2013 Ford Focus SEL Review - A Small Car With A BIG Problem...
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Without even watching the video, I know the big problem. Transmission!
I own a 2012 Titanium sedan with 287,xxx miles and yes pulling from a stop sign or bumper to bumper Traffic Is annoying but other than that it's a good car
As someone that sells Cars for a living: Just remember that Friends DON'T let friends buy Ford Focus's......
Unless it’s equipped with a manual transmission
Or equinox and terrains
Frosted Glass Metallic! That color was only available on the Focus for the 2012 model year... One of my favorite colors! It was also available on the 2013 year model C-Max and Escape as well. 😊
I rented a 2015 Focus back in 2016 and thought it was fantastic. I rented the same car again six weeks later and wondered if the transmission would even last the whole weekend. Nice car, totally ruined by an abusive transmission, as you pointed out.
My friend had this transmission and had it serviced 5 times in 100,000 miles.
My sister-in-law had one of these Focuses with the auto that had the clutches replaced under warranty. I drove it to the dealer for that service appointment and it would slip and then slam into second gear, but the other shifts were okay.
She traded it in with only a few thousand miles remaining on the warranty to avoid having to overhaul it again out of warranty, lol
Also have a buddy who had a 6-speed manual version. Got to drive it after a night when he had been drinking and it was very good!
This was my first car. A 2014 SE for $3000 with a rebuilt title and in 2018 that was like a brand new car. And boy did I rice that poor thing out. I chopped off the muffler with a sawzall, slapped in a drop in cone air filter, blacked out the chrome with plasti-dip, stripped the whole trunk for weight reduction and I removed the little rubber gasket that plugs up the hole in the firewall where the clutch pedal would be on a manual.
I would pretend it was a manual by pressing the plus and minus button to switch gears and boy did I feel like I was Ken Block in that thing. The transmission had that infamous shutter but to my surprise it's actually still working to this day.
The benefit of the AWFUL transmission problem is that the manual versions are also depreciating like crazy and they're largely trouble-free
Ahh, the notorious Ford Powershitf transmission! A nail in the coffin for both the Focus and Fiesta.
For the record, Ford, I never stopped liking little cars, so don't blame this on me, Mr Weonlyselltrucksnow!
The Focus is ending production globally next year, and they've already discontinued the Fiesta in Europe. So I'm not sure how Ford is going to bring small cars back. BTW, you forgot to mention that the transmission is a DCT, which is already a bad choice for an "economy" car to begin with, regardless of how reliable (or unreliable in this case) they might be. There's a reason Volkswagen is moving away from DCTs in their non-performance cars, and yet Hyundai and Kia are continuing to use them in their cars.
I had a 2013 Fiesta with the same transmission. It was the biggest piece of cr*p I've ever owned. For years, Ford knowingly sold hundreds of thousands of these cars to people on a tight budget and they knew all along that this transmission was flawed. And now their Ecoboost engines are having head gasket problems.
Zack, Was this the model year Ford put in fiberglass rocker panels? The presence of intact, metal rocker panels in a Salt Belt Focus over 3 years old is unprecedented. 🤣
I was able to find a nicely optioned manual one for a fun daily a year ago now. Fantastic drivetrain with the right setup, and incredibly reliable because it's still a mazda motor technically. Only thing that sucks is the 5th gear ratio is super short, highways aren't the best but around town 45mph in 5th is great for mpgs.
about that thing on SUVs towards the end, they are safer but only for you, not for everyone around. if a nissan Qashqai hits a kia cee apostrophe d, the people in the nissan will be fine because it's a bigger vehicle, the people in the kia will not have a good time because it's a smaller car. if kuga hits a juke, they'll be relatively fine and the same with a corsa hitting an aygo because they're roughly the same size and weight. SUVs are huge and safe but they're heavy, bulky and big, you will be fine in one, but the pedestrian or avarage sized hatchback/ sedan will have a bad time
The issue is due to the dry type clutches associated with gasoline models. Ford's current response is to replace the clutch pack assembly (with updated parts) when shuddering exceeds 250 rpm (upon customer complaint).
My wife dailies this car and exactly as Zack said the transmission is absolutely terrible. I really wish my wife knew how drive a manual transmission I would switch it off for one of those in a heartbeat now don’t get me wrong. The engine is absolutely fabulous for what it is transmission sucks balls my wife is on her third transmission and thank God he’s holding out for the moment plus like with the NC Miata, it has a terrible coolant tank issue which I’m planning on switching out my wife’s for a aluminum coolant tank in the near future as I will with the NC Miata I’m hoping to buy in the near future.
I had a 14 SE with the 5 sp. Was pretty good with the manual. But traded it for a fiesta ST that I still have.
Cheat code: manual transmission.
Especially Nissans and Fords 😉
My wife had a 2015 Focus with 112k miles and yes the automatic transmission was failing fortunately it is gone now
I had one from the same year and glad I upgraded to a Tacoma because I was afraid of it falling apart on me eventually
@@gumpgump3635 yes and when the a/c quit that was game over (we live in Texas black car)
About 12 years ago, I work for Roush and tested Ford Focus on test drives.
They were so uncomfortable on long trips. The Ford Fiesta were even worse.
I had a '13. Once the recalls were done it ran great. Sold & 130k. I had it for 6 years, did 95k... it over heated a lot, but I attribute that to the salvage title it carried
Ford stopped making small cars & sedans several years ago and focused on SUVs & trucks. GM has followed suit. The problem is that American manufacturers built them too cheaply and were unreliable, so they don't hold up like a Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic.
So this just blatantly isn’t true
@@simeoncastaldo7081 Well, no Chevy Cruize, Focus , Neon or Fiesta. Would you consider these vehicles "Quality"?
The teal ford focus…the official car of Drive Time 😂
Problem can be with dual clutch seal leak, automated dual clutch transmission or transmission control module.
I bought a 2017 new and thought I was ok since I made sure it was a stick shift. Nope it was junk. Had a front suspension clunk since new the dealer refused to fix. Multiple recalls. One for the clutch coming apart and potentially causing a fire. The wipers would stop mid stroke for 5-10 seconds in pouring rain. The radio would reset itself to a random station (infuriating when listing to an audiobook poof your spot it gone). The HVAC would reset itself to random temp. Front passenger has a laughably poor amount of leg room. My kids would get motion sickness riding in the backseat. I cut my hands twice on sharp metal exposed in the trunk loading luggage. Car started acting like it was going to have more issues so I unloaded it to Carvana after 6 years and only 50,000 miles. Good riddance.
My Focus has the Dual Crutch Transmission 😂 it feels depressed, anxious, and manic ar the same time lol
should have got the focus st or focus rs
Duel clutch transmission...
If it ain't broke BREKE IT! RUIN IT. WITH A DREDFUL CONTRAPTION THAT THAT IS STOUT AS A DRY SPAGHETTI NOODLE.
5:40 This has almost as many buttons as a Mercedes from years ago. Almost.
Can you do my Passat next😂
I have a Focus & Passat with a DCT rip 🤣
@@randalcalvert270 nice
I wanted to like these but the transmission is awful
2008-2011 Ford focus the Best.
6 minutes ago is tantalizing
These small cars needs no automatic transmission.
I had a 14 Focus SE with the auto. I blew the engine around 58,000 miles because of the previous owners accident at 10,000 miles. Because of the accident there was overheating issues that killed my head gasket then my engine. That transmission was the worse part. At least the engine I fixed the radiator fan and stopped the overheating issue. That transmission gave me issues the whole time I had the car. Crazy long hesitation when you put your foot down, very rough shifts, holding gears randomly and way too often was it lurching forward on its own as you would start to come to a complete stop. Garbage transmission design.
Same same & same here 😂
Always the debate . Ford people .. the FiST or the FoST?
focus rs
Ford 3.5 & 3.7 V6 engine had the Water Pump Inside the Engine.
_Ford is not your Friend_
All the American Automakers care about is their bottom line - making higher profits & reducing costs. They don't care about build quality and reliability the way the Japanese automakers do which is they use cheaper quality materials and parts to save money. Of course they also the burden of the costs of the United Auto Workers that the foreign automakers don't have
Sorry to inform you, but the Japanese car makers are = no pun intended= focused on higher profit vehicles too. Honda especially-no more Fit.
These dumb transmissions made the Chrysler a604 look good
0:42 it saying 2013