Focus been off the road for a week as the water pump finally gave up, mobile mechanic outside as  type replacing it along with belt etc also going to track down my boost leak, looking forward to being back behind the Focus wheel later toady :)

 

good luck

All back up and working again :) Really pleased, knew the water pump was not long for giving up, pleased is an understatement :)

Boost leak we think is fixes, we found some oil residue on a junction between a rubber and plastic pipe held together with a jubilee clip so assume it was coming from there, all been cleaned up new clip on and tightened down, leak noise gone now but sure I heard a little squeal still on test drive, time will tell on that one.

I do have some slight DMF noise however which I had already diagnosed myself, annoying as it is an ex police car that has had a clutch within the last 20k so why they did not do the DMF at the same time is a mystery, probably the same reason they did not do the water pump whilst doing the major B service...................

MOT now 1st week of October, mechanic gave it a pre-mot today, worn bush in one of the bottom arms so will pick up a new complete arm save faffing with presses and bush drivers apart from that should be good to go, today is a good day :)

 

5 hours ago, ChrisPembs said:

All back up and working again :) Really pleased, knew the water pump was not long for giving up, pleased is an understatement :)

Boost leak we think is fixes, we found some oil residue on a junction between a rubber and plastic pipe held together with a jubilee clip so assume it was coming from there, all been cleaned up new clip on and tightened down, leak noise gone now but sure I heard a little squeal still on test drive, time will tell on that one.

I do have some slight DMF noise however which I had already diagnosed myself, annoying as it is an ex police car that has had a clutch within the last 20k so why they did not do the DMF at the same time is a mystery, probably the same reason they did not do the water pump whilst doing the major B service...................

MOT now 1st week of October, mechanic gave it a pre-mot today, worn bush in one of the bottom arms so will pick up a new complete arm save faffing with presses and bush drivers apart from that should be good to go, today is a good day :)

 

chris did you have any sort of signs the water pump was ready to go or did it just give up?

3 minutes ago, sonic113 said:

chris did you have any sort of signs the water pump was ready to go or did it just give up?

It was diagnosed before I bought the car, I did notice the pulley appeared to be loose and the inner square bit did turn out to be loose, there was some pulley noise that was noticeable.