Tom's Sanitary towel

[bashbarnard]

So, filled it up on Friday and washed it yesterday ready for the EA meet and...

It wouldn't start this morning.  Basically I got in, the immobiliser light was flashing away, the display read 'engine temp too hot' and a few other lights etc on.  Tried to start it and it wouldn't catch, seems like an immob fault but whats with the temp message etc!?  Was already late for the meet so jumped in the dirty Focus and took that instead.

Popped back while others where risking death in boats and tried starting it again, started this time but with the engine light on, drove weird as well.  Read these fault codes - all fresh since last week but probably overnight as it was fine yesterday!






















How can so many different parts of the canbus system fail at once?  Can heat effect it!?  Or could water have got in?  I only washed it with a bucket and watering can yesterday, no hose or jetwash or under-bonnet clean.

Got back after the meet, tried starting it and it's fine now, drives fine as well.  So not sure if thats fixed itself or if it's gonna happen again...

As ruan says check the ecu connector. they dont really have a central unit. its by the battery box and is a really common failure on them howver its a really easy fix if it does turn out to be that as there are many places that repair the eucs. no idea what they do though. if it comes up again let me know and ill pop over to have a nose one day and lend a hand if need be.