Hi guys

I've been browsing here for a few weeks as I was planning to get a focus, and today I finally bought a 2008 facelift, and it's great! Drives and handles beautifully and as someone who hasn't been on the road in four years, it took me all of 10 minutes to get the hang of this car (considering both my previous cars from last decade were superminis).

However, after the 40 mile journey home using my phone as a Satnav, I had to buy a car charger from Halfords for my dying phone, only to realise that neither of the two 12V sockets were working. Everything else is working perfectly, but both sockets are dead. I confirmed the charger works because I tried it out in my friend's car and it was fine.

Anybody know why this might be happening? I thought it might be a fuse but I read somewhere that the stereo is powered by the same fuse (although that was for a MK2), so I decided to seek advice from all you experts out here.

Thanks!

Check my link under this post for a full fuse layout on a MK2.5 Focus.

What Stoney said.

I had the same problem in my 09 facelift when the end of my lead fell off and shorted the power point and the fuse had blown. This fuse covers the power points, not the audio.

Biggest bit was dropping the fuse box down from under the glove box, two clips and it lowers down for access. Luckily I had a spare fuse in there to replace the blown one.

Thanks for the replies guys. It was indeed the fuse. Managed to get it out with needle nose pliers and swapped it out, now the sockets are working fine! That fuse box is definitely awkward to get to though!

It is fiddly for sure.