Desperately need help! 
my diesel Focus titanium push start has completely given up on me. I went on a short trip to town, no probs, I got back to the car, and after starting fine I quickly got a ‘steering malfunction’ warning, so thought I’d drive it to my regular garage on route home. Turned it off outside the garage, not realising they’d gone home and it would not start again, it’s totally immobilised and will not start! It’s been there a week now to no avail, they haven’t a clue. I’ve had the instrument cluster checked and been told it’s fine, the remote key is fine, I can lock/unlock, lights flash etc.

can anyone point me in the right direction?

I’m chief carer for my dying father so need the car desperately for hospital and doctor as we live in a rural location. I also can’t afford for a Ford dealer to charge me the earth to diagnose or fix, particularly a month before Xmas.

thanks in advance for reading and any pointers to my problem 

And when I say immobilised I mean nothing happens, hold the clutch, push the start, nothing. I get the same ‘steering malfunction’ warning on the instrument panel above the steering wheel (cluster) and I’m not entirely sure that the red dot light flashes or not, as I haven’t paid it any attention

I’m reading everything I possibly can to relay it back to my mechanic 

Diagnostic trouble codes (dtcs) read through the obd socket may be a good place to begin.  A good mechanic can read them using Forscan or the Ford system (expensive ).

”U” codes can be generated by can bus failures so he shouldn’t go changing modules without understanding what is happening.

18 minutes ago, RL123 said:

Diagnostic trouble codes (dtcs) read through the obd socket may be a good place to begin.  A good mechanic can read them using Forscan or the Ford system (expensive ).

”U” codes can be generated by can bus failures so he shouldn’t go changing modules without understanding what is happening.

Thanks for replying, I forgot to say because we can’t turn it on, the computer doesn’t read anything, or so I’m told, highly frustrating 

You need an Auto Electrician not a mechanic. If your garage doesn't know a good one then ask on the local media forums.

Does the car have "passive" (keyless) entry? (buttons on the door handles and boot to open without remote)?

Does the remote key functions still work?

My father-in-law had issues with the remote entry on his 2011 MK2.5 Titanium, which also caused the steering to lock him out.

It turned out the be the stand alone RKE module in the LH rear 1/4 trim had corroded with condensation.

Try that

12 hours ago, Supermiss said:

Thanks for replying, I forgot to say because we can’t turn it on, the computer doesn’t read anything, or so I’m told, highly frustrating 

The ignition must be coming on if you're getting a steering fault.  That is enough for OBD fault codes to be read.  The engine doesn't need to be running.

Tbh it sounds like a flat battery...but I really hope the garage would have checked that before anything else.