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Hi

We have a Mondeo Estate 2 ltr tdci.  It is an 03 plate with 75000 miles on the clock.  Over the last month we have driven this car about 1 day.  The rest of the time it has been in the garage having major repairs. 

1.    New clutch.  Very smelly.  Turns out the mass flywheel was going.  £700 to replace.

2.    Over the past eighteen months we have had problems with the car cutting out.  It has been back to ford about three times, been through diagnostics and the have put in various sensors.  This would keep it going for a while until it started again.  Then about a month ago we had it serviced.  The fuel filter needed changing at this service and because they needed to de pressurize the fuel pump, it turns out that the fuel pump was the cause of all the cutting out problems.  Then the fuel injectors went and now it has something wrong with the cylinders.

Has anyone else had major problems with their mondeos.  So far we have spent £2500 on it!!!!!!

And the maddening thing is, it went out of warranty in may this year

Thanks

we had the clutch and dm flywheel done as a precaution a few months ago, £450.other than that its been fine.we have the tddi version,less electronics to go wrong.

these faults you have are common on the tdci.Ford usually do a software upgrade to sort the cutting out gremlins but i have heard of others with fuel pump and injector problems.

have a look here for more info.

http://fordmondeo.org/forum

I would take up the issue with for ref the dm flywheel.

A mate of mine has a chain of garages and he says that the dm on a transit only last around 60k. On this type of vehicle that's a huge problem as they can do that milage a year i think ford may have a serious issue with this i would push  the warranty good will gesture and see were it gets you.

Bessie500    

Bought a tddi, in 3 weeks of ownership the problems we had were :

Rear suspension bushes knackered,

Front Suspension Strutt worked loose and almost detached itself from the housing,

Camchain oil seal blew,

Bonnet alarm switch sensor failed so the alarm wouldnt stop going off,

Rear Bootlid servo failed so the boot wouldnt shut,

All these problems were fixed by the garage and very grateful I am to them too. If they hadnt just been bought out by Reg Vardy I'd definately go back. But as they have been bought by Vardys I will never step foot in there again. Dont ask why, its a long, costly and stressful story.

How do you know when the flywheel is faulty? Does it give warning before packing in completely?

I have a y reg ( new shape) 2.0 l petrol Mondeo. It seems the clutch slips but not as Ive known clutches slip before. It kind of slips slightly for a second or so after changing gear and then its ok. Its wierd to describe but feels like driving an automatic.

Does this mean that my clutch/ flywheel is on the way out?

Thanks

Mark

Hi Richard,

Whats a DMF? ( i figured F is flywhel) Where are these £200 kits? I was quoted £350 for clutch and flywheel.

Thanks

Mark

Quote: It's not the clutch that's at fault, it's the flywheel, as you note - the clutch is standard. The flywheel's dual-mass - this means that instead of being machined out of one solid piece of cast iron, it's made out of two different metals, bonded together with a rubber sandwich. I think this is supposed to help damp out vibrations as the drive is taken up. However, similar to the rubber bonded crankshaft pulley, they eventually fall apart. When this happens, the central part stays bolted to the crank shaft, whilst the outer part exits stage left via the bellhousing and usually the radiator, and probably smashing the input shaft as well. Cue new clutch, flywheel, radiator and exchange gearbox. However, there does appear to be a warning, and that is a small squeak heard on starting and stopping the engine, and possibly on taking up the drive. So you probably end up replacing the clutch long before it's really worn out, since you need to replace the flywheel as its debonding. DM flywheels are expensinve though - £300 + - alhough I believe LUK do a replacement clutch / flywheel kit with a solid flywheel. In the event of clutch replacement because it is worn out, the DM flywheel should be replaced as a matter of course. Typical life seems to be in the range 75-100k - same as the crank pulley!