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Will have another look but when we got it @18 months ago couldn't find an instant readout. Remember a thread at the time on here saying MK1s did but MK2s didn't. 6 years ago I got a Clio DCI that listed it on the spec sheet but didn't actually do it. I'm doomed never to have an instant MPG readout :evil:

Sorry if this is a stoopid question.... On a MK2 1.6 TDCI can you chose between instant readout and average? Or are you just re-setting the average reading which then bounces around until it settles down? My understanding was that on MK2s it was average only?

Girl at work had her Fester sump plug fall out day after a Ford main dealer service.......

Yea May 08...., years after the Japs and Koreans and even miles behind VW and the French who must have thought they'd missed the boat. Agree 4x4 not a good idea but the companys are just satisfying customer demand. Also like Nissan et al they would rather sell you a £17,000-£22,000 4x4 than a £10,000-£15,000 hatch that cost them about the same to produce (+£500-£750 for the extra drive shafts??)

RTV, what are the symptoms of the cracked black intercooler pipe? Assuming its the same on a Focus hatch 1.6? Was topping up the washer fluid this aft and had a look at the pipe and it does indeed have oil film deposites around the welded bracket. Ecomomy is OK-ish at @45mpg but would have hoped for @50+ with the super hi-tech 16v turbo motor. My old WW11 technology VW Caddy pickup could do 55 and mates 2.0 HDI Picasso did 50mpg. It also sometimes, esp at low engine speeds, feels like its got 10bhp not 110 ! Other than that its AOK

Twice I've experience Diesel split on a wet road, scary stuff. The 1st was on a sharpish bend and I thought one of the wheels had come loose! I think one side was gripping and one spinning. I actually stopped further up the road to get out and check the wheels/tyres and then the next car round also pulled in to look at his wheels! The 2nd time was on a roundabout outside a petrol station, skidded all over the place and then just up the road from that had to stop at some traffic tights on a slight hill, no matter how gently I tried to set off the wheel spun boy racer styleee. Brother live nea

I can see Fords logic behind refreshing the range, getting the car in all the mags again and perhaps getting existing owners to 'up-grade' but it doesn't half buggger up residuals for everyone and makes Ford look worse value for money. The Focus is good enough to stand on its own two feet without cosmetic changes that have no useful benefit what so ever. Presumably 3 years ago when the MK2 came out it was as good as they could make it? Now 3 years later they've replaced every panel on the car? Can't have been that clever in the 1st place then? All the independent user surveys say the F

We live about 5 mins drive from Polar Barnsley. Wanted to buy from them but they tried selling us a LX TDCI for more than we ended paying for the Ghia TDCI. Then I wanted a Fester Zetec S TDCI to replace a Clio. They wanted more for a 2nd hand one that looked like a mobile ashtray (salesmans daily driver) than I paid for a spanker from Benfields Harrogate. Within 12 months they'd turned their nose up at £30,000 list price sales + follow on servicing. Beats me how they remain in business.

Would have thought in UK it would be 3 years, until then 99.9% of work done by dealers due to warranty. Even after that those that DIY are in diminishing minority, and even that shrinking group prob wouldn't know where to start on a recent car. Change the oil, I can't even see the filter :roll:

Fords Diesel strategy is in a mess. They were caught with their pants down in europe and have had to buy in expertise or even complete engines to meet demand. This leads to discussions like this! The poor parts department and servcie guys have to know about their own 1.6/1.8 IDI + turbo'd versions, 1.8 TDDi, 1.8 TDCi, VW TDI in Galaxys, Peugoet 1.4, 1.6 and 2.0s and soon(?) Fiat 1.3s in the new KA replacement + god knows what in trannies. pickups and 4x4s from mazda and nissan?

They still make the 'old' shape clios. Presumabably because the new ones are too big and expensive to be sold as small hatches, and to hold the fort until the Twingo arrives. I considered one but the price wasn't tempting enough so got a Fester.

On my new fester I've brimed and calculated the MPG twice and it was within 1mpg both times of the trip computer. Came out at 53mpg and then 51.something. Missus Focus is 45mpg and was pretty accurate when I checked by DIYing it. I'm hoping the fester MPG will increase when its run-in a bit more.

The focus dash is OK, but on my new fester on the drivers side you can fit your finger in the gap but on the pass side the gap is very small. Apprently my fester is german also? They must still be sore about the 5-1 footy match and build RHDs accordingly.

I kept the old one from my clio (must be a french car thing having cargo nets) planning on using it in my new Fester..... no joy, its not even got any tie down points let alone a free cargo net supplied as standard:( . So the net's now in the other halfs focus. The more I live with the Fester the more I keep finding penny pinching omissions. :cry:

1.6 TDCi Ghia 06, 17,500 miles 1 year and 'computer says' exactly 45mpg. This is mainly rush hour motorway and Leeds city centre so pretty good but would have liked to see nearer 50 :( . Its got the standard Ford bumpers painted a different colour syndome but apart from leak in boot fixed under warranty, washer bottle emptying itself and being charged nearly £70 for a gallon of oil for the service its been 100%. Fingers crossed, touch wood. :wink:

Update on ours; it went into Ford to be fixed. They pulled the gutter trim off and had to order a another one as removing it destroys it? Anyhow whilst it was at home that night I had a look and the joint under the plastic trim appeared to be perfectly sealed. When it came back the next day with the new trim fitted they had smeared silicon sealent around the hinge 'holes' and also the joint inside the car behind the trim, where you could see the trails from where the water had entered. The guy said they had had a few in like that and Ford won't fix it after the 1 year trim warrenty runs

And now Landrovers are made in a Ford factory you can pay £30,000+ and have totally mis-coloured bumpers..... http://www.askaprice.com/images/gallery ... ur=02b.jpg

Cars depreciate most at the start of their lives. The 1st couple of years its an almost vertical curve downwards esp compared to list price. The trick is to get a massive discount when new or run it for years and years and get your moneys worth :?:

Ours had the leak into the boot via the known tailgate hinge/roof gutter problem. The dealer who fixed it commented that it was a good job we spotted before the 1st year was up, as thats when the warranty for such things runs out. I think most manufacturers are the same, Renault woudn't fix the gear stick gaiter that had come adrift in my Clio because it was nearly 3 years old. They had invited me in to have it MOT'd and any problems found fixed under warranty, except of course all those things that aren't covered by the three year warranty.....like the interior. Glued it back on myself but

I got hold of the new part. 1450990 Filler, cheers Tezza. Its a new neck and cap. The part is identical to the original except the inside of the cap has a foam disc that acts as an air tight seal. I think you could simply swap the caps but I swapped the entire neck by removing the back trim and 10mm bolt, withdraw the orginal and poke new one thru hole in the wing to presumably seal against the washer bottle hole. How chuffin complex does a washer bottle have be? multiple parts, muliple chambers, seals, vents that doen't work etc etc rant rant rant. For such a good car the MK2 suffers from

We had the car in for its 1st service just before Christmas at one of the main dealers in Leeds. 1.6 TDCi and it cost £150 which seems to be the going rate for a main dealer service form cars I've had done in the past. What did surprise me was the £56.99+VAT (67 quid :shock: ) for the oil. I could buy a barrel full from an arab for less. It was listed as Mobil Ultra. Mobil do their fully synth '1' oil which is expensive and the only Ultra I could find was made by BP. I though Ford used their own "one size fits all" oil anyway? There was then an additional charge for 1 litre of top up oil (Ca

I suffer from this and I wondered what the chuff the Mrs was doing to use so much of the stuff! Do you have a magic number I can quote to Ford to get one of these caps??

Saint Gobain all round. Car from Saarlouis.

Ours has it! Horizontally about half way down screen. Think the steep angle makes any imperfections worse. Wifeys car and she doesn't notice it but I'd have taken it in and tried to get it replaced.

Our Ghia 1.6 110 TDCi has settled down to 49/50mpg after @2,500 miles. Approx 75% motorway rest town work. Ghia only has front 'luxury' mats so got a set of cheapest from Ford for rear ones, @£17+vat for set of 4. Stereo and A/C seem OK, not had chance to try (front?) heated screen yet.