Readout for engine hours

Mondaveo · 21-09-2022, 10:17 PM

2011 TDCi with Convers+ dashboard.

Does anyone happen to know if we can see a readout of the engine hours, either through connecting an OBDII scantool or within the instrument cluster?

I'm sure at some point in the past I saw such a value from my car, but I have searched through the PIDs exposed through Forscan and also the Convers+ menus and diagnostic mode, and now I can't find it. Have I missed it, or is it simply a figment of my imagination?

Planning to get an oil analysis done with my next oil change, and engine hours is one of the parameters available to fill on the paperwork, which is what made me want to find it.

cobrin · 21-09-2022, 10:28 PM

Don't stress, sure it's a parameter to fill, but it's not like they can't still analyze the oil and relate it back to the vehicle's age and mileage, over engine hours.

Mondaveo · 21-09-2022, 10:34 PM

Sure, I know it's not essential to have a number (or probably even make much difference at all), I'm just a completionist, ya know?

Besides I have this memory of seeing it before, so it piques me that now I can't find it...

cobrin · 22-09-2022, 12:14 PM

Then let me assist you, just now it popped into my head after I too was sure I've seen it. I can't test it as the vehicle is gone but do you remember the hidden menu on convers+ ? (trying to find my own pics of the menu now, thanks for that lol)

It'll be there under 'Manufacturer Hours'. It'll be in hexadecimal, so you'll have to convert it to decimal, which there are online calculators.

Just googled an example, it's there. Now I can put it to rest :P

Mondaveo · 04-10-2022, 10:54 PM

Sure, I know the diagnostic mode for the instrument panel...
- Engine off
- Hold OK button
- Switch on ignition (without starting engine)
- Keep holding OK until 'TEST' is shown on the display

I'd seen the 'Manufacture start' and 'Manufacture hours' pages, but I didn't know what they represented - you reckon 'Manufacture hours' keeps score of the number of hours the engine's run?

'Manufacture start' 6E = 110
'Manufacture hours' 1CBE = 7358

So if that's hours then I've averaged about 1 hour per 20km on the odo, or roughly 700 hours per year, seem a bit high but I guess is reasonable. But, I read those values over a week ago, and have done a few hours driving since, but the values haven't changed. I'd expect it to increment if it was really tracking engine runtime.

Also, I found this example that reports a value of 0018 (equals 24) for a Focus that was four years and 90,000km old: https://www.fordownersclub.com/forum...unction-error/

So I'm not convinced this tells us engine hours?