So I just bought this 2019 Ford Fiesta ST from this dealership. It’s a salvaged restored title and it got hit (if you were facing the car) on the right side, so not even near any engine components and it wasn’t even hit hard either. I drove it for 24 hours and it seemed fine. However, the next morning, I am getting ready for work and I see the check engine light on. I checked the code and it said Misfire Cylinder 1. In my thoughts I was like, no way, because this car only has 38,000 miles on it. So I drove it around for a little bit, did fine, but then when I parked it, the engine light was blinking… I did a little diagnostic trick and switched the coil packs from Cylinder 1 to Cylinder 2, just to see if it was the sparkplugs. Lo and behold, it blew the check engine light for Cylinder 1 again. I just want to confirm because there is absolutely no way this motor is bad at such a low mileage, and the hit to the vehicle wasn’t that strong when it was in that car accident. If my diagnostic is correct, could it either be just a lose spark plug, or a bad sparkplug? It’s just weird because if the car was fixed, the sparkplugs should have been changed. (But by looking at the engine bay, it being so dusty, it probably wasn’t). Let me know your thoughts. Thank you.
P.S. I work 14 hour shifts so I didn’t have time to check the spark plugs. And it happened today this post was made.
P.S. I work 14 hour shifts so I didn’t have time to check the spark plugs. And it happened today this post was made.