An update to the thread I posted 6 months ago*:
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?t=7049
When starting the engine of my Mondeo TDCi 130, for the first 3 or 4 seconds of running both the charging light and Engine Management light stayed on, the throttle pedal was unresponsive and the engine "chuntered" along at around 400rpm, before the fault cleared itself and the engine would pick up and run smoothly.
It turned out that this was an issue with the ECU programming, and a "patch" was issued by Ford in 2006 to rectify the problem. Ford main dealers, from the evidence on the Mondeo owners' forums anyway, seemed to be reluctant to update cars when owners asked them to. Instead the owners were fobbed off or charged for unnecessary and ineffective diagnostic tests that proved nothing, and then charged £100+ for the update itself.
Last week I found an independant local garage who specialise in ECU remaps and upgrades who seem to have all the right kit, after they were recommended to me by two separate people within a week. The garage carried out the update on my car this afternoon, so instead of software version 523/10/2005 my car now has version 650/11/2011 and the starting problem has gone away completely.
The cost? 30 quid plus VAT. Well happy.
*I started a new thread because resurrected threads on here tend to attract un-needed answers to the original question, and I didn't want anyone to waste their time composing one of those :)
Last edited by: Dave_TDCi on Mon 6 Feb 12 at 21:14
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Please can you provide garage details, as I have called 5 ford garagrs and they dont know of thr updaye
Last edited by: R.P. on Tue 24 Dec 13 at 19:01
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>> Please can you provide garage details
Sure. The owner, Dave, knows exactly what he's doing. The price may have gone up since I posted the original thread almost 2 years ago, and my Mondeo's long gone after its DPF imploded last October. Anyway:
London Road Garage
Scotlands Industrial Estate
London Road
Coalville
LE67 3JJ
01530 834694
www.londonroadgarage.com/
Last edited by: Dave_TiD on Wed 25 Dec 13 at 23:45
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Ford Mondeo III - 05 TDCi 130 ECU update fixes poor starting - Soft
