ford escort stalling

Nov 20, 2004 9 Replies
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This isn't my car it's someone on a messageboard I post on:



Bought a P reg Ford Escort Automatic about 2 months ago and its turning out to be a bit of a nightmare. Car starts up fine, but stalls when I put it in gear, or stalls when I begin to move off. At the moment its taking me ten minutes every morning to warm the car up before I can drive anywhere. Stalls anywhere from once to 5 or 6 times. Once its warmed up and running its fine. I've been told it might be something to do with the ZTec engine. Any ideas anyone? Besides sell it on ebay for half the price I paid for it


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That's about the best thing you can do with an old Escort Slushomatic.

Utterly horrible cars.

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A

Absolutely.

The stalling could one of many things. Indeed Ford has a bulletin covering about a dozen repairs for these. Initially suspect the plugs and leads, but it's most likely to be the sticky valves.

Being the auto, it's also likely to be a stuffed magnetic clutch, or a problem in the box. Ford never did fix the shuddering and stalling at idle.

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The message from snipped-for-privacy@spamcop.net (Andy Hewitt) contains these words:

Did the Ford version have the magnetic clutch? I thought only the Nissan version did that.

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AFAIK all the vario type auto boxes use a magnetic clutch (apart from DAF/Volvo, which used vacuum).

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Christ. It's CVT.

In which case it'd be going on ebay ASAP, and I'd take whatever I could get for it.

Mind you, I wouldn't have been stupid enough to have bought a Ford CVT in the first place.

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Oh yes, all the Escorts were after 1994.

Yup.

Alfa Romeo ;-)

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Heh.

Even you will have to admit that the 75 and 155 T-Sparks are pretty damned reliable cars.....

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Yeah, not bad as it happens. Certainly much better than an Escort CVT.

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Thanks for the advise. I think it's going on ebay...

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