Broken down

for some reason it doesn't work on his car, it was the first thing I tried. I guess that the system is a bit primitive amd coupled with it now being 15 years old it just doesn't go, I did try myself, but the only way was to pull the fuse. In any case on a fiesta the fuse box is easily reached while seated in the drinver's seat. He has got better about leaving it running, once he understood the quirks of the system a little.

I was interested to read your post about these WOTs. Do all cars these days have them?

My car handbook actually suggests flooring the throttle if the car doesn't start so I suspected its computer took that as some kind of hint that you were trying to start a flooded engine, but it didn't say exactly how it worked-- but then it wouldn't because it's not written in that style.

Ben C was thinking very hard :

If they have an ECU, then probably yes.

That is using the WOT.

Yup. Unless you fix whatevers faulty then it slowly gets worse & you need more of it. Unless you're in Pery in which case you just need it :-)