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Is Your Focus A Problem Car?
#21
My car's been great so far. :)
'14 Escape 2.0t
2012 5dr Ti : Traded
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#22
My car has been completely fine. It goes for its 20,000 km check up on Monday and there should be no problems with it :)
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#23
Umm..

I'm a little sour right now..but my 05' has had a handful of small things, 1 big thing, and unavoidable s*** after an accident..

-main thing, just a few days ago the tranny blew up on the car at only 24,731km. It was under warranty but still!

-the foglights work sometimes, sometimes not...might be a loose wire? who knows!

-I cant seem to get more then 420km on a tank anymore..no matter if its hwy driving and not being insane on the gas!

-the roof mounted console came loose after about 2 weeks of owning the car...I installed new screws and it's been fine since!

-the newest problem is the leaky hatch! somehow water gets in from the top of the hatch, maybe from the brake light or around the taillights..but every time it rains, I usually gotta vaccuum out an inch of water from the spare tire well!

-my power locks work sometimes, other times i gotta press the button...the fob works but only after 4,5,6 clicks...

..umm there are a few other creaks and groans...but they could be from wear and tear, and lowered suspension so I wont blame ford for everything!
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#24
Bought the car at 44,000....ran like a gem for a long time. Started adding bolt-ons, still ran like a gem. Added suspension and rims, handles and corners like there's no tommorow. Only had to replace the front rotors once at about 80,000 km's, and get the A/C serviced and recharged at about 60,000. Other than the electrical gremlins (turned out to be a bad battery that wouldn't fail load tests at CT but would at another shop....go figure), the car is now at 124,000 and been problem free for a long time.

I would love to get another one as a daily driver, and I highly reccomend these cars to everyone who asks me about them. Is the best car I've owned yet.
Bleeding Ford Blue again...
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#25
I have nothing but good things to say about my Focus, EXCEPT...
When doing the Suspension the Rear Left Lower swing arm bolt was a BIAAATCH.

Love the car, Just wish I could get good Power outputs from Bolt ons like my Civic.

Love the Style, Handling.



Most Of all Good Forums, Didnt like the Civic Forums, Too many retards.
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#26
the SVT has been pretty good, but lately it was having a fuel problem. replaced the fuel pump and filter and its been good since other than that its fine.
'03 Focus SVT
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#27
At 148,000km it has been great.

Problems had a couple recalls done other than that it gives me 700km per tank in the summer :P :P :D
2001 SE Sedan
gas mileage King of FocusCanada!

760.8km on 45L
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#28
I'll just add that despite the fact that it is OK now finally and I voted "it's been good to me"; that is not enough to make me change my mind. I will not buy another Ford, the first few years were truly that bad.
2001 Focus ZTS 2004 WRX
"I'm just here for the camping"
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#29
I had a few problems with my ZX3 but nothing that couldn't be solved by going to a dealer and getting it solved promply and some goodwill towards the customer but I never got that feeling that they wanted me back as a customer. I would love to own a ZX5 or a Mustang GT as I really like the styling on the new ones but the memories of the bad service continue to haunt me.

Laterz :)
1972 Austin Mini | 1989 Mini30 | 2002 Hyundai Santa Fe GLS
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#30
^^Bad dealers make me a sad panda. I really do feel for you guys that seem to have a glut of asshole dealers in and around the GTA.

Except for one incident last January, and that was person-related not car-related, we've never had an issue with our dealer. Even when they merged 2 dealers into one to appease FoMoCoCan... never a glitch, hiccup or missed service appointment.
Daily driver 1: 2007 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport "S"

33" BFG Mud-Terrain KM2s, lots of Rough Country gear - bumper, 2.5" lift, swaybar disconnects, Superwinch 10,000lb winch, Detroit Locker in rear D44 axle, custom exhaust, K+N filtercharger, Superchips-tuned.

Daily driver 2: 2006 Subaru Legacy GT

COBB Stage 1+ package - AccessPort tuner, COBB intake and airbox. Stage 2 coming shortly - COBB 3" AT stainless DP and race cat, custom 3" Magnaflow-based exhaust and Stage 2 COBB tune.
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#31
PUSHING 72KMS... still no probs... had a fews under warranty... incl. brakes... but those were most likely my fault
2005 ZX4 SOLD! ST; 1992 Mustang 5.0L S/C

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#32
2000 focus zx3....no problems stock......but with svt swap+mods...always little problems here and there....now its going back to stock(sort of).
SVT Motor Swap into 2000 zx3 with 5spd.
14.9 @ 93MPH
"I am going to run 5's .... I am planning on installing a rocket engine!"
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#33
Crazirich,Jul 7 2006, 11:51 AM Wrote:PUSHING 72KMS...  still no probs... had a fews under warranty... incl. brakes... but those were most likely my fault
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I'm sure you mean 72,000 km's right?
'14 Escape 2.0t
2012 5dr Ti : Traded
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#34
euro_zx5,Jul 8 2006, 07:54 AM Wrote:
Crazirich,Jul 7 2006, 11:51 AM Wrote:PUSHING 72KMS...  still no probs... had a fews under warranty... incl. brakes... but those were most likely my fault
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I'm sure you mean 72,000 km's right?
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unfortunatly i do.... I put 5000kms on in less than 2 weeks when we went to florida for the last week of june
2005 ZX4 SOLD! ST; 1992 Mustang 5.0L S/C

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#35
Crazirich,Jul 8 2006, 10:20 AM Wrote:unfortunatly i do....  I put 5000kms on in less than 2 weeks when we went to florida for the last week of june
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You wouldnt believe how quickly I put KMs on my 06... Got it Dec 05/2005 with 177km on it. Just had it in today for another maintenance at 28512km. *sigh* I blow through 5000km in 2-3 weeks on average.

Moving to TO from London should help with that though... not so much commuting anymore.
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