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Ford Recalls Focus Again
November 5, 2002
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Ford announced two recalls of more than 572,000 2000 and 2001 model-year Focus cars. Most of the cars being recalled are in the U.S. but some are in Canada, Mexico and other countries.

One recall involves a bolt in the front suspension that may be loose. This can cause noise, vibration or, in a small number of cases, separation of the ball joint, the company said. The fix calls for inspecting the lower control arm hardware and tightening, or replacing, the affected bolt if necessary.
The other recall involves Focus vehicles with Zetec engines in which potential problems with battery cable routing could result in smoke, wire melting or a fire . The fix calls for inspecting and re-routing of the cables and replacement if necessary.

 
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Ahh yes.. Quality is job#1

 
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repost... the last focus sucks thread was titled another reason why ford sucks....

 
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yeah that was all over the news on monday, they've just got a couple quality control issues down there in the Mexico plant. [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG]

 
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theyre made in mexico?!?!?!?!

 
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last I read, most or all Focuses are made in the mexican plant.. cheap labor

 
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AND THERE ARE MORE RECALLS TO COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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its funny how car & driver wrote that article & yet the focus is considered one of thier top 10 cars [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/IMG]

 
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WHO CARES. Every car manufacturer has problems. HondaGuru posted something the other day about over 900,000 Accords being recalled due to faulty wiring.

 
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The civic I had keeps stalling on me as well. At least Ford is good enough to admit there's a problem and issue a fix.

 
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Ford doesn't come out & admit it in most cases they're forced to by the national highway safety board or some other national organization, becuz there's too many reoccurances of one certain problem that is deemed life threatening. i agree that every car company has its problems. but some company's like Honda just have less of one certain reoccuring problem, so those organizations decide that theirs no real threat of life. & they decide not to issue a recall. Of course then its up the manufaturer if they want to make a recall & lose money, generally they let it slide.

 
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umm faulty wiring is alot differant than unexplained fires

 
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Only Focus built in Mexico is the hatch (zx3, zx5 and svt) so don´t blame it on the plant. That car is probably breaking all the recall records.

when I look at these things I realize the civic is not that bad at all, even with the little quirks.

And still car and driver puts this car in their 10 best list...

 
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just cause they're built in Mexico doesn't mean they are badly built, it means that the Desing and R&D that goes on in the US is the one with the quality control problem, and belive me cheap labor is not what it seems you should come to any foreign company's plant here in Mexico........

 
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damn... and they recall when it's absolutely necessary.. (things may go wrong and they may be sued for it)...

I wonder what else is wrong with it that Ford is not saying.

 
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The Focus that's sold in Europe and Asia doesn't have that many problems. Isn't it the same design?