PSA DW10C engine characteristics in Ford applications?

[DickP]

Hi,

As you might have seen documented in my previous posts, I am looking at moving on my third generation Ford Focus 2.0 TDCi because even after over 10k miles I am not getting on as well with it as I had hoped. Before committing to moving it on, I have a couple of points I would like to run pass PH's collective knowledge and experience.

The main gripes with the car are as follows.

1. Excessively power assisted braking.
2. Having to raise the engine revs to around 2,000rpm when pulling away, otherwise the (presumably) anti-stall kicks in and it will begin blipping between idle and 1,800rpm whilst slipping the clutch. As you can imagine if it starts blipping the revs, it makes it challenging for a smooth pull away. When others have driven it, they find it hard to adjust to the necessity to rev the engine more than they may be accustomed to when setting off in order to pull away smooth without the engine blipping.

I appreciate I can do little about the first point and am told it is a common trait of cars built from around 2010 onwards.

The second point is reputed on Ford forums to not be unusual and has been associated with Ford having an incapacity to map engines properly. This would correlate with my lack of fault codes and not finding any obvious anomalies in the engine sensor data (via Forscan).

For those in the know, am I experiencing typical characteristics of this engine (PSA DW10C) in a Ford application?

Given there are thousands of the fourth generation (facelift) Mondeo, does the engine behave normally in that car and it is just the Focus which suffers this issue?

Thoughts welcome.

Thanks,

[DickP]

Hi

Is this a QI "Nobody Knows" moment?