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The last 2 weeks I've had quite the recurring headache. I was driving to work like normal, not pushing it hard not taking it easy just going the way I always do, start to go up an overpass bridge/hill and my overheat (little yellow light with exclamation point in spiked circle) light turned on...

Scratching my head a bit Over the weekend my wife was driving my car and the car started to over heat. She pulling up to a nearby store and turned off the car. upon checking a few things I haven’t been able to determine what the issue is coming from. so far I’ve tested the following. -Fan...

When I was driving home from work one day this week the serpentine belt decided to slip off. I immediately pulled over and put it back on. Nothing seemed wrong and when I started it everything was fine except for a squeak from one of the pulleys. I waited till yesterday to work on it and when I...

2003 Focus ZTS, 2.0L DOHC ZETECH. Edit 3: problem solved. Was a bad fan resistor, thank you to everyone who commented and gave me ideas and things to try. Proud to be part of the focus community Original post: Just replaced my thermostat and flushed the cooling system in attempt to fix this...

Hello all so this is my first post on Focus Fanatics I hope I get the formatting correct, I recently bought a 2002 Ford Focus Wagon and its been amazing to own, I drove 4 hours round trip for this car and loved every second of it, but as of late ive been having intermittant "overheating"...

backstory, I've had my check engine light come on before, and when I've checked the codes its my thermostat. Moving forward. I was driving yesterday and all of a sudden my cars battery, and temperature 🌡️ lights came on, and my steering went stiff. I pulled over let it cool down, checked my...

I have replaced the cooling fan resistor 3 times since I have owned this car (160k miles) and it melted once again. My issue this time is that I had to cut so deep to find clean wire to splice, that it is now too short to splice without cutting into the joint where it crosses with the fan motor...

2003 focus, 2.0L DOHC ZETEC, Automatic I had a leaky thermostat housing as it's quite a common issue on the zetec so I replaced it and now I have a very weird over heating issue.(car never overheated before replacing thermostat/thermostat housing) After the car comes up to normal operating...

Hi This is about my 2008 mk2.5 ford focus 1.6 petrol I slowed down to a crawl in motorway traffic and I had a warning light to say the engine was overheating. Pulled over to let the engine cool down and turned round to drive carefully home. I've only had the issue since by running idle for...

My bf and i are at lost, our car keeps over heating. We changed the water pump and thermostat, we even checked to see if the thermostat was working and re installed it again. Does anyone else know what could be the cause or any leads? It has fluids. Any tips would be great. Hes been battling...

I've been working on a 03 LX with a 2.3L engine. This car was my uncle's who passed away last year and his son did not want it, so it was left to me. After I finally got it to pass Cal SMOG and registered (big ordeal). I had the A/C system recharged. A/C blows cold now it's starting to get...

Hi I’m wondering if anyone has any ideas why my 2004 manual Focus engine won’t turn over. It overheated while parked for an hour. This was 2 hours after a 3 hour drive and everything seemed fine during the trip. We put coolant in it and waited for it to cool & then it proceeded not to start...

last summer the car started overheating at red lights, i changed the coolant and thermostat and it stopped, so i thought, well i figured out if its 75 degrees or more outside and i drive about 50 miles on the trip odo. it slightly overheats for a few minutes, but no fans come on unless i turn...

So, two questions: 1.) Was going to go to Reno yesterday to visit a friend and some family. But as i got towards the freeway i saw that my wagon was running little bit warm (about 3/4 of the full range), thought it was kinda weird, but chalked it up to it being a hot day, and i was running the...

I love my 2001 ZX3, especially since I paid 5K and it had only 30K miles !!! And I've driven it very 'tenderly', coasting to save the brakes, etc. So on Sat. it wouldn't start. AAA man said it wasn't just the battery. He said something about the timing not being right ... Today the local...