Engine Cuts Out At Any Speed Starts, Any Thoughts?

[80 RPM]

Hi all,

Well I cant say my ford experience has been well fun!

after 8 thousand k's my extractors have cracked, my ball joints need to be replaced and the power steer hose needs to be replaced

I have finally got all that sorted though and ford are fixing it next friday

(I bought it with 70k on the clock and have a "ford dealer warranty" the harrier one)

but..

I have another problem

@110km/h(or any speed now) my car cuts out just/stalls, you take it out of gear start it and it starts fine and runs fine for another 5 minutes

I cant drive it down the street now without it cutting out and its quite dangerous as it cuts out mid corners and your left with no power steer to make it through the corner

I just noticed this thread posted by another xr owner acouple of days ago

while its similar mine is not turbo

At first I thought it might have been the clutch but to me it seems electrical as when presure is applied to the pedal not to acc etc just to hold road speed it throttles up and down constantly and I have my foot half resting on the side of the trim so I know its not me changing pressure on the pedal

Has anyone experienced anything similar?

I am going to look at the throttle body tommorow

but it now sounds like a wrx which makes me think it might be the coil pack - as sujested in the other post

As always any ideas thought or sujestions muchly appreciated

Regards,

Ryan

Edited 20/03/08 08:50 AM by 80 RPM

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Probably a stupid question...but have they checked out the throttle position sensor?

[whistler6]

I'm having the same problem, mine seems to cut out during slowing down, taking a slow bend/corner or sitting at the lights sometimes.....

Engine just cuts out and battery light comes on but all the other electrics still work

I.e lights, radio etc....

I'm stumped???

[80 RPM]

Probably a stupid question...but have they checked out the throttle position sensor?

I asked this question when I had the car serviced their answer was you cant "adjust" the TPS?

They re did the computer etc and there were no updates oranything similar etc

I'd really like to know what it is before I take it to ford on friday to find out why all of a sudden its doing this

the engine light comes on and stays on for a while but then goes off

Will check the spark plugs tommorow as well

To think I bought this car so I didn't have to fiddle with cars! who was I kidding!

Thanks for the sujestions.

Ryan.

[80 RPM]

I'm having the same problem, mine seems to cut out during slowing down, taking a slow bend/corner or sitting at the lights sometimes.....

Engine just cuts out and battery light comes on but all the other electrics still work

I.e lights, radio etc....

I'm stumped???

I have this same problem

I hoped the refashing of the computer would fix it but it didn't

mine only happens at the lights though when you got a few electrics running and the idle dip is to much!

[80 RPM]

So I did some googling this morning and found THIS

So I went out side and started my car and would you belive it? the bloody thing runs fine

I took it for a quick drive down the freeway and nothing just like normal.

I wonder wether the TPS is heat sensitive I had a long drive yesterday in all about 4 hours in traffic

I wonder wether it is effected by heat soak?

Regardless I am going to pull the throotle body off this afternoon and clean it!

will ford be able to plug in the computer and tell me the the TPS is stuffed?

Regards,

Ryan.

[4CDXR6]

about 2 weeks after I got my xr6 (03, 75,000km) , I was driving it home from work, was about 4 mins into the trip and all of a sudden lost all power, got the massive engine shakes, and sounded reeeaaallly crook.. and engine light on etc.. left it for a little bit, started it up and went fine, drove it home, and happened again on way home.. (total trip home from work is about 15 mins) .. parked it up .. straight to ford in the morning and they changed out the TPS .. apparently it was faulty.. and its never happened again since.

kinda like your problem, but I never had engine cut out..

[80 RPM]

kinda like your problem, but I never had engine cut out..

When I describe it cutting out the engine sorta doesn't stop its still going but you cant hear it just goes to idle I guess

sounds very similar though

[BFHOON]

mine was doing the intermittent wrx noise and it turned out to be a misfitted rubber stopper on the number one spark plug.

under the rocker cover garnish theres a set of rubbers that hold down the coil pack onto the spark plug.

[80 RPM]

Will Check that out tonight

Its going back to ford to get all the other stuff fixed tommorow

Further to this though I was Very disapointed in ford And I think this will be the last I own Back to japanesse reliability!

I rang ford australia and they didn't want to have a bar of it out of warranty does not concern them

the car has only done 80 thousand k's its only gone over the 3 year part of the warranty!

They don't even further their product support for cars out of warranty "not their problem" was the answer I got, its a dealer problem!

and to cap it off I rung the parts dept to find out how many of these TPS's they have sold

10 this month 15 since december!

I asked wether this is flagging at ford australia that all these parts are failing they said no!

I bought a Aussie built car (have had all japanese so far) to support local automotive industry

but if australia cant workout how to support customers in their own country when other manufactures abroad can and do! what hope have we got!!

end rant

I'll just pay to fix my new car that I bought on the assumtion that being australian built would mean I have back up support and knowledge!