Hi everybody.
I have a 2015 155hp transit econetic with 58000km on the meter and it has had different kinds of problems almost from the beginning.
Anybody ran into these same problems?
1. Expecially on a rainy weather, sometimes when I start the car at the morning the traction control light goes on and the motor temperature gauge doesn't rise at all even after driving ~50km. But after restarting the car the gauge jumps up and the traction control light stays off.
2. The torque is completely gone in low rpm but after the rpm rises and the turbo starts charging the power feels normal. It goes like that for a day and after that starts running normally again but the motor fault light goes on and also the traction control light and at least the traction control and possibly also abs is actually not in use.
Also a message saying "hillstart assist not available" appears.
I have taken the car to two different Ford dealers here in Finland and they both diagnosed it as a faulty or dirty egr valve.
The first company supposedly cleaned the valve but the problem came back after few weeks.
The other one just read the fault codes and ordered a new valve as a quarantee. Apparently they couldn't take a new one from the shelf because quarantee parts have a special delivery policy or something like that...
I really can't understand how a faulty egr valve could affect to some critical safety functions. Somehow sounds a bit made up story to cover up something else.
3. The steering has a weird spot where the steeringwheel kind of locks or sticks a little and I have to force it over the spot.
This usually happens when there are tracks in the road or a mild curve.
I mentioned this to the dealers also but after a quick check they just passed the issue by stating that the car is loaded the wrong way and the left side suspension has bottomed out.
I do have shelfs on the left side and pretty much all the equipment is located there but it is just electrical parts and tools so they really don't weigh that much.
Plus I have always had a same kind of setup in all my work cars including three different generation transits and never had this kind of problem before.
The problem exists with summer and winter tires and I have also tried with different tyre pressure