My daughter has our old fiesta 52 plate 1.4 zetec and it went into limp mode yesterday :(

Came up with "EAC Fail" got to local garage and it had 3 faults: remeber the manifold pressure, not sure on other two.

Anyway she managed to get it back to the Midlands without any other incidents but now stuck on what to do.

Reading up there are hundreds of reports of this fault but no definitive answer as to what other than it seems to be related to the ECU (pcm).

All the reading shows people paying around £600/£800 trying to sort it.

My dilemma is the car even with its 67k miles is only worth a grand or so, should the fault be pursued with the given potential to cost silly money or is it time to trade it on and get something newer?

Really need my daughter in a reliable car as we are hundreds of miles away and hate the hassle when things go wrong.

I have a 1.4 Zetec on a 04 plate. Bought the car at about 66,000 miles 2.5 years ago, now its on 98,500 miles and I have had the 'EAC fail' warning a handful of times.

 

So far I have been able to sort the issue by turning off the ignition and restarting the engine. So far (touch wood) this has worked every time.

 

I did do some reading around and read it might be the accelerator pedal and sensor that may need replacing, but at hundreds of pounds to do it, I haven't done it!

 

But as you say, the pedal might not be the only solution!

Where abouts are you? And what would you want for it?

If not I'd reset the codes and take it to a car sales place and trade it in

Location says Dartmoor, Toxic