Mondeo diesel glow plug light flashing... oh dear oh dear.

[PitmanJack]

So today i drove from Barnsley to Basingstoke and then back again - almost 400 miles. Now, 300 of those miles were driven below 2000rpm and with super gentle acceleration - top speed is now 60mph max. Why? Because on the way down just as i was coming off the M1 the car decided to drop all boost when i accelerated and died on me.

So i pulled into the hard shoulder, turned off the engine, waited, turned it back on and then went to re-join traffic... and it happened again. Basically its fked and the next 300 miles were tedious and frustrating - try driving a turbo diesel without revving it enough to get the turbo spooling up and you'll see what i mean.

A Reliant Robbin overtook me for christ sake.

Any ideas what's wrong? Injectors? Broken turbo? EGR valve?

At this rate a new car might be on the cards this weekend. Bangernomics style.

[PitmanJack]

Its got 145k on it but I've only had the car just over 3 month. Its had 4 new tires, a new exhaust, tracking done and new front disks and pads fitted, plus a service. And now it behaves like this.

It might be time to cut my losses and get out while i can before it becomes a complete money pit.