ChrisTDCICMAX

CJSnet - I think the older foci have a mechanical/electric solution. On the CMax and new Foci it would appear so. The older Foci I believe are a more mechanical solution hence your dealers struggle. Does your car have a "Fly by wire" throttle? If its a normal cable then i'm guessing its going to be a lot harder than the new Foci's :( The dealer that did mine probably would be of little help as I had to give them the instructions gleened off here and the TIS CD to persuade them to get serious about it. SOrry I can't be of more help. Craig - Hello m8 :) Glad you approve of the new avatar :l

Hehe, you got me worried now. I've just done one light coat with an acrylic touch up spray. Colour looks good and very close to the bumper material. One thing i'm wondering is how durable a coat of this Acrylic paint will be? Is there any chance that in a years time half of it will have flaked off? If this is the case can you recommend anything to help protect it like a lacquer perhaps?

Thanks for the replies guys :) I had a look at the fitting instructions and it says I can pop a couple of thin coats on the sensors no problem. Do you reckon it would be beneficial to pop a coat of lacquer on them to save the paint from coming off over time? I'm just wondering if you can get a satin finish lacquer that would help them blend in better with the bumper? Piccy of disney_cjd's bumber:- I noticed that the Ghia variant of the CMax has colour coded lower bumper. On the Zetec the lower half of the bumper as seen on the photo above is not the same colour as the car but is made

I've been ripping out the interior of my maxi's back end today and its all going swimingly installing my aftermarket parking sensors but there's one thing that i'm struggling to get sorted satisfactorily - making the sensors look the same colour as the grey bumper material :( I noticed on disney_cjd's piccy he posted a while back the factory fitted ones blend in real nice. Mine are jet black and stand out like a saw thumb - not good. Does anyone know what I will need to get the match? I had a looksee today in my local auto shop and they only had spray on primer but it looked too light a shade

Took some doing, I know. But I can be lazy sometimes :lol: Do you know if there are any other goodies on the CD for us Maxi owners? PCM updates to make our Maxi's more perky and less thirsty? Hehe, I know the Maxi's pretty good already but you can never have too much of a good thing :lol:

How do we go about getting hold of one of these?

Hi Steve, Thanks for the info on the WDS CD. Next time I go by i'll pass this info on to the dealer. Thanks also for all the info you passed on earlier in my quest :) Certainly helped persuade my dealer to try and do the job for me rather than fob me off. I can see quite a few Maxi owners badgering their dealers for this now :lol: Cheers, Chris

Hi Guys, Been doing some motoring over the past few weeks to Scotland and have noticed some weird behaviour with my Maxi. Its not bad news before you guys take note of my past record ;) :lol: I've been filling up at this little BP service station in Aviemore (First Derv Pump on left hand side front when entered from village). Every time I fill up here from this pump my car behaves like its on steroids. The performance is fenominal compared to my local derv which is very laclustre in comparison :( Do any of you guys know what may be causing this? I was wondering if it may be a small amount of

Hi tommytruck, The work entailed 1 hours investigative work prior to work being done. 1x Steering Wheel. 1x Switch. 2 Hours to fit and test and mess about with software. All together came to £350. The only problem that could occur is whether your motor has the higher spec "Primary Junction Box". If the dealer finds yours has not then I reckon you will be looking at silly money. Fingers crossed :) Hope this helps. I only went for it as i've started doing a lot of motorway driving and got fed up of clock watching all the time. Now I can just sit back and steer :lol: If your not going to

Hi Guys, Just to update on my quest for Cruise Control to be retrofitted to my Zetec Maxi. I took it in this morning and after a couple of hours got the car back with Cruise Control fitted and working. The work entailed fitting a new Steering Wheel with the CC buttions and they also had to fit a switch somewhere and fiddle with the software on one of the modules. The only problem they had was that the CC light on the instrument cluster currently does not illuminate. They tried cloning over the software from a ghia model but it would not work as it thought there was a load of stuff that shoul

Thanks TDCICHIA for the info. Sounds like i'll be looking at just short of £1200 for the wheels and tyres. The bodykit probably going to be nigh on £1000 sprayed and fitted. £2200. Will have to visit a few dealerships and see if any bite on doing a deal :) Those photies of that maroon maxi above were a bad idea for my viewing :shock: :lol:

Last week I drove a new shape Fiesta with very low miles on the clock. Alas it also had creaky dash like my CMax has occasionally when it feels like it. Would appear that with interior design they have not learnt how to remedy this till after the event :roll: Nice little motor though 8) Steve - you have to take it all with a light hearted attitude or you would end up getting psychiatric about your motor and appear as a hypochondriac ;) :lol:

Thanks for the info on the prices Ron :) Will have to give my piggy bank a shake before getting too excited :lol: Do let us all know which model you end up getting and how you like it compared to the "development model" ;) Be interesting to see if Ford have learnt any lessons from the earlier models.

Hehe, cheers Steve. Thats a bit of a mouthfull to bring me down to earth :lol:

Thanks Moondust for taking the trouble to offer a helping hand :) Screwdriver at the ready :lol: FrenchCmax - May be worth you having a read of the Filters/Induction forum as there's quite a bit of info in there that may well carry across from the smaller foci to the cmax.

http://www.forddesktops.com/image.asp?f=focus&i=Ford_Focus_C-Max_Bodykit_01.jpg http://www.forddesktops.com/image.asp?f=focus&i=Ford_Focus_C-Max_Bodykit_02.jpg Hello again Ron, I've just been ogling the piccys above with those 18" alloys you mention 8) This is the first time i've seen my colour maxi with the bodykit and those alloys - very impressed. Its taking me all my effort not to go down my dealer next week and ask them for a quote to make my maxi look like that. Do you know how much those alloys are on their own? Have you got your CMax yet? I just wonder if it be worth wa

TDCIGHIA - I went to the linky further up this thread and it had drop down menu system to help you choose the right filter :) I ordered mine on Thursday and got an email to say it will be with me on Tuesday/Wednesday this week. In the meantime i've been looking on the T!S CD on how to fit it but its not very descriptive on how to do it. What it does tell you has you disconnecting cables and pipes! :shock: I've never done this before so would be grateful for any hand holding that may be on offer by someone who's already done it ;) :lol: Chris

Hi Ron, Not my cup of tea m8. Have you seen the piccys of the glass roofed CMax concept car from 2002? Ford had it spot on with that concept car - shame they didn't carry it over to production :(

Hi Vitrocmax, Yep, it was you :lol: I still have the image of that nasty speaker on your rear pillar! and the little black round switch on the side of your gearstick fascia. The button was bearable, but the speaker was comedy gold! :lol: At the time I did wonder if you wear a hearing aid? (no offence intended if you do wear one) Just thought perhaps the mechanic doing the work may have thought you were hard of hearing and used a bit of self initiative to help you :roll:

I agree on the pain in the bum with autolocking. Really you would need to lock as soon as you get in the car to stop being carjacked. Seeing what Peter says about the US making it mandatory in certain states, makes me sad to think we are heading down the same road of nurturing lawless scumbags. :evil: If your really worried about carjacking might be worth having a chat with MR_TOAD_INSTALLER on here. He did an anti car jacking device for us and its so good even the Ford dealers have trouble starting the car! :lol: Back on topic - If I ever have a smash and cannot open my doors i'll be scree

Don't let my rants put you off ;) Just with FRAUD last year stiffing a number of us as dev' testers :evil: it was very easy to enter a state of hypochondria :lol: I don't know if this would be good advice but it may be prudent to insist that the car you get is a 2005.25 variant. This is soley based on my feeling of all 2004 models being pseudo test beds for the new platform :roll: As an aside I do now feel that you will always get the problems you mention with all new models regardless of manufacturer. Seems that the more high tech the manufacturers go the less time they spend on R&D

Hehe, they may have got my money quicker, but have also alienated me in the process. Kinda shot themselves in the foot. I'm curious about the autolocking being mandatory in certain countries. Where did you hear this?

Peter - My car doesn't have the feature like the smaller foci with the door lock handle handshake to enable it. We have to get the dealer to enable the option via the WDS setup and then do the "handshake" to enable. Almost sounds like its a feature they had built into the software but never tested properly due to time constratints before RTM so just left it out. Perhaps someone somewhere noticed the option on the WDS menu's and had a play then leaked the info of it being there?

This now has me thinking back to nigh on a year ago. I seem to remember an auto electrical engineering consultant pointing the finger at some of the problems with the CMax possibly being caused by inadequate processing power for the job in hand. Could this be a case of chopping things out for this very reason instead of fixing it properly?

Nick - If this is true then it won't be long! I have a habit of locking all the doors before we set off when in built up areas. Surely the autolocking is just doing this for me and in the event of a crash will have no effect on whether the "unlock on airbag deployemt" works or not. If Ford have concerns over this it has me worried that they do not have any faith in the systems they are deploying in their cars.