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When I brought my car in for this issue back in 2002, they had not heard of this before. The first time they re-aligned the tranny. Apparently there are these pins that align the tranny and when they go out of whack they contribute to the "gear roll over noise" The second time I had it in, they kept the car for 2 days to do some "tests" they actually told me they were learning from my car as they were beginning to see this issue more and more as time went on and they wanted to figure out EXACTLY what it is. I went to see the car and they were taking pictures of the tranny etc... Not to mention 3 guys working on the car.

2 days later I got my 2nd tranny and they said the noise is harmless. Apparently, the Focus has a noisey transmission was their diagnosis.