about 30 mins around the city there was no power, I mean none at all. The engine was still running but the accelerator did nothing. So I put it into nuetral and rolled to a stop in the middle of the road with my hazzard lights on. The other 2 T's made sure there was no trafic gona hit me.I turned off the engine and it still wouldnt start after extensive turning over (I also looked in the front for the hand crank hole but coulnt find one ). I turned it off and waited a few minutes then tried again and wolla back to life.About 2 minutes later the same thing happened but the engine stalled (I was doing about 40-50kmh). Turned it off and waited 30 secs then it started again. So all three T's went to a safe area and parked and we checked everything out that we could. Couldnt think of anything different except two things:1. I had got fuel that arvo2. A day ago ford did an A type service. They dropped the oil and put all new oil in.After about 30 mins of cool down time we went for another drive and I drive for another 30 mins no trouble. The next day we drove around all day doing photo shoots for the wedding etc and no problems... and a few days later still no probs.Maybe just a ghost in the system or a bad bit of fuel? I was thinking this could be very dangerous when driving on hills round corners at 100kmh.P.S. TC was turned OFF one of the two times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turb06 Dark Knight Mafia Member No. - 666 Member 3,667 Member For: 22y 1m 15d Location: Toowoomba Posted 03/10/05 04:25 AM Share Posted 03/10/05 04:25 AM I would ask ford if they flashed your ECU during the service, maybe they screwed that up somehow.Dazza. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColinT Donating Members 372 Member For: 20y 2m 8d Posted 03/10/05 06:03 AM Share Posted 03/10/05 06:03 AM I have read a couple of threads where the drive by wire accelerator failed, do you think it could be this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trough Lolly Member 4,349 Member For: 20y 7m 1d Gender: Male Location: Mildura Posted 03/10/05 06:04 AM Share Posted 03/10/05 06:04 AM if anything I would be asking for the LATEST flash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjc Donating Members 2,823 Member For: 21y 7m 6d Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 03/10/05 06:16 AM Share Posted 03/10/05 06:16 AM ColinT said: I have read a couple of threads where the drive by wire accelerator failed, do you think it could be this?Possibly that's what it is as my XR8 Ute started doing this as was said, the stalling, no throttle. It didnt do it for another week then just died and the idle when it started was all over the shop.If you have an engine light staying on in the dash then that the problem throttle control unit.Brett Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logsie Logsie Member 336 Member For: 20y 29d Location: Queensland (Brisbane) Posted 03/10/05 06:24 AM Share Posted 03/10/05 06:24 AM Mine did the same thing down in tassie I was pulling into a carpark and all of a sudden the whole car shut down, so I put her back into park turned her off and on luckly she started first go. Got me a little worried though.So I got it serviced in hobart on arrival, they reflashed it and havent had the problem since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veczar Gold Platinum Member Member 1,081 Member For: 20y 9m 14d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 03/10/05 07:59 AM Author Share Posted 03/10/05 07:59 AM No they did not touch the ECU on the service because I asked them not to, besides I think I have the latest anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WCE Member 20 Member For: 19y 11m 12d Gender: Male Location: WA Posted 05/10/05 01:41 AM Share Posted 05/10/05 01:41 AM mine did the same thing on the freeway about two months ago, when I pulled up the f*cking thing was barely idling and it stalled (it's an auto) . I tried starting it about 5 or 6 times no luck until the last attempt. after it started there was no problem at all, it was like nothing had ever happened. took it to centreford got it reflashed no problems since. modern technology, f*cking makes you feel helpless! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbro Member 26 Member For: 19y 8m 9d Posted 05/10/05 07:12 AM Share Posted 05/10/05 07:12 AM I had that on mine when I first got it then they reflashed it and it didnt do it untill about a month later but I think it was because it over heated and they haver a auto shut off if it gets to hot.the 1st time it happened it was beacuse my oil pressure was 2 low and that was because of the computer.just ask ford 2 re flash your car but that might bring your car back down to the boring old 5psi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veczar Gold Platinum Member Member 1,081 Member For: 20y 9m 14d Gender: Male Location: Victoria Posted 01/12/05 02:42 AM Author Share Posted 01/12/05 02:42 AM Ford found a wire going to the fuel pump was loose so it may have become disonnected somtimes. Maybe that was the problem. I havnt had a problem since. Thanks for you guys and girls input. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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