Amonti72

I apolgise if this has already been covered in a previous thread.

On the weekend I hopped into my Territory to duck up to the shops, put the key in the ignition and cranked it over expecting the car to fire up within the 5 - 10 seconds that it normally does, only to find that when I let go of the key the tacho went straight back to zero revs. I then proceeded to crank it over again for about 15 - 20 seconds and it still wouldn't start. I tried this three more times without any result. By this stage I was starting to get concerned about my 3 month old vehicle not starting and thought it best that a professional have a look at it.

At this point I called the Ford Roadside Assistance Line who promptly sent someone out (To my surprise it was actually an NRMA Roadside assistance person). The gentleman simply cranked the motor over with his foot flat on the accelerator and it fired up.

Unfortunately I was at the shops when the gentleman came out to look at the car, however it was later relayed to me by my wife who was home at the time, that this is a known problem with this particular motor across the falcon range. He said that this is a common occurrence when the car is cold.

Has anyone else experienced this ?

I plan on having this investigated by the dealer I bought the car from, however I wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this problem and whether they had followed it up with the dealer to see if there is anything they can do to resolve this problem.