Why does my car idle rough? And shake worse when the A/C is on?
I have a 2006 Ford Focus ZX4 SE. It has almost 80,000 miles on it. I've been having this problem for roughly 10,000 miles. I did have several broken motor mounts repaired a couple months ago, which took care of the general shaking, but now it has made
The PCV hose in the Focus loves to split where it makes a 90 degree bend near the intake. That creates a variable vacuum leak that can drive you crazy. The hose is located on the back side of the intake plenum - reach behind the engine from the top with
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Back in 2000, the year that the Ford Focus was introduced, Ford Motor Company was hoping that the model would be well received and exceed the sales totals of its previous small car, the Escort. Unfortunately, the new Focus was plagued by various minor quality problems and the car soon became the joke of the industry
If you havent thrown out your copies of The Washington Post this week yet, dont.If ever there was a reason for newspapers to survive their economic tsunami, Mondays edition was it.On Monday, The Post began a three-day series on the top-secret world our national government has built up since Sept. 11, 2001. It says this network has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how...