Hi guys.
Recently, I've noticed that my car seems to be hiccuping quite a bit lately when just strolling along. If I'm accellerating, and do not have my foot on the accelerator, then it does not seem to have this problem. But, if I'm just strolling along keeping a steady speed, then I've noticed that it seems to be hiccuping.
About 5 years back (about 2 months after the warranty expired), I had an issue where I had the glowplug lights come on. Took it to the ford garage, who told me that the turbo needed replacing, £1500 please... Not happy with that, I had a look online, and noticed that it was probably the soot that was causing the issue. So, since then, every week, I have tried revving it high going uphill to clear out the soot. I've not had any problems until about 3 or 4 weeks ago, when I noticed this hiccuping had started...
Previously when accelerating uphill, if I'd done it just a few days ago, there would be no black smoke out the exhaust. Now, I can probably get it to give the black smoke every day when going to high revs...
Not sure whether the black smoke and hiccuping are related or not?!
Does anyone have any advice they can offer me please :)
Need to book it in to a garage, but thought I would come on here first to see if people have had similar issues/knowledge on the problem.
Thanks a lot :)
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