Ford Focus 1600 (Y reg) Automatic - Door Lock Fault

[gadgetgricey]

Anyone know if the Auto's in these are CVT or a proper box.

 

The wife's Scenic grenaded itself the weekend, so looking at one of these as a replacement. Providing its a proper box.

 

Cheers

[Ghosty]

1600 isn't CVT, you'll be fine. Cracking cars.

Avoid similarly aged Fiestas, though - it's those that are CVT.

[gadgetgricey]

Cheers Ghosty. Thank F&*K for that that.

Forgot to ask the seller, and just had a bit of a panic attack.

 

Cheers

 

- Dave -

[cms206]

I put 60k hard miles on a 54-plate 1.6 auto Focus and it never put a foot wrong. Not amazing and shit on fuel but they run and run.

[gadgetgricey]

The Scenic we had was a 2.0, so hoping this will be a tad better.

 

Main fault is that its only an LX, so no heated front windscreen. 

 

Everything else seems bang on though..

[Mike D]

If you can find a 2.0 go for that over the 1.6, my 1.6 manual is no where near as good as the 2.0 was, and I imagine the situation would be worse with an auto

[Asimo]

 

Main fault is that its only an LX, so no heated front windscreen..

Isn't that a good thing?, those windscreen elements drive me nuts!

[RichL]

One of my friends Grandparents have a '52 1.6 LX Estate auto with 160k on the clock. Still going well with no issues.

[sierraman]

Do you need a badermatic? Its much better as a manual.

[Volksy]

A mate has had one of these for ages, and it's been, I dare to say, the best car he's ever had. only issues seem to be the bi-annual ARB droplink replacement, and creeping rust on the doors. 

[gadgetgricey]

Do you need a badermatic? Its much better as a manual.

Unfortunately yes. The wife passed in a manual, but then I hired an A-class from Easyrentacar for a week (best £7 I ever spent) and she refused to drive a manual from that point on.

I do sometimes remind her that she can drive a manual, but get rewarded with a stare that could freeze the balls off an eskimo at 30paces.

[Bren]

How did the scenic go on the fritz?

 

Diesel engine? Gearbox?

[gadgetgricey]

Engine bang, threw a con rod and ended up as a big pool of oil on the motorway.

Loads of other minor things wrong with it, so time to say bye bye.

2.0 pez Auto.

[sierraman]

I'd like to think with a Focus you can see whether its s good one fairly easily. Things that go wrong or to watch for include:

 

Rust - on the bottoms of the doors and bootlid, more worrying is if its at the back of the sills or on the rear suspension mounts or chassis legs. If its gone here forget it.

 

Exhaust - the flexi goes every so often but its built into the manifold so you change the lot, but then its only £60 at ECP.

 

Airbag unit control can go

 

Coil pack fails, again however cheap to replace

 

Usual bottom arm Arb droplink wear but not as bad as Fiestas mk2 mondeo etc

 

Water getting in the footwell from pollen filter, water in boot from leaking tail lamps or dried out seam sealer behind bumper

 

Just general worn out ones, there's loads about so avoid the Barried up ones

[gadgetgricey]

Due to view/collect this Sunday, but seller has just e-mailed me to advise that the drivers door is not working via the central locking "blip/button".

All the other doors open as they should on the button.

 

If you use the key in the door, the door unlocks and central locking works on all the other doors.

 

Anyone aware if this is a known fault on the Mk1's as done a search on Google and responses seem to vary from lock actuator motor fail, to deadlock problems and being locked in the car..

 

cheers

 

Dave

[mrbenn]

More than likely the mechanism - not hugely difficult to change apparently. If you get the car, try blasting it with wd40 or similar.

 

Not sure about the deadlocking concern, the doors can be deadlocked/un-deadlocked using the key so guess it would just be window down, key in door, exit

[sierraman]

Probably failed solenoid in the door itself for the central locking. Either fail through wear or water ruining them.