9.4
really awfulTypical Repair Cost:
$2,827.00
Average Mileage:
94,122 miles
Total Complaints:
14 complaints
Most common solutions:
- replace engine (9 reports)
- take it to the junk yard (3 reports)
- not sure (1 reports)
- spark plugs can help fix it all (1 reports)
engine problem
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2009Mar 15
Focus SE 2.0L Sohc
- Automatic transmission
- 105,000 miles
I bought my Focus with 40000 miles on it. It ran great for a few years. This car had some various issues (Vacuum Leak, Spark Plugs, Broken Motor Mount) But none of them were too major. This car always made strange sounds. One day I stopped into a hardware store, and when I came out the engine wouldn't start. It just made this terrible grinding noise. I knew it was a bad sounds so I had it towed to the shop. They told me they could put a used engine with 75000 on it into my car for about $2000. I didn't want to spend the money for an engine that would probably have the same problem in a year or two. The focus now sits in my driveway.
2009Apr 10
Focus 2.0L Sohc
- Manual transmission
- 188,000 miles
I bought my Focus nine years ago with 8,000 miles on it. Overall, it had been a pretty good reliable car until the engine blew up at 188,000 miles. I really did want to get at least 200,000 miles on it but I figure that I did get my moneys worth for the most part.
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2009Mar 28
Focus LX 2.0L
- Manual transmission
- 142,000 miles
I was at a bank ATM drive through, and the car started clicking. I moved it out of the way and turned it off to look for obvious issues, but couldn't see any. I took the valve cover off and still couldn't see any issues. I started to back up and the engine made a loud bang and went "clang clang clankety clang BOOOM".... or something to that effect; quite impressive actually. Anyway I bought this piece for $1,500 and had to replace a lot in the 20,000 miles I put on it. I now have a $200 car that
no one wants to fix with the engines valve seat issues which are expensive to replace/repair.
My 1985 Honda Accord by way of comparison for you folks out there, has 438,000 miles and has been rebuilt once and has never dropped a valve seat or anything silly like that. It's really no wonder that Detroit has issues. These cars and engines
are thrown together and not properly engineered. This is evident when they break and parts are impossible to get to, or just engineered to fit after the fact as they are taken from a common parts bin and shared among many vehicles.
Honda, Subaru and Toyota to name a few do the same thing but somehow their designs work and are easy as pie to repair and work on.
The cylinder head in the Ford is aluminum, the block is iron and the material the valve seats are made of all cool and heat at
different rates and eventually can cause the valve seat to come loose, which was the ticking sound described earlier... and then get pushed back into head by the moving valve until it explodes and impacts the engine with shrapnel.
Anyway I now have a pretty shiny worthless piece of "ap cray" sitting in my driveway for the Honda's to laugh at. RIP Detroit!
2008Dec 29
Focus SE 2.0L
- Automatic transmission
- 91,000 miles
Well, my Focus problem began at the Wendy's drive through. I had just placed my order and was idling to the pickup window when I heard a "thump, thump, thump, thump - clunk - dead..." The motor would not turn over and a couple of guys pushed me out of the way. I figured the timing belt broke or maybe the head gasket went. I spent 4 hours tearing it apart and I was shocked, the number 4 cylinder was completely chewed up and metal particle about the size of a small pebble were sprinkled throughout the head. I put a wrench on the crank to turn the motor over and the #4 piston did not rise or descend with the others, this is bad...
With a couple of tugs I yanked the destroyed piston out to reveal a 1.5 X 1inch hole in the inner cylinder wall.
I am repairing the car for about $1600. I really like my Focus but am concerned I will face this again. The only symptom I had was a rough idle when cold on some days, other than that nothing.
2007Jan 15
Focus LX 2.0L
- Automatic transmission
- 80,000 miles
Well I had my engine replaced a little over a year ago. It cost about 3,000 dollars, and unfortunately it was a complete wast of money! The piece of sh*t has been in and out of the shop regularly ever since the three months it spent getting the engine replaced. It broke down at hour 11 of a 13 hour trip. I was moving, had yet to secure a job, and the engine blew. I had no option at the time but to fix it, but it was a complete waste of money. I've been reading the other problems and it's pretty sad that I was actually considering myself lucky for the car to last 80,000 miles! I'm currently still driving to vehicle, after spending so much money on it, I keep thinking that it'll eventually run right for a while. I probably should just take it for a swim in the river
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2008Jul 21
Focus LX 2.0L Sohc
- Manual transmission
- 127,000 miles
this car has been a real pain in the ass. I replaced the $700 clutch and then less than two months later with no warning a piston breaks. the shop I took it to said it would be over three thousand dollars to put a new engine in it. that is more than the car is worth.
I have owned couple of fords in the past,they had there problems but, this is an outrage...
I have never driven the car hard or missed a service. I drove to work to get my check everything was normal. then when I went to start it to leave,it made a clicking sound and wouldn't start. I waited for a friend to show up and take a look. he had me try and start it and it did barely made another different horrible racket and the whole front end shook and it was dead. FORD MAKES CRAP AND SELLS IT! now I have a used drive way ornament. thanks ford motor company for making quality number one! I will never own another ford. I am however looking at an old vw at least I can afford the mechanic this time!!!
2008Jul 15
Focus SE 2.0L Sohc
- Automatic transmission
- 108,740 miles
2000 ford focus valve seats fell apart and dropped onto pistons destroying motor. Lots of other people having the same problem.Ford needs to address this major fault. Problem happens with low or high miles-very well known problem .Ford stresses customer maintenance but cannot build quality parts for their vehicles to make it worth maintaining them as they insist. I will not buy another ford product until they can come back into the quality car business by fixing their known product faults and prove they can actually build a quality (reliable )vehicles with quality materials.
2008Jun 18
Focus LX 2.0L
- Automatic transmission
- 87,231 miles
We purchased our 2000 Ford Focus LX three years ago used. One month into ownership, the car started stalling during hot weather. What made it so bad was that I had my infant son with me each time it did this. In the winter it ran fine til the heater went out. The next Spring my hubby replaced plugs and hoses and it ran fine. Then we took off to FL. Ran fine on the way down there. But on the way back, it started it's stalling crap again. We finally made it home. Then June of this year I was at Walmart and just bought groceries, and when I went to start the car, it made a horrible clicking sound, then it wouldn't start. Had it towed to a shop, and the engine was blown! No one is willing to drop another engine in it with a warranty. Four mechanics have told us that they are junk cars,. Even Jasper Engines said that they could drop one in for $2000 with no warranty!!! What a joke!
Hunk of Junk waste of money vehicle. I now have a 1987 Mercury Tracer wagon, and she runs like a dream... No more Fords for me.. Broken Focus in the drive, and a broken 1987 Ford T-Bird in the backyard! Hissssss. Ford.....
2008Mar 22
Focus SE 2.0L Spit
- Automatic transmission
- 54,235 miles
the car is not fix yet, sitting. i email ford, they told me to go buy a new car or take to the dealer to find out the problem . its just wrong for a motor to blow at that kind of miles on it. we change the oil when it called for and we hear that a lot of people have same problem. now that just ,,,, up ford used to be a good name. what happen to that name? it go out the door. ya have a good day.
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2003Dec 17
(reported on)Focus LX
- 38,000 miles
The head gasket blown up at 38000 and my car has to be towed to the dealer who advised me to replace the engine. The problem is that Ford does not have the engine ready and
does not want to give me a loaner or a car rental assistance.
This means that FORD can not support the cars that they sell!!. This should serve as warning to those planning to buy Ford cars. Dont!!
2007Apr 11
Focus SE 2.4L
- Automatic transmission
- 65,000 miles
I had just gotten my focus from a private owner (of course the warranty was no good.) who kept it in very good condition both inside and outside.
Well about a month after getting the car the steering wheel would lock up and the car would start to decrease in speed on its own (not allowing me to accelerate.)
I took it to two different auto shops, both ran diagnostics and could find nothing wrong. (one place actually told me "to come back when it breaks.")
Well about two weeks later-I did come back, with my car on a tow-truck.
The engine had pretty much went BOOM.
I had to get a new engine which took 3 months.
They said that the problem was the number 5 spark plug!
This had happened again in the past few months and I went right away to get the spark plug fixed. now the problem is no more.
If you do buy a focus beat yourself in the head and make sure the number 5 spark plug is changed every 4 months or so.
2006Jul 18
(reported on)Focus LX
- 83,500 miles
I'm not sure if this car is even worth fixing! I have put so much $ into this car between new ignitions (2x), a new transmission and numerous other problems. I would advise anyone looking into buying a Ford Focus to think twice about it!!!The valve snapped off into engine destroying engine
2008Mar 04
Focus SE 3.2L
- Automatic transmission
- 73,000 miles
we averaged less then 10,000 miles a year. we changed the oil as scheduled. 73,000 miles. it's done. dealer offered 1500.00 scam trade in on another new ford piece of crap. got a better deal from Suburu with no trade in. another ford buyer waves bye bye. we had many problems on the car glad it ended our ford relationship.
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2009Jul 01
Focus 2.0L
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This thing is a POS. Number 4 valve seat exited it's position and destroyed the piston and head. Had to replace the engine at 75000 with a remanufactured engine at a cost of $3010. At least the new engine has a three year warranty. It is my first and last Ford product I will ever buy.
Chris W.
Celina, OH, USA
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