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Originally Posted by roddy1960
One of the young teachers at work just inherited her father in law's car after he handed in his licence . It's a 2013 Ford Fiesta . Has 78,000 kms on it because I asked her the other day . Without alarming her I asked her same time how she likes it . "Awesome " was the answer she game me and also told me it's returning about 6 litres per 100 kms even when her husband who is a beekeeper drives it .He's a bit of a hoon apparently according to her.
They picked it up about a month ago but she hasn't driven it until a couple of weeks ago because it had to go over the pits and be re-registered as the rego period had expired . By the sounds of it she has no issues at all and it is the auto . I kept my big mouth shut as not to worry her. Claire is no dummy so if it is the troublesome tranny and was playing up she'd be aware of it I'm guessing and it would have been found on the roadworthy . Beaut little car and in great nick ..
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Speaking to a tech in the USA about the issues a few years back,
he said that the early issue was gearbox oil leaking from front seal
onto clutch plates and also juddering of clutch plates from build up
of clutch dust inside the housing. The next is heat of the gearbox
eventually fails the power control module that mounted directly to
the trans case.
Ford US has just stopped making Focus at Michigan but reports are
that the later version behave a lot better than the earlier stuff so
maybe Ford has found a way of calming it and improving time
before problems surface....
So at the very minimum, whatever has been done there should
also be applied to our cars.