does any one elses st not start first time sometimes?? it happens just out the blue and i always have at least half a tank a petrol, phoned up ford but they said if it starts first time when a take it in they will charge me £25 which a think is crap and, he said we prober;y wont find it as we have never had an st in with this fault before and our ecu never logs anything its crap haha glad to see an ownest person has any one else has this prob and can you tell me how it was fixed?? i wait a couple a secounds before i turn on the car as so its not if i dont give time

There was a post about this a little while back:

http://www.fordfiestast.co.uk/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=55937&an=0&page=2#55937

Paul

I very occasionally have a problem when trying to start it after it's been sat for about 15 mins after stopping it. Say after going shopping at the supermarket. It just refuses to start properly until the about the third turn of the key. Not sure if it's heat soak boiling the fuel or the ECU gets bamboozled by that particular set of temperatures and pressures.

generally it starts fine provided I make sure I wait till the immobiliser light goes out before starting.

had this problem with both my clio sports it was the tdc sensor or otherwise known as the crank sensor dont know if its the same with the st

I spoke to one of the Ford mechanics, he said that this was a fairly common problem, in fact a mate with a fairly new 1.6 focus said she has the same problem from time to time.
Apparently it is due to slight flooding of the engine, so if you depress the accelorator for a few seconds and restart, it should be fine. Seems to have worked so far....

what do you mean depress acceelorator ?? when i start it i wait for lights then push in clutch and turn key dont touch the accelorator??:S