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Originally Posted by eustachio
Thanks for the replies, very helpful.
Re-assuring to hear 2 owners very happy with the engine. A bit less so all the issues suffered by mjcourtney with the car in general. We'd probably go for a 2007/8 model, so perhaps some of the issues were sorted by then?
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Mine was one of the first in the country, Sep 2004, and was one of the first of the 2004.5 (or 2005) models. I think build faults and design problems are to be expected on most early run production cars. It's probably not best to base the overall reliability of these cars on my input for this reason (although the list of failed bits is impressively long...) The new engine is from the 2007 Focus 1.8, and has been no problem at all for the past 30k miles and 4 years.
I've learnt my lesson, won't be buying any car that was made in the first 12 months of a new model release!