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Paula Hynds, County Tyrone

Ford Focus 1.8 TDCi 115 ZETEC 2003

2 star review

Hi, I bought my Zetec TDCI Focus brand new in May 2003 and it wasnt great. I recently crashed it and have replaced it with a lovely HDI 308 SPORT. The Focus started playing up after 2 years with the speedometer not telling me the MPH and RPM. Then the button on the dash for opening the boot quit working and radio would jump stations by itself, to be honest that was all little niggles. But the big expensive problems started around early 2008. Frstly in order to get it into 3rd gear when accelerating from a junction I would have to rev it over 3500 rpm for it to go into gear. Then in the mornings it struggled to start even though it was during the summer months, I got it checked by the AA and Ford themselves and they said it was 100%. So when it came to the winter it simply would not start and it had a new battery. The heater plugs were changed loads of time hoping it would cure the slow starting but it never helped. I had 137000 miles on it when I crashed it and I’m glad to see the back of it. It wasn’t started for over 6 days due to it’s shocking reliability. Not a good car!!

Submitted: 25/03/2010 21:29:07

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Craig Bennet, Somerset

Ford Focus ST170 2003

5 star review

A very reliable and good fun car. Had it 3 years before growing family forced me to get rid of it. The ride was a bit hard at times but once on the motorway was as comfortable as my dad’s new Mondeo and it took us to Scotland and back no problem doing over 1000 miles in 3 days. It drinks petrol like its going out of fashion but I put that mainly down to a few modifications I had done to it. I never had any major problems with it and kept it well serviced and it never failed me once I would defently buy this car again.

Submitted: 13/01/2010 12:22:15

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Michael Whittle, Essex

Ford Focus Zetec 2003

4 star review

Overall a very good car. But has had some niggling electrical problems, one finally traced to an ABS sensor connector, the other to problems with the PCB on the dashboard which caused a lot of intermittent problems.

Submitted: 15/05/2009 09:21:31

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Christine Hutchinson, England

Ford Focus 2003

3 star review

I love my focus its ideal for me and my family very spacious the kids enjoy a drive out in it because its comfortable the only fault i have with this car is that there was a fault with the clocks and they all went off cost me a fortune to fix right when my mot was due so i couldn€™t drive it for a few weeks! till i got he cash i was guttered other than that I’ve had no other (touch wood) problems with my car.

Submitted: 14/02/2008 10:54:57

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