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[Varche]

Well my dads 18 month old Fiesta had the EML light come on tonight. He just pulls over and switches off and it is gone when he restarts. By EML I mean the yellow spanner and in info section White spanner - see manual.

Seems he has had it before and taken it to main dealer and they just go outside drive up and down  and say nowt wrong with it and toss him the keys.

Would I be right in saying a code reader would show stored codes ? Would it be for each occurrence or one per issue regardless of number of times it has happened?

[aaronjb]

Depends what the fault is - many (most?) generic code readers can only read generic engine codes; most cars these days have a barrage of manufacturer specific codes buried in secondary ECUs that only expensive diagnostic machines can read.. you can easily end up with the light on but No Fault Found with a generic reader, unfortunately

Worth a shot, though. Generic reader will probably just flag a code and number of times it has been recorded, more expensive diags will often give you freeze frame data of every occurrence of the fault (on older cars that's sometimes just the mileage it happened at, newer cars may give you a freeze-frame of all sensor data to aid diagnostics)

[Varche]

Thanks.

I haven't got time while I am here to  get it somewhere to have codes read. My brother is going to-get it to an independent garage

[Doctor Gollum]

What is it with nearly new cars and independent garages

It's 18 months old FFS. Throw it back to Ford.

[Sir Tigger KC]

What is it with nearly new cars and independent garages

It's 18 months old FFS. Throw it back to Ford.

Seems he has had it before and taken it to main dealer and they just go outside drive up and down  and say nowt wrong with it and toss him the keys.

It appears that he has! 

Seems like a good plan to me if the dealer doesn't want to know.  Get the codes read and then take it back to Ford! 

[Varche]

Just had a look and it is a 17 reg. so I reckon it is 25 months old.

Sadly there are some family dynamics at play otherwise I would be at the Ford dealer asking for it to be fixed FOC . So it may get fixed by an independent or may not.