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tony2 - 15 Apr 2006 20:44 GMT

yesterday whilst driving on the motorway the glow plug light started to
flash,a few miles later the engine cut out,i pulled over and it restarted
no problem,i then drove the 30mls home,it didnt do it again. anyone else
had this problem? it says in the hand book to see your main dealer if glow
plug light flashes, can anyone help?

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ford_technical_ - 16 Apr 2006 10:03 GMT

there will be some fault codes stored in the memory without these i carnt
say which area to start looking. however check the wiring going to the
camshaft position sensor(on the very top)the wiring may be chaffed on the
metal/alloy rocker cover

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tony2 - 16 Apr 2006 11:33 GMT

thanks ive checked wiring and it seems ok,i checked fault codes as
described at hhttp://focus.noegrots.com/diag/diag.htm.it shows
r31,e001,ffff,none,fo58, and then lots of other letters and numbers
according to the above site none means no faults? have i got this right?

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Alan - 16 Apr 2006 12:20 GMT

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<8f0dff19a754e5c7bd3b40108a541f25@localhost.talkaboutautos.com>, tony2
<warburtonj@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote

>thanks ive checked wiring and it seems ok,i checked fault codes as
>described at hhttp://focus.noegrots.com/diag/diag.htm.it shows
>r31,e001,ffff,none,fo58, and then lots of other letters and numbers
>according to the above site none means no faults? have i got this right?

The link above does not work but I suspect it only describes the codes
you can get on the odometer display. These are limited to the functions
reported on the dash and not the full range of engine codes.

You need a OBDII code reader to read the engine fault codes.

Links
<http://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/ford/index.php>
<http://www.obd-codes.com/trouble_codes/index.php>

To read the codes I have something like:-
<http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/OBDII-OBD-II-OBD2-OBD-2-Scanner-Code-Reader-GM-FOR
D_W0QQitemZ8048545006QQcategoryZ30921QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem>

Check also the news archives at Google groups (this is different to the
Google search engine) to see if anyone else has reported similar
problems.

<http://groups.google.com/>

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Acedrew - 16 Apr 2006 21:21 GMT

What year is the car?

> yesterday whilst driving on the motorway the glow plug light started to
> flash,a few miles later the engine cut out,i pulled over and it restarted
> no problem,i then drove the 30mls home,it didnt do it again. anyone else
> had this problem? it says in the hand book to see your main dealer if glow
> plug light flashes, can anyone help?

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tony2 - 17 Apr 2006 17:32 GMT

its a 2003 1.8tdci ghia estate with a 100k ffsh

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DervMan - 18 Apr 2006 18:55 GMT

> its a 2003 1.8tdci ghia estate with a 100k ffsh

Where are you based in the UK? I have an OBD-II device...

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tony2 - 18 Apr 2006 19:16 GMT

im in the manchester area,its going into the garage in the morning 19/4
but thank for the offer.

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