[Penford]

Hoping someone might be able to shed some light on this problem.
My daughter has a Focus LX 2009 plate and done about 214k km and has an intermittent fault when going to start.

Keys in and turned to start and nothing happens but a message pops up with all warning lights illuminated. Message says "Engine malfunction".

Turn it off walk away and come back an hour later and it starts!!!! Weird. Was intermittent at the start but now is more frequent.

Tends to do this in hot weather and can sometimes happen even when the car is driving and it cuts out with all warning lights on and the same message.

Had it into an auto-electrican and they say hand it into a ford garage as there's a control module fault. Not sure what a control module does....anyone know.

It's beginning to sound expensive. Just curious if anyone has experienced this problem before. Otherwise into a ford garage