JonS Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Greetings to all, Have just joined the forum which I hope will help me keep my Focus on the road and reliable. You never know, I may be able to help someone else as well! Our 2008 1.6 petrol Focus is driven mainly by 'er indoors, but I do enjoy driving it myself and consider it to be a great little car. Unfortunately, despite still having only 19k on the clock, it has proved somewhat problematic. First problem was the heater matrix failed and apart from a full fascia out job to replace it, I was left with the problem of removing 4 litres of coolant from the inside of the car in the middle of winter. This was a horrible job to do, but was over a year ago now and it hasn't leaked since. Next was a clutch fluid leak from the master cylinder - probably caused by disconnecting it to do the job above. This needed a new pipe from Ford. After cleaning up the spilt fluid, which had soaked into the sound proofing under the bonnet I thought the job was complete. Unfortunately, the local rodents - presumably attracted by the fruity smell of the washing up liquid that I used, climbed up and ate all the sound proofing! That wouldn't have been so bad, but they started nibbling through the wiring loom as well. I got 3 of them as revenge though. Next to go was the top engine mounting, which I discovered was oil filled when it started leaking. A second hand replacement from eBay has sorted that for the moment. So, while a great car to drive, this has been the most unreliable modern car I've had for a long while. I just hope it will now settle down and give us some reliable service. I've always tried to maintain my own cars and other vehicles at home at the moment are a 2000 Jaguar S-Type, 2009 Nissan Xtrail and a 1986 BMW K100RS motorbike, which only comes out on very hot days. I look forward to contributing to the forum. JonS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanGersFord Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Hi and welcome to the club. Please take the time to have a quick glance over the forum rule and refrain from posting offensive language even *'d out the way that you posted it. Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preee Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Hi and Welcome to the Forums , nothing worse when you fix something and then get a problem after you have fixed it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TDCiST Posted March 15, 2013 Share Posted March 15, 2013 Hello, Welcome to the Forum! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoney871 Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 Welcome to the Forum John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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