Project Moogs Motahs - sinking the seat

[320touring]

What news of the sister car?

[The Moog]

What news of the sister car?

You are a very bad man!

 

I didn't get it. Bloke was a bit odd and said it is sold now.

 

 

What is it with people thinking mot less cars are worth £200 ??

[320touring]

Lol probably for the best;)

[5speedracer]

As you may have seen the Megane ia off to pastures new.

 

 

Today man from ministry say yes

 

 

One of headlight bulbs was dodgy, swapped in a new one meaning jobjobbed

 

No advisories is also a result

Is that car small or far away?

 

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[bub2006]

Far away dougal

[The Moog]

Drive missus moogs focus today for the first time in 3 months and now have a list of faults that could do with some help with.

 

1) ignition sticks when starting causing starter to run on. Is this likely to need barrel changing? It is quite stiff

 

2)after a motorway run, I stopped at light and put it into neutral and the car sounded as if it was grinding. Putting back into drive made it disappear. Any ideas?

 

3) radio will only work in 1 hour mode. Also one of the heated screen buttons will switch one then straight off. You can hear the relay click.

 

 

Any help gratefully received. My shite mojo is pretty low so a starting point will help me decide to fix it.

 

 

At the moment, matches seem a good start

[The Moog]

Problem 3 fixed. Battery just died.

[The Moog]

Started work on part 1 after manning up

 

 

Googling suggested the keys wear then eventually stick in the ignition. Ordered a cheap set off eBay hoping that having the immobiliser in the general location would enable the car to start.

 

New and old key

 

Dash apart

Barrel out

 

And.... Failure. Got it to start a couple of times but I need to sort out a better way.

 

Going to ask at Timpsons tomorrow of they can cut me a key with body of new barrel but immobiliser chip off old one.

[Tickman]

Can you not pull the chip out of the old one and put it in the new key?

Or just get them to code the new key you have?

 

I have only dealt with chipped keys from Vauxhall and you can take the key apart and swap the 'chipped' bit.

[twosmoke300]

Tape the chip or the whole old key inside the column surround near the reader loop

[The Moog]

Today seems to be the day for failures.

 

Space Runner has failed on emissions.

 

Going to put fuel cleaner and try again

[The Moog]

And it's passed.

 

[The Moog]

Glinting in the post MOT glow, having a metaphorical cigarette. Doesnt look bad for a 21 year old car

 

 

 

In other news I have found a place that you can take a photo of the focus key and they will send a new one that clips in the bottom of the horseshoe. For £12 it means I can keep the door locking ability so will try that.

[The Moog]

Space hopper got a little fettled today. All bits from bargainous Amazon.

 

Airbox off

 

 

Changed the distributor cap. Inside it was brown dust. Definitely seen better days

 

 

Rotor arm next.

New V old

 

But new one is slightly too small (on the right in this pic)

 

Did the plugs

 

Looks like cam cover gasket needs replacing as oil at the base of each sparkplug. Same with HT leads

 

 

Need to order air filter, cam cover gasket, rotor arm. Will see how much water pump and cambelt will cost.

[purplebargeken]

It's a damn fine automobile! Well done on the ticket.

[The Moog]

Need some help with missus moogs focus.

 

 

It has developed a parasitic drain which is starting to flatten battery

 

 

Pulled fuses and found F36 did this

 

 

F36 is control modules and abs. Googling it suggests GEMS needs replacing. There is no clear answer as to whether this needs to be coded or not.

 

Anyone know definitely? Is it a case of buy one from eBay and plug the bad boy in?

[sierraman]

Apparently not. Ask scarycortina. I need to purchase one with some keys so I can use the remote locking, it controls all sorts of shit round the car I think so it might not be directly linked to that. Have you checked the boot light goes out when the doors shut?

[The Moog]

Yep checked all the lights including interior ones. The central locking is playing up with it locking and unlocking a bit randomly.

 

Is it linked to immobiliser or just central locking?

[sierraman]

It operates the timed stuff such as heater rear window, interior lights etc.

[NorthernMonkey]

I've got a '99 focus 1.8 which is going over the bridge after the hols...if you want the module (or anything else) off it, let me know

[The Moog]

Yes please. Will pm you

[sierraman]

I've got a '99 focus 1.8 which is going over the bridge after the hols...if you want the module (or anything else) off it, let me know

A few requests... does the wipers work ok on the settings and do they park satisfactorily? As opposed to halfway up the bastard screen? Does it have a genuine ford CD player? If so maybe interested in these bits?

[NorthernMonkey]

Err, good question re the wipers. Not sure if they did or not and I've ragged half the loom out now. I'll see if I can power it up and check for you....there's the proper CD stereo thing in it but the little tag on the detachable plate has broken off so it's wedged in with a business card...

[sierraman]

Thatd be great, bought one from breakers and it was as bad as the one I'd took out. It's difficult to test in a breakers yard usually no keys and no power to test it in situ.

[The Moog]

Today was spent getting bits off njgleeds scrap focus. I managed to pinch the central locking module, a front door speaker plus the billy bonus of two keys, ignition barrwl plus the immobiliser sensor.

 

Bucketeer did a little sex wee over the 3 pot sirion sitting in the yard. He does like a thrumming little engine

 

Back home I swapped out the cl module plus ignition barrel and sensor .

 

Barrel was a revelation as the key turned smoothly and was much nicer. Downside was the immobiliser didn't play ball so I swapped it back.

 

The central locking module fixed some of the dodgy cl problems and now it deadlocks

 

Checked the drain and it was still there. Bugger.

 

 

Fitted the new speaker (finding all the hidden screws we didn't find taking the old door off).

 

After dinnertime a ponder I went out and removed the radio. Success!

 

[sierraman]

That uses the GEM for the 1 hour time if you turn the wireless on without engine running.

[The Moog]

The focus is mk 1 so doesnt have the GEM I think,just the module on the right hand side of the drivers pedal.

[The Moog]

The space runner has departed.

 

 

It was a delivery and then drop back.

 

No photos of the new owner as he likes to live in the Shadows... Snaffling car bargains all over the north west.

[smellypoo]

(I think) I see what you did there... 😀

[r.welfare]

Yes! Looking forward to the Shadow's upgrades, "trips to euro", and all that sort of thing before the inevitable "gummybear".