Hi everyone,
I've been pulling my hair out over this one for months. It is completely erratic and I can not make any sense of it, sometimes weeks on end without issue and then sometimes back to back drives.
Essentially, I'm driving. I'll stop somewhere and expect the car to idle, the way cars should.
Except it doesn't, and the idle dips really low. I will usually catch it before stalling (it can if I leave it), bring the revs up a bit to around 1500 rpm and you can usually still hear and feel it's not happy.
I'll take off and it can either do it again and the next set of lights, or not happen again for weeks. Sometimes even on deceleration going back down through gears approaching a stop, you can hear extra pops, for no reason.
I've taken it to Ford, I've taken it to other mechanics and we're coming up short. When it happens (which is almost never when I'm actively data-logging) you do see fuel trims are all over the place.
We've replaced an o2 sensor and are running out of ideas to a cause.
It is a tuned car, and I'm having a local shop diagnose it for me, part of the issue is they can't access all the tuners tables and are working somewhat blind. That being said - has anyone had something similar? And found a cause?
I've been pulling my hair out over this one for months. It is completely erratic and I can not make any sense of it, sometimes weeks on end without issue and then sometimes back to back drives.
Essentially, I'm driving. I'll stop somewhere and expect the car to idle, the way cars should.
Except it doesn't, and the idle dips really low. I will usually catch it before stalling (it can if I leave it), bring the revs up a bit to around 1500 rpm and you can usually still hear and feel it's not happy.
I'll take off and it can either do it again and the next set of lights, or not happen again for weeks. Sometimes even on deceleration going back down through gears approaching a stop, you can hear extra pops, for no reason.
I've taken it to Ford, I've taken it to other mechanics and we're coming up short. When it happens (which is almost never when I'm actively data-logging) you do see fuel trims are all over the place.
We've replaced an o2 sensor and are running out of ideas to a cause.
It is a tuned car, and I'm having a local shop diagnose it for me, part of the issue is they can't access all the tuners tables and are working somewhat blind. That being said - has anyone had something similar? And found a cause?