Nicely done local Ford dealership!
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I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up. The drain pan is behind the firewall and the whole dash has to taken out to get to it so the guys at the shop were I bought it don't want to do it the right way and I don't think it's covered under extended warrenty and I can't afford to shell out to have it done so am stuck. When it clogs I take it in and they blow it out, charged me first time 2nd time was free but they are not going to continue this for long.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
They are cracking cars - the chassis is excellent and the gearbox is the best one I've used in a modern car. The main problem are the design "quirks". Mine has windscreen washers that, when the rubber goes, starts to drain out onto the sparks (fixed in later models), causing pinking. The other problem (common to a lot of modern cars) is that you pretty much have to take the whole light assembly out in order to change a simple bulb - meaning that it needs re-aligning, meaning a mechanic.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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They are cracking cars - the chassis is excellent and the gearbox is the best one I've used in a modern car. The main problem are the design "quirks". Mine has windscreen washers that, when the rubber goes, starts to drain out onto the sparks (fixed in later models), causing pinking. The other problem (common to a lot of modern cars) is that you pretty much have to take the whole light assembly out in order to change a simple bulb - meaning that it needs re-aligning, meaning a mechanic.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Yeah it is an awesome car! The reason I bought that model is I rented/drove one for a month when I took my trip out west and loved it. But as you say there are plenty of design quirks, and to get them worked on is expensive and a lot of the work required a mechanic.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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There were loads of explanations for what car names really meant: HONDA: Had One Never Did Again BMW: Break My Windows SAAB: Send Another Auto-mobile Back Are the only other ones I can remember (or post in the Lounge at any rate)
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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There were loads of explanations for what car names really meant: HONDA: Had One Never Did Again BMW: Break My Windows SAAB: Send Another Auto-mobile Back Are the only other ones I can remember (or post in the Lounge at any rate)
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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There were loads of explanations for what car names really meant: HONDA: Had One Never Did Again BMW: Break My Windows SAAB: Send Another Auto-mobile Back Are the only other ones I can remember (or post in the Lounge at any rate)
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
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I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up. The drain pan is behind the firewall and the whole dash has to taken out to get to it so the guys at the shop were I bought it don't want to do it the right way and I don't think it's covered under extended warrenty and I can't afford to shell out to have it done so am stuck. When it clogs I take it in and they blow it out, charged me first time 2nd time was free but they are not going to continue this for long.
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
Mike Hankey wrote:
I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up.
Try setting the vent control so the AC brings in outside air and cools it down rather than recirculate the air from the cabin over and over. My dad was a mechanic for 40+ years (not at a Ford dealer, mind you) and one of his observations is that if you let an AC recirculate the air from the cabin, it gets too cold then freezes the lines. Then they either have to blow it out, as you're seeing, or wait until it thaws out on its own. By letting it draw outside air instead, it should never get cold to the point where the line freezes.
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I had one - or at least a re-badged Daewoo. Worst car I ever owned, and I owned a car screwed together in Birmingham on the late 70s.
Alberto Brandolini:
The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
Keith Barrow wrote:
Worst car I ever owned, and I owned a car screwed together in Birmingham on the late 70s.
They used screws?? Luxury! Our family's '79 midlands mobile was held together with spit and sticky tape. Eventually the rust helped add stability.
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I just bought a 2012 Ford Focus a few months ago and I really love it but my A/C condensate line leaks onto passenger floor and I've taken it back were I bought it and they blow the line out and it works for a while then clogs back up.
Try setting the vent control so the AC brings in outside air and cools it down rather than recirculate the air from the cabin over and over. My dad was a mechanic for 40+ years (not at a Ford dealer, mind you) and one of his observations is that if you let an AC recirculate the air from the cabin, it gets too cold then freezes the lines. Then they either have to blow it out, as you're seeing, or wait until it thaws out on its own. By letting it draw outside air instead, it should never get cold to the point where the line freezes.
Awesome advice will check it out thanks! [update] It was set on outside circulation and it's still leaking. Boooooo So the dealership is getting a call today. [/update]
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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Awesome advice will check it out thanks! [update] It was set on outside circulation and it's still leaking. Boooooo So the dealership is getting a call today. [/update]
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead? Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
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There were loads of explanations for what car names really meant: HONDA: Had One Never Did Again BMW: Break My Windows SAAB: Send Another Auto-mobile Back Are the only other ones I can remember (or post in the Lounge at any rate)
You looking for sympathy? You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric (Page 1788, if it helps)
