Focus Diesel advice please.

[Jamie84]

Hi , Think I posted a while back that I bought an old Ford Focus estate as a runaround while renovating our house , well got a major problem and wondered if anyone can help/advise .

Cut out on me the other night , AA out etc. got it to garage today and they reckon the diesel pump is goosed and gave me a ballpark of a grand to sort it , apparently the pump is electronically tagged to each vehical or somthing which pushes the cost up .

I only paid a grand for it , granted it is a banger and has nearly 120k miles on the clock but its ran great for over 8 months with only one fault and has came in very handy , but I dont really fancy forking out that kind of cash on it .

Being pretty much clueless on technical side to cars , I wondered if anyone can share any knowledge on this fault and perhaps give an indication if the ballpark figure is correct?

Failing sorting the car any suggestions what to do with it ? will scrappys pay cash for it ?

This comes at the end of a week where I've flushed my phone down the toilet (gone, sewers) , broke down at traffic lights looking like a right twat and had problems at work ........bah humbug .

Cheers .

[tuscan_thunder]

what age is it? is it the TD or TDCI engine?

if it's the TD, it'd run on any equivalent fuel pump, none of this 'tagged' pish. (you'll get on in a scrappy for peanuts, same engine in mondeo TD as well)

TDCI, nae right sure but this it'll run on any pump from a scrappy too. The TDCI pump will be dearer.

Try bleeding the system first, replace the filters (filters are dirt cheap) - system's so easy to bleed even I can do it.

[Ferg]

My father-in-law changed a focus deisel engine recently and came across the same problem. You do indeed need to get the ECU paired with the engine/fuel system which was news to him too, but without it the car just wouldn't start. He was able to get a Ford garage to do the ECU reset for a small sum. It was definately a couple of hundered quid which he really hated paying as you'd imagine. But that was the only available solution he had for pairing the ECU.

Not huge help but at least confirms the existence of such a pairing issue. I'll ask him what the cost was and what they did exactly if it will help.

[Jamie84]

Thanks for the advice guys , done some research and seems around the 1k mark is the norm for this job maybe just scrap it and perhaps try and get a new van in the new year .

[Jamie84]

http://www.dieselpumprepairs.com/#/test ... 4533125393

Worth a bash ? seems such a waste to scrap this old work horse

[Jamie84]

http://www.mcalisterfuelinjection.co.uk ... ct_us.html

Had a brief chat with guy from here , and he said all may not be lost , pump could be repairable . Anyone any experiance in this type of repair.

[Ferg]

Phoned the father-in-law to ask him. He said the problem he had was because the imobilser key is keyed to the fuel system. The Ford garage reset it for £50 so it might be worth looking at getting a replacement fitted by someone else and then getting the ford garage to reset. TBH I can't say for sure it's the same issue your having but worth saying anyway.
Might be worth finding out if a modern auto sparky can do the same job?