Rally Pack 2000

If you are managing a fleet, How often are you doing that?

The mobile mechanic guy did that but nothing came up. I dont think a 2007 Focus has very detailed diagnostics.

Thats a very interesting one! They did fit a kit that had the filter and pan gasket. the kit would have come with a filter O ring but they were so dodgy and slapshot that I wouldnt be surprised if they skipped fitting the O ring

Took my MK2 Focus 2lt Duratec Automatic into to have is rego check and got them to service it at the same time. But they stuffed everything, didnt even top up the coolant. It drove into their workshop fine. They changed the oil and the gasket on the auto transmission pan then returned it to the front carpark from the workshop and it wouldn’t come out of Park again without having to pop open the manual release tab and stick a pen in it. Ever since I have been trying to put it back the way it was before they ruined it. Ive changed the brake switches and checked the solenoid that lets you get it out of park when you put your foot on the brake. Is there anything they may have touched or damaged when taking the Auto Transmission pan off that keeps locking it into park giving me an Auto Transmission malfunction warning? Even a separate home mechanic I called to check it out is at a loss to figure out what was done to it to cause this? Any suggestions would be most welcome

Wow and inside scoop! So how is it? Hard or easy to work on? Are the belts very expensive compared to dry ones? Are there bit sof rubber from the belt in the oil?

The first picture. The Yellow Mk1 RS2000 with orange stripes. 😀

Im a charity case, can I just pick the one I want then? 😜

I am usually insulated from modern car tech given the older style cars I use even for every day transport but this past week from mechanics to newspaper articles I keep hearing scare off warning about wet belt cars which Ford apparently is a big offender. So whats the story on them? I know what they are but I was curious about user experiences and why its so expensive to replace the belts and the damage they cause? Have any members dabbled for their every day road cars?

Oh dear! I see the rotaries (and more importantly hear the vile things) at shows every week. Im my youth as part of an Escort gang they were the local enemy. Mainly the Lebanese boy racer community. You dare not follow one with the flame throwers that shoot out their exhausts, and risk melting your windscreen. What a waste at todays fuel prices! RX4s which were weightier were slower than our 2lt Escorts. The later RX8s were slower than ALL Escorts. With the RX2s and RX3s When I beat them in street drags (There were no Karen criers back then) they would always claim I must have modified my car but I would always let them look it over, all was standard. What they didn’t know is I sort of cheated and always specified a set of lights just before a reasonably steep hill. They have virtually no torque so never were a match for a high torque to weight ratio of the Escort. They never did figure it out! Their shells had no rigidity compared to Escorts and with all their power they had brakes smaller than our Mk1 Escorts. They would wind the things up and never able to stop them afterwards. At shows where I judge they still always give me the Rotary Category. I asked the guy who runs it why do you always give me the Rotaries, I hate the things! He says yes that’s why I give you that group, you're very impartial you hate them all equally! LOL

So you mean this ........... rather than this? But possibly this? 😀

Would have made the corner in a 4 door 🤣

Rare to find honest sellers these days. Are swap donkeys a type of British horse?

The Grump in search of an Escort? That seems the opposite to real life its after the car has bled you dry and loneliness from the family who left you because of your obsession that leads you to becoming the Grump! 😂

Ive been practising a contorted key reach around and switch the engine off with the bonnet up just trying to locate the sound, yes you are right part of the sound is the throttle body but the sound that has lowered its pitch since last week does appear to be the Power Steering pump that is hidden under the drivers side front Guard. The car has a fluid leak and I suspect the lowering of the sound it may require fluid. I can see the cap for the reservoir through a tiny slit in the inner guard but there is no way to check or even reach the cap from above! Why do they design modern cars with even the fluid top ups as inaccessible!

Hmmmm I noticed that really the sound its coming from the front engine bay not behind me where the tank and fuel pump is. Thats got me curious now. In these modern(ish) Fords, what pump or whatever can you hear powering down when you turn off the engine? Google suggested it much be the throttle body actuator? Or possibly the power steering pump?