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| RE: German cars vs Japanese cars | 12Relevance | 5 years ago | Kaizen | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I think Toyota and Honda make longer lasting engines than Benz or BMW. Toyota and Honda focus more on quality and use time tested components. Benz and BMA focus on the latest and greatest in engineering. They are amazing machines but may not last as long. | |||||
| Answer to: Should I buy this 2007 Toyota Highlander? | 12Relevance | 3 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| (EDIT: reworded) 3.5/10 maybe a 4/10 - Since it's an early dry PowerShift that's out of warranty.. The PowerShift, a dual clutch transmission developed by Ford and Renualt, is an absolute mess, especially on early model year Ford cars. Ihad a Ford focus, it burned through two clutches in my time of ownership, got rid of it when the Ford extended transmission warranty ended. (mine was a European one, built in Germany with the 1.6 Ti-VCT not available in the US, was a fabulous wagon - loved the car, but the shuddering mess of a transmission was too much ... | |||||
| Answer to: Which used car should I buy? | 12Relevance | 3 years ago | kesterpaul62 | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| When was this engine replaced? Who did the work? Is it a remanufactured one? See if you can negotiate the price on this one. Pass. Too much money. The best one of the bunch would be the '07 Ford focus. If the '02 Ford Escort had a remanufactured engine from a reliable company and everything was done correctly, then that one would be ok to buy. | |||||
| Answer to: Steering is too stiff | 12Relevance | 3 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Is it 'real' electronic power steering, where the steering is actually driven by an electric motor? I'm unsure how the EPS is implemented in a 600cc Alto. The way it was implemented in the European Alto: (“Real EPS” aka motor driven power steering) In that case you want to focus on the battery and charging system - test them with a special battery/alternator tester. 'real' electric power steering motor often require 35 amps or more at peak load! When there's not enough battery power / generator performance - the steering tends to feel heavy, BU ... | |||||
| RE: Should I buy this Caliber | 12Relevance | 5 years ago | USAFdozerpilot | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| @kalvin I’d stick with Toyota personally but if you found a good Honda with a manual transmission that’d be just as good. The Japanese focus is cars. That’s why they are so great at building them. American cars have never been really that great because that is not what our focus is it’s trucks and SUVS. | |||||
| RE: Should I replace the AC compressor | 12Relevance | 5 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| @billybob Doubt all you want, but let’s check up on the facts: The matrix used the ZZ engine, that engine is known for being quite bad. Google the Toyota ZZ engine to see how much they last. my focuses used the 1.6/2.0 DuraTec HE. Also parts for the focus were super cheap from junkyards so I could pretty much run them for almost free. The 3rd gen (still got one) was much more efficient but they did need more attention. - The focus is a car fleet manager’s dream. Predictable, cheap, and never will stop on the road, the self diagnostics would predict any issue ... | |||||
| Answer to: Ford Ranger vs Ford Maverick | 12Relevance | 3 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| The Maverick is based on the European Ford focus MK4. I can’t really comment on the Hybrid version and no one truly knows anything about it yet - all that’s known is that Ford has a history of making the worst CVT/eCVT gearboxes and no reliability info is available yet about the latest generation. As far as the turbocharged petrol - The main difference is that Ford is offering the 2.0L EcoBoost as was offered in the Ford Edge - and it’s not a great engine by any stretch of the imagination! A bellow average but with proper care, 125k-150k miles is proba ... | |||||
| Answer to: Distance to empty on Ford Escape 2014 | 12Relevance | 4 years ago | Benjilafouine | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| Well, this is strange. Yesterday, I filled my focus 2003 with octane 91 (from octane 94 last week). Driving through my usual mountain ridge today, I felt that the focus had more power with Octane 91 than 94. I was already not impressed with octane 94 last week. There is a particular hill on my route that I use for testing. Simple enough: I downshift in fourth speed and set the cruise control to 100 km/h. With octane 87, it could not hold its speed by 7-8 kilometres. With the 91, it would lose only 1-2 kilometres and with octane 94, I noticed 4-5 kilomet ... | |||||
| Answer to: Distance to empty on Ford Escape 2014 | 12Relevance | 4 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| A 2003 Ford focus is likely new enough to detect octane ranges. The technology in computer controlled cars started coming out in the late 90s with Flex-Fuel vehicle introduction (my 1999 Ranger is a flex fuel vehicle and it detects the Octane change). My 1994 BMW also detected octane changes. Owner's manual said to use premium gas for best performance. You would need to go back to the late 70s and up through probably the early 90s to genuinely find a car that can't detect octane changes. For example, my '79 Catalina is carbureted, it doesn't "know" the octa ... | |||||
| Answer to: Prius reverse beep... INSIDE the car 🙄🤦♀️ | 12Relevance | 4 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... into D is very similar to shifting into R - thus you are creating the danger that a fatigued driver might make the wrong input and sit at a stoplight in reverse and hit your car. If your'e thinking "This doesn't happen", ask Ford focus drivers. On a Ford you're also using the lever quite a bit, going from D to N (when your double neutral feature acts up and you don't want to burn yet another clutch), or sometimes even into S. So it is not uncommon to see a focus leap backwards instead of forwards. And in general, it is a good tool to help reduce fatigue r ... | |||||
| RE: 6F35 Ford 6 speed transmission acting weird | 12Relevance | 5 years ago | Justin Shepherd | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I misread 2012 Fusion as focus, sorry about that, lol. The engine and tranny are different from the focus. The general idea is still the same. | |||||
| Answer to: AC compressor | 12Relevance | 5 years ago | billybob | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I would let her sweat it out. A/C work can get expensive quickly. It is also not uncommon to fix an A/C component and then discover that another component was faulty. Plus I would not put any money into a focus. The focus was a pretty junky car. Even Scotty said so. | |||||
| RE: 2001 Zx3 | 12Relevance | 5 years ago | Thumpy | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| I looked for that before I messaged you last time. Couldn’t find anything concrete between a regular focus and a zx3 that’s why I recommended you use alldata.com/diy , ignition input speed sensor and crank sensor it will have pictures and information to guide you. It’s been so long since I have worked on a focus off top my head I didn’t want to possibly tell you wrong on its location. The crank sensor will be down near the main crank pulley, and the speed sensor will likely be near where your ignition wires cluster together. You can go on advance auto or au ... | |||||
| Answer to: Honda 8 speed | 12Relevance | 4 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... (as in hasn't been driven for about 3 hours or more) it shifts pretty hard 1-2, 2-3 (...) The other issue I have noticed, is that when coming to a stop, sometimes it really slams into first gear, and I mean hard enough to shake the car. This happens rarely, but when it does its very disconcerting. (...) However, they said Acura had no resolution to it at this time" (Source: "the car is bad news (...) it surges and you about rear end a car in front of you that has happened twice for me along with a long list of other issues. worst mistake I made buyin ... | |||||
| RE: Impact of electric cars on Ford/GM/Chrysler going forward? | 12Relevance | 4 years ago | Dan | Submit Your Question HERE | |
| ... costing twice the price of an EV. Also, in many parts of the world there are "price books" meant to make cars depreciate faster. I got my '15 model year Ford focus still under warranty for 1/5 of its original price when it had only 70k miles - I can't imagine an EV depreciating any worse, It just can't be worse. I have 3 cars in my household, I'm pretty much their only user (E150 Corolla 1.6L MMT, Ford focus MK3 1.6L "Dry"-Powershift, Volvo C30 2.0 "Wet"-Powershift - sadly all of them (expect the Ford) age like milk...) and having an EV isn't that possible ... | |||||