Planty02
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Bought my Focus less than 6 months ago, and in time it's needed a spring replaced, a leaky windscreen fixed, a new alternator, a new air hose. And now its currently in the garage have a new clutch kit, flywheel and cam belt at a cost of £690 
List of stuff yet to fix: -
- Air bag light is on constantly
- starter motor plays up (already been refurbished by auto electrician once, but should apparently sort itself out once the clutch is done)
- Rear screen wash doesn't spray the screen (No idea where the water actually goes  )
Rant Over 
Focus For Sale 
[Edited on 06-04-2009 by Planty02]
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Eck
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That's what happens when you buy a new/old ford
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Planty02
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Lesson Learnt, Currently eyeing up another corsa 
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Twiggy
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quote:
- Rear screen wash doesn't spray the screen (No idea where the water actually goes )
On my Pug 307 you press for the rear washer and there is a noise and the fronts go on
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alan-g-w
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A mate had a 1.8tdi and it brought him nothing but trouble.
But the biggest pain is the fact that on the 1st day of owning it, some scrotum in Tesco's carpark decided to scrape down the rear quarter denting it all. £3000 to fix , or insurance write off were his only options. Ended up just leaving it as was.
[Edited on 06-04-2009 by alan-g-w]
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Col004
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Fix Or Repair Daily
Wouldn't bother unless it was Cosworth TBH
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Planty02
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Too true Col 
so heres the plan...
Fix > Sell > Corsa > XE > 
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Col004
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^^^^ Agreed matey
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Ben G
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i could've tod you you'd have problems tbh
although my fiesta was fine, nothing at all went wrong on it 
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Fad
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Originally posted by Eck
That's what happens when you buy a Lemon
I agree nothing to do with the Marque
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Matt L
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wwhat about the turbo??
ps hi
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crazybrightman
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the old focus is about the best car ford ever built, the new one im not sure about never had any dealings with them.
all the things you have listed are wear and tear parts apart from the alternator and air pipe but that could just be bad luck.
the spring isnt suprising i see so many broken springs these days with the crappy roads and all the speed bumps!
the leaky windscreen is more than ikely some retard who didnt fit the pollen filter cover back on right thats very, very common.
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Jay
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Originally posted by Ben G
i could've tod you you'd have problems tbh
My 53 plate Mondeo TDCi never missed a beat in the year I had it, done roughly 500 miles a week in it for about 5 months then it went to 500 miles a month. Never had a single problem with it. Swapped it for a Clio 172 and the timing chain slipped a week later, had the fella rantring and raving to me on the phone but it wasnt my fault!
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Planty02
Too true Col
so heres the plan...
Fix > Sell > Corsa > XE >
sick of car problems but you're going to get a 20XE corsa b? 
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Planty02
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Turbo's fine Matt The Cool noise was the broken pipe sadly
wear and tear/common faults or not...its still costing me £££
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Planty02
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quote:
Originally posted by willay
quote:
Originally posted by Planty02
Too true Col
so heres the plan...
Fix > Sell > Corsa > XE >
sick of car problems but you're going to get a 20XE corsa b?
Its more a case of being sick of shelling out ridiculous amounts of cash on it will...I could buy a decent XE for what a clutch/flywheel is costing me
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Sam
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LOL @ people jumping on the Ford are shit bandwagon
Ford (like Vauxhall) is a mass produced car manufacturer.
Mass produced cars = will never be problem-free!
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BluKoo
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quote:
Originally posted by Fad
quote:
Originally posted by Eck
That's what happens when you buy a Lemon
I agree nothing to do with the Marque
Exactly. We've had plenty of Fords in the family, and they've all been great cars.
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mwg
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quote:
Originally posted by Planty02
Lesson Learnt, Currently eyeing up another corsa
lesson learnt and eyeing up another Corsa in the same sentence 
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Planty02
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Originally posted by Matty G
lesson learnt and eyeing up another Corsa in the same sentence
Fair point but when I had my old B I never had the money to do what I wanted to it, so this is my second chance
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Graham88
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500 miles a week in my 1.4 Zetec MK6 Fiesta, never missed a beat except for the cambelt stripping it's teeth, but that was my fault for not changing it
And now my Zetec S, only had it 2 months granted but not let me down once.
Win some and you lose some!
[Edited on 06-04-2009 by Graham88]
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Adam_B
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Originally posted by Graham88
never missed a beat except for the cambelt stripping it's teeth, but that was my fault for not changing it
Thought the whole thing with that was that it let go before the service interval? or was that someone else
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Graham88
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Well in the manual I had it said 100k or 10 years, but Ford told me it was 70k or 5 years when I ranted down the phone, so fuck knows
Let go at 92k, which tbh I should probably have changed, was still bloody annoying
[Edited on 06-04-2009 by Graham88]
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Eck
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Omg how could such a simple baiting comment get such a reaction
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Planty02
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Thread title edited for all the ford bummers 
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