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6.0

fairly significant

Typical Repair Cost:

$89.00

Average Mileage:

57,631 miles

Total Complaints:

1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. replace top radiator hose (1 reports)
Ford Focus AC / heater problems

AC / heater problem

Helpful Websites About 2002 Ford Focus hole chaffed in radiator hose by battery box

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problem #1

2007Mar 05

Focus ZX5 2.0L 5 cyl Zetec

  • Automatic transmission
  • 57,631 miles

driving down road one day and steam starts coming out from under hood of car. was close to home and managed to make it there without overheating car. found that the top radiator hose is run so close to the bottom of the battery box that when car is running it vibrates and rubs on the battery box and it chaffes a hole in the radiator hose. seems like a bad design but no recall on it. I had the hose replaced and had a piece of foam padding that is fire proof adhered to the bottom of the battery box to prevent future chaffing.

Lloyd M.

Searsport, ME, USA

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