Got my new st yesterday, on a 55reg, seemed fine to start and until about 9:00pm last night, its started to struggle to start, sumtimes if fires up straight away, other times it turns over for a few seconds and i have to press the accelerator in a few times for it to fire up. surely this isnt a normal procedure with the st?! anyone got any advice as to finding and solving the problem, or any tips?

thanks

Hello mate! Amoung your paper work is there a record of your car having a ECU update. A s this is normally the cause of the problem. Mine was like this but the update cured this problem. Hope this helps.

Mo.

cant find anything in the books. isit a case of ringing ford up and telling them the problem and they should sort it out in a few hours? cant really afford to have my car taken off me for a few days as i use it for work

cheers guys, appreciate your help

If its been done ford should have a record of it so ask them, If not book in in to be done it should be free, wont take long to do, think its just an ecu download.

Mine was done while i waited. Took about 1/2 hr to do i f i remember correctly.

If not under warranty, how much does this generally cost?

I have a 55 plate and needed this done too. Ford did it for me in half an hour and since then, never had a problem starting her. I would say that they should do it for nothing as its a problem with the old firmware.

Cheers guys, got it booked in for next week. its not covered under the warrenty i got as i got it from a vauxhall dealership, but for peoples help, it costs £57

mine does this too... but im just out of warranty now

mine needs doing but ill get it done at some point in the future