RE: Ask the Car Guy @socky June 28
my apologies socky, i thought i knew what i was talking about when i said my car doesnt have an ecu because its not fuel injected, i was wrong. i think it goes, all fuel injected cars have an ecu and not, only fuel injected cars have ecu's, sorry im no mechanic, should have taken your word for that as ur the car guy. anyway, i have another fault on my piece of shit ford fusion 2 1.4 petrol, today it gave me a fault, eac fail. i sluggishly drove it in a car park, turned the engine off and turned it back on and the fault was gone. its the 1st time its happened since ive had it. it has always taken forever for the revs to drop also which made me think electronic accelerator sensor??? but i dont know, im looking at a fault code reader, this 1, https://www.ebay.co.uk/p/Car-Engine-Fault-Auto-Code-Reader-Diagnostic-Reset-Scanner-Tool-Obd2-Bus-EOBD-UK/26008832884?iid=292270324804&_trkparms=aid%3D555018%26algo%3DPL.SIM%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D49129%26meid%3D5a61f50f60d246d88d5f2df5149aaa7d%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D12%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D272713992050%26itm%3D292270324804&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
would u recommend i buy it?
Hey that is really cheap. Just verify your car is an OBD2 system. If the UK is like the US, there are auto parts stores that will have the code reader and will read the codes for free. Some codes will automatically reset while others will keep the engine light on until the power is cycled. Try to see if the auto parts store will read the codes for free. If there are no codes, then you may need to buy the scanner and read the codes while driving.
thanks socky il ask em to read the codes. it is an obd2 system so if they cant do it (i will be amazed if they do) il buy that and try it out, thanks again il come back later.