Ford Focus 1999 1.8 petrol.
This is a hard one I guess, but every few months, always around town at low speed, the Focus will kind of splutter to a halt like its run out of petrol. I do 2 x 260 mile motorway drives every month, and it has never conked out at that kind of fuel throughput.
I try and gently coax it back into life with the accelerator, like you might have done in the old days with a carb, and it comes and goes a bit, then dies. Immediately you turn off the ignition and restart, it fires up first time, and away you go like it never happened.
This happened this evening, but probably won't happen again for another 3 or
4 months.I'm thinking perhaps the fuel supply is intermittent, maybe the pump relay? I had a look at the fusebox in the engine bay today but couldn't see a relay designated fuel pump. There was one with what looked like the engine diagnostic icon you get on the dash - is that the one? The Haynes manual doesn't tell you what is what here.
Anyway I might be clutching at totally the wrong straws, but it should be a pretty simple process to swap or replace this relay to eliminate that as the problem.
This may or may not be related, but equally sporadically, and perhaps every
6 months or more, the ignition warning light will come on for one second, then just go off again with no other symptoms present. When the car splutters to a halt, there are no lights until the engine stops turning.Cheers,
Gareth.