Our MH is a 2010 Ford Transit based with a 2.2L engine and a 6 speed gearbox. When we purchased a little over 2 years ago there was 15000 miles on the clock.
My first impressions of driving it, I felt it was a bit sluggish and slow to respond with power. I put it down to be parked up for a while because the milage was soo low.
Last year while touring the back roads of Malin Beg in Donegal, the engine management light came on, but we got home a few days later.
Afterwards the MH was booked into the local ford dealer for a full service who afterwards informed us of an update to the fuel management software which fixed the engine management light. The engine ran smoother, less rpm needed for gear changes and better fuel economy.
The downside was while cruising along and then you met a hill, there was no power to get up it. The solution was to drop back to 3/4th gear, to get up the hill. Back to Mr ford dealer who informed me that my engine was too small for a 3500kg MH. Lets just say that he was not on the Christmas card list last year.
Last August, when we were making our way back to Cherbourg in France, as some folks here know, the motorway is quite steep in places, our engine management light comes on again. Gurrrr!!!! But most importantly we got home.
This time the MH was brought to a new garage here which was setup by a guy from eastern Europe. Within a minute of plugging in his laptop, he diagnosised the problem as been a faulty egr valve and what more it has been faulty for the last 3 years according to the fault logs on the ecu. Mr ford was soo good that they forgot to wipe the faults from the ecu.
Our egr was stuck fully open which meant when the engine has to produce more power the exhaust gases were choking the engine, hence the reason why, I was down shifting so much.
Why do these engine engineers make everytime soo complicated these days? I remember a time when the only tools need to fix an engine was a vicegrip and a screwdriver.
Malcolm
My first impressions of driving it, I felt it was a bit sluggish and slow to respond with power. I put it down to be parked up for a while because the milage was soo low.
Last year while touring the back roads of Malin Beg in Donegal, the engine management light came on, but we got home a few days later.
Afterwards the MH was booked into the local ford dealer for a full service who afterwards informed us of an update to the fuel management software which fixed the engine management light. The engine ran smoother, less rpm needed for gear changes and better fuel economy.
The downside was while cruising along and then you met a hill, there was no power to get up it. The solution was to drop back to 3/4th gear, to get up the hill. Back to Mr ford dealer who informed me that my engine was too small for a 3500kg MH. Lets just say that he was not on the Christmas card list last year.
Last August, when we were making our way back to Cherbourg in France, as some folks here know, the motorway is quite steep in places, our engine management light comes on again. Gurrrr!!!! But most importantly we got home.
This time the MH was brought to a new garage here which was setup by a guy from eastern Europe. Within a minute of plugging in his laptop, he diagnosised the problem as been a faulty egr valve and what more it has been faulty for the last 3 years according to the fault logs on the ecu. Mr ford was soo good that they forgot to wipe the faults from the ecu.
Our egr was stuck fully open which meant when the engine has to produce more power the exhaust gases were choking the engine, hence the reason why, I was down shifting so much.
Why do these engine engineers make everytime soo complicated these days? I remember a time when the only tools need to fix an engine was a vicegrip and a screwdriver.
Malcolm