2011 1.6 ford focus revving itself and loss of power problem

[Garwood999]

Hello,

I wonder if anyone can shed any light into my issue....

I have a 2011 1.6 Focus Titanium 125 (petrol) Today after about 3 minutes of driving I stopped at red traffic lights in neutral when the car started revving on its own. It would rev to about 1500 rpm then idle, then back at 1500rpm then idle and it continued but got quicker and quicker in between (but didn't go above 1500rpm ish)

I turned the car off then started it again and it did it again straight away. I then tried to drive it off and it had no power, spluttered, was totally sluggish but I managed to get it top a safe place to stop.
I left the car off for about 4 mins, started it again and it was fine! drove off, no problems! The car only has 33,000 miles on the clock, it has been looked after but this boggles me.... Also during the whole episode, NO warning lights on the dash came on

Does anyone have a clue? I was thinking maybe a bad sensor or something? I am practically minded but im no mechanic!

[Fragall2]

Hi

Did you manage to find out what this problem was, as exactly the same thing has happened to our 2011 Ford Focus Titanium 1.6?

Its been switched off a number of times now, and left for about an hour each time but it still isn't behaving when you switch it on. Revs just go straight to 1500 and it constantly revs slightly. Pressing the accelerator raises it by about 100 revs but that's it.

At the moment it's totally unusable.

[Garwood999]

No, not found anything yet... Ours seems to be ok at the moment so it seems to be temperamental????

[S0 What]

95% of the time it's the idle control solenoid valve, either needs cleaning or replacing, dont usually throw up an MIL unless totaly shorted out internaly.