Hi, Guest
11-23-2005, 12:53 AM
NOS2Go4Me,Nov 22 2005, 10:19 AM Wrote:So the 04 ZTW has a built-in bagel warmer when the rear duct delete was done? I fail to see how this is an issue? :huh:Not just the ZTW - all 2004 model Focus. From 2000 through 2003, all Focus had them standard ... as they do in 2005/06. Just deleted the one year.
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In any event, it may not be an issue for you; for me, it was the following:
1) No heat to the rear seat - I have children that sit back there.
2) The plenum opening was left unblocked which means that at the "floor" setting air is directed under the console and not into the cabin. Ask yourself this: if the outside of the console is almost too hot to touch, how hot is it on the inside of the console? So you tell me ... what is the affect of all that heat under the console on such things as the carpet, traction control switch, seat heater switch, gear linkage, the console itself, etc? If your answer is "I don't know" -- that's the answer I got from Ford.
3) A matter of principle ... if all of FOC's marketing materials, brochures, website and dealer order guides say that a rear seat heat duct is standard, it bloody well should be there; and if it isn't, they should suck it up and make it right without a fuss.
The outcome? FOC refused to install the ducts claiming it would be a "modification" that would void the warranty!! So I had my dealer install them and I paid for it myself - just $105. As a matter of fact, Ford didn't have any in stock in NA, and they had to get one from the wreckers.
After months of applying logic and appealing to their sense of fairness to no avail, I started a CAMVAP claim, which Ford fought vigorously.
One week before we were to be in court (so to speak), I got a call from a technical guy at Ford saying that a cheque was in the mail. The sweet thing is they paid the whole invoice which also included an oil change, a total of $155.
In the meantime I had cancelled my order for an '05 ST and decided that the '04 was my last Ford. Idiots.
2008 Fusion SEL MTX - DD1 * 2009 Fusion SEL - DD2 * 2007 Focus ZXW - R*I*P * 2004 Focus ZTW CD Silver - sold * 2004 Focus ZTW Black - sold * 2003 Focus ZTW Black - sold * 2001 Focus ZTW Gold - sold * 2000 Focus SE Wagon (ZTW option) - Black - sold * 2000 Focus SE Wagon (ZTW option) - Gold R*I*P
2003 Focus ZX5 infra-red Track Rat - R*I*P
2003 ZX5 CD Silver Track Rat - retired, but still in the driveway
New track rat: 2000 ZX3, Atlantic Blue * JRSC with lots more to come
* New Zetec crate motor - NFG - thanks Topspeed *
2003 Focus ZX5 infra-red Track Rat - R*I*P
2003 ZX5 CD Silver Track Rat - retired, but still in the driveway
New track rat: 2000 ZX3, Atlantic Blue * JRSC with lots more to come
* New Zetec crate motor - NFG - thanks Topspeed *