focus hesitation

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Tue 24 May 2005 11:44
focus hesitation - vin
I have a Focus 1.8 Ghia that hesitates badly after being started.

The fault occurs after the car has been stood a few hours. What happens is it starts up as normal, but won't rev up/hesitates. After trying to rev it up a couple of times everything is back to normal. Once up to temperature the fault doesn't occur. It's slowly got worse over the past two weeks.

I'm reluctant to take it to my local ford dealer, has anyone experienced similar problems?
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Tue 24 May 2005 13:51
focus hesitation - Snakey
My 1.8 Focus was OK starting then a little reluctant to pull until warmed up until I discovered one of the HT leads was almost off.

Surprised me as I would expected a misfire first but presumably the ECU is doing its best to cover the problem!
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Tue 24 May 2005 13:57
focus hesitation - Adam {P}
Mine did what yours is doing vin only a lot worse. Turned out to be the coil pack.

65,000 miles (ish). Same car.
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