I got my car Dec. 2006 and two months later the alternator goes out. Three months after that one of my valve seats drop and the pistons looked like someone took a meat cleaver to them. So, after sitting for another 6 months I put a new head on and not a week later all 4 valve seats drop and again the pistons looked horrible. I took it to the mechanic 2wks ago to get a new motor put in and they call and tell me the motor they put in blew as soon as they started it up. So, motor #4 went in the next week and I went and picked it up. Everything seemed fine drove it around all day and then the oil light comes on. WTF! I look in the motor no oil, so I thought the mechanic didn't put enough oil in the motor or something. So, I start pouring oil in and it's pouring out underneath the car.[?|] Took it home and checked everything out, the cam shaft seal popped out. I stuck it back in and everything was good again. Yesterday I'm driving the car around again and it starts idling all retarded. When I sit at a light it idles real low and then normal and then low again and shuts off. The check engine light comes on w/ the code 0171 which is system running to lean. I tell you as soon as I fix the car this time I'm done. She is being traded in for something else. My car makes me sick.[vommit] I love my little car so much at the same time. I had already started modifying it and had it almost the way I wanted it and now I just don't trust it enough to keep it. Damn blasted Focus!
Time to trade in this POS!
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I got my car Dec. 2006 and two months later the alternator goes out. Three months after that one of my valve seats drop and the pistons looked like someone took a meat cleaver to them. So, after sitting for another 6 months I put a new head on and not a week later all 4 valve seats drop and again the pistons looked horrible. I took it to the mechanic 2wks ago to get a new motor put in and they call and tell me the motor they put in blew as soon as they started it up. So, motor #4 went in the next week and I went and picked it up. Everything seemed fine drove it around all day and then the oil light comes on. WTF! I look in the motor no oil, so I thought the mechanic didn't put enough oil in the motor or something. So, I start pouring oil in and it's pouring out underneath the car.[?|] Took it home and checked everything out, the cam shaft seal popped out. I stuck it back in and everything was good again. Yesterday I'm driving the car around again and it starts idling all retarded. When I sit at a light it idles real low and then normal and then low again and shuts off. The check engine light comes on w/ the code 0171 which is system running to lean. I tell you as soon as I fix the car this time I'm done. She is being traded in for something else. My car makes me sick.[vommit] I love my little car so much at the same time. I had already started modifying it and had it almost the way I wanted it and now I just don't trust it enough to keep it. Damn blasted Focus!
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man that sucks....
ya get a zetec or something. good luck getting something else
ya get a zetec or something. good luck getting something else
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Sound like you need a new mechanic.
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def sounds like you need a new mechanic..your telling me all these motors are just blowing up all over the place look to the person who installs the motor for the real problem i mean cmon
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shitty mechanic??
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Happens with age and high miles. Usally is'nt that hard or exspensive to fix.
Unfortunally that happends.
All 4 at once? Now things are sounding fishy. That just does'nt happen unless it's serverly over heated.
Thats a big line of stinky bull crap right there. The motor was bad from the start and should of been under some ones warranty.
I bet this was a pervious overhaul/repair, this just never happends.
Sounds like your O2 sensor died, if one of the old motors blew collent out the exhaust this would help kill it.
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Eff a Japanese car! I'm gonna stick w/ my chevrolets from now on! BTW i found out that i'm stuck w/ this piece until i pay a little more of the payments. I own way more than the damn thing is worth. I so got effed on this car. I love my car for the way it looks, but i hate the motor.
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Wreck it and collect the insurance money. [eek] Did I just say that? [angel]
wow i also think its the tech working on it if u got a tech that dasnt know how to do shit right then yea youl have that problem i had the same problem i had a 82 bronco 2 for my first car my freands and i bet the thing to hell and back many times then one dar my clutch blew now this bronco had almost a million miles on it no joke everything was the origanal wich thats had to beleve but back to the story i to it to a machnic fixed it ran like a champ then my crank blew throw the block an the oil pan dont ask me how it just did took it to the same guy fixed it up 2 days later my crank blew again took it there again got a new one for free cus he gave me a woranty on it thak god the week later my pistons went throw the block i was pissed i took it to new guy he told me that if he would of put assembly lube and replased the piston rods that non of it would of happend and then i really freeked and the guy told me that it would of cost me over 2000 to fix it all up i told him that im selling it for scrap finish the 1500 daller debt i had
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