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I thought that too. My old 2005 mk 2 had the reservior attached to the bracket which is still there on my 2008 mk 2. dismantling the car is a bit daft just too top up the brake fluid :?

I fitted my AUX cable and socket today which took me about half an hour and was very easy. In fact the hardest part of the job was trying to find a 20mm hole saw to fit the socket! I ended up using a 20mm spade drill bit, but it's still a nice tidy job. The glove box door still closes with the wire plugged so you don't have to drive around with things flying out of your glove box. Today I also aquired an unused Sony MP3 stereo from Ebay for a real bargain price of £77 including postage. So the stereo surround will be coming off again but now i know what to do it should only take a couple of

Sorry if this sounds obvious but you dont have a stone or a nail stuck in one of your tyres do you. Alot of the roads near me have been resurfaced lately and i'm having to de-stone my tyres daily. And count the stone chips :(

I've stumbled across a short film on youtube showing you how to remove the new style stereo from the dash, how to check if you have the aux wire already fitted and how to fit the socket in the glove box. I now feel a little more confident about doing it myself. On youtube type in SIO COMMUNICATIONS TUTORIAL PART 1 The guy makes it look very simple.

Hi all. I've ordered the parts to add the aux socket. My car is only five months old so apart from changing the all the front headlamp and fog lamp bulbs, this will be the first time i take a screw driver to the car. Eeek! I'm a little concerned about removing the stereo surround because i dont wanna break it as i prize it off. Has anyone else removed theirs, and is it hard to remove? Also I fancy fitting the aux socket in one of the two blank switches next to the heated screen buttons. Has anyone done this? :D

Hi all. I'm looking into swapping the spoiler on my 08 mk2 for the colour coded one, and was wondering if the spoiler can be bought pre coloured? The reason i ask is because when a pensioner reversed into my old focus and damaged the back bumper, the new one arrived at the garage pre coloured. And it was a better colour match than the old one! Any ideas about prices? I also like the look of the mk2.5 spoiler which covers the top of the rear lights. Thanks in advance for any response. :)

Water in the spark plugs was one of the excuses i got on my many visits to the garage. If the hoses for your washer jets are loose it can make water gather around the spark plugs but i reckon you'd be able to see it.

Hello Matt. I had a very similar problem with my old 05 1.6 mk2. Whenever i took the car in to the garage it wouldn't show any fault codes, so the garage couldn't or wouldn't replace any parts. So I took it to another Ford dealer who got somebody from ford technical to look at it, and he advised replacing the throttle body and associated wiring harness. It did the trick and the car ran better than it ever had. Ask your garage if they don't come up with anything about contacting Ford technical and see if they know about it. I hope this is a help.

The double locking stopped working on my old mk 2. but I traded it in so i never got it looked at. My car was out of warranty so it probably would've been expensive too.

Hi, I've been thinking about having just the eyebrow done on my Colorado Red mk2, because the side strips and boot trim came already colour coded. I was wondering If they can be ordered ready coloured because my old mk 2 needed a new bumper after someone hit me and that came ready coloured. Wouldn't mind the spoiler to go with it as well.

nice one mate, good luck, ph me let us know how u get one :D Eek! I can remember that day well. I got mirrors and emergency stop, and progress hesitancy and normal position. I was pooing my pants and scraped through with a 4/4 which I wasn't very happy with. But two years after that I got a 5 on my check test and haven't heard anything from the DSA since, so Imust be doing something right :) Good luck to you both and if you want any free advice get in touch.

Teaching someone to drive in a petrol car means they will be better prepared to drive either diesel or petrol cars. in the seven years i've been a driving instructor I have had several pupils who've come to me after having lessons in a diesel and all they did for the first couple of lessons was stall my car over and over again until they were taught how to control a car properly. Some of them had been taught to manoeuvre using the brake and clutch at the same time which a petrol car will not respond very well to. My 1.6 petrol focus is very popular with my pupils. They find it easy to drive, v

The alternator drive belt could be slipping slightly.

Same thing happened to me when the clutch went in my old 05 focus as far is the way the pedal just went loose with no warning and I had to have the AA tow me to the garage. But I don't recall any fluid loss. The brakes and clutch do share the same fluid though. And if you've only done 11,000 miles the clutch must have a fault which has caused it to wear quickly. I'd done nearly 40,000 miles in my car so no chance of a warranty claim there. £615 quid to have the clutch replaced! most of that being the labour charges which is why I don't use my local dealer for anything I have to pay for now.

My friend got a letter yesterday for her 08 1.6 zetec climate. I bought my car on the same day and picked mine up the day before but i''ve had no letter yet. I may nip in the dealer tomorrow and ask about mine.

Hi, I had my power steering fail twice on my previous Focus, due to loss of fluid. The dealer said it was failure of one of the joints between rubber hose and metal pipe. They put mine down to me being a driving instructor and my car doing much more full lock steering than the average car. A friend of mine who is a driving instructor also had her power steering fail without warning. So When I bought my new one I arranged with the garage to have the power steering system checked every three months for signs of wear and leaks.

When I recently got my new car I was told the cherished transfere process had changed and it was three weeks before I got mine changed. My number went on retention which cost the dealer £124. this car is the sixth i've put the number on and I've never had this before.

I had this problem on my 05 plate mk2 not long after i got it. the dealer knew all about the fault and was sorted very quickly.

Well all I can go on is what I was told at the dealers. My car is a three door so the rear speaker and an arm rest come lidded pocket is intergrated into the trim panel, which extends from the door to behind the back seat. That part was removed to get to the rattle, but the seat also has to be removed to get to the fixing points. The offending clip was behind there and it holds the speaker wire and maybe wiring for the rear airbags. I went on a road test yesterday morning with the guy doing the job and he said straight away he thought the rattle was behind that panel. But they also went out ag

Hi all, Well i took my car in yesterday to be looked at, and i've got to say I was not very hopeful. I don't rate my local dealer, and the buying process has been full of hickups but I didn't have time to take it further afield. But they've fixed it! :D The aircon was just a loose wire conection so that was easy once they'd traced the fault. And the rattle was a loose wiring harness clip behind the rear trim panel which required a lot more investigation, and once found the whole rear interior needed dismantling to get to it. And everything seems to've gone back together properly with no mu

I used to have a Fiat Stilo which had a chilled glove box. It was really handy in the summer, and would chill a bottle of water in about twenty minutes. but the car had two glove boxes, the chilled one being fairly small so you didn't get chilled cd's. I don't think i'd use it if my zetec climate if it had the option because everything would be cold and I reckon it'd take ages to chill anything in there.

Tried that already.

I'm gonna try the tape on the boot catch but the sound doesn't seem to be coming from there. Mines definately not a plasticy rattle, it's metallic like a stray clip or something is just rattling about against another piece of metal, maybe the car body. and it's worse when there is more weight in the back. I will post any results. I'm still loving me new car though. :D

Believe it or not, my old Focus had done 67,000 miles when I swapped it and it only had one set of pads in all that time. At the last service they told me it would need new discs and pads by the next service. I was very impressed, my previous Fiat Stilo used to get through discs and pads like they were going out of fashion! I also think my Focii have both been excellent in the stopping department.

I don't think it's the tie rods cuz the sound is coming from the back, and i had that problem on my old Focus and it sounds different. I talked my mum into driving the car while I sat in the back tonight. It sounds like something really tinny just rattling around loose. I couldn't make my mind up whether it's something under the car or a suspension component, or something behind the trim panel in the back where the speaker is. i'm gonna get the techy to sit in the back while i drive the car and they can listen. I hope the aircon is a simple job cuz it'll need taking back again to have any part