17 years old and it still looks great. No fancy tech to break, just an honest, simple cheap vehicle. We will all miss the simplicity of these cars soon.
@@johno4377 I had a 2005 Titanium est as a company car, zeons and leather. I did over 190,000 miles in it and it went on to the bosses sister where it had to have a "new" engine at 250,000 because she never checked the oil as by that time it was using about 800 to a pint. Those were happy times in that car.
I think the 1.6 were actually a modified Zetec engine which was belt driven. The larger 1.8 and 2.0 were the Mazda-derived Duratec with chain drive. Confusingly the 1.6 was also renamed Duratec even though it was really a Zetec. And yes, I am fun at parties!!!!
Afaik the mk2 1.6 (the 115bhp version not the 99bhp) had the sigma engine. The 1.6 ecoboost is the turbocharged variant of that. Everyone says zetec... But Ford also conned people by having 'Zetec' as a trim level on its cars, not the 'Zetec' engine. It was clever marketing because even today those who had a Zetec trim, call its engines a Zetec... Which was a very reliable engine, when they didnt!
Yes they did chop and change names!! For example I have 2005 Mondeo with 2.0 Duratec SE (basically Mazda L engine) with Zetec trim! Note Sigma engine is Zetec-S - it was internal Ford name for it@@CrazyInWeston
You are doing a great job helping people keep mobile. Dealers would have crushed it. I run a 2005 Mondeo 2L Zetec petrol estate. No advisories but I have had it 18 years this year . Those Fords are tough but people ignore them.
@@f_2019 Better than spending your money on an expensive depreciating asset. Or even worse, paying interest on a loan for an expensive depreciating asset......
@@ckm-mkcFords are not premium vehicles, but who cares? Cars are designed to go from A to B, it's not a fancy machine on wheels. I would rather spend money on other things
For my money, that was the best generation of focus, had a 57 plate ST, best car I've ever had. Had a mk3 and currently a mk4, but neither touch the old mk2. The current mk4 needs a gearbox at 55k. Well done matt, it scubbed up well
@@teatimetel174I went from a mk1 to a mk2 very disappointed by the mk2. Less features. Worse handling. Lx in the mk1 had alloys and a heated screen. In the mk2 the lx had basic wheel trims no footlights. No heated screen. The mk1 even had some really effective traction control. With on orange light with a picture of wheel with dirt coming off. The mk2 had a red arrow that came up when I red lined the engine.
I had a 2009 ford focus, the facelift to this. I bought it for £1200 at 97k miles and had it for 3 years. It was flawless! I drove it up to 123k and sold it for £1200, just as much as I paid. 3 years after selling it I still occasionally see it on the road today. The mighty 1.6 petrol is clearly going strong still! One correction is that the 1.6p is belt driven as I did get the cambelt replaced on mine. Also the clutch being high I think is just a characteristic of these, I've driven a few and they have all been like that.
This has been use by the AA as a tuition vehicle back in the day. If you look at the bulkhead you'll see two holes where the dual controls were mounted and feel the passenger footwell floor for the outline of the foam padding that had to be removed to install the dual pedals. These cars were all zetec models on GC,GD,GF and GJ regs. I used to be with them back in 2011 and picked my first car up from Hoo In Rochester Kent.
I had one for 8 years and over 410,000km. Utterly amazing car. Bulletproof, comfortable, practical and so much fun to drive. It's the only car I've missed. Were it not for someone ploughing into it at 80kph, I'd have kept it as a second car.
Not true. I bought my 2011 Focus 1.6 ecoboost nearly 4yrs ago and the clutch bite is so low to the floor, hardly need to raise the foot before the 'bite'. A good clutch? Aftermarket clutch? Or an outlier? (Seriously soooo low to the floor and not high at all).
@@CrazyInWeston there are exceptions, but I've gotten 4 fords in my life so far all varying from models and years, and every ford i had, had a high bite point (1 had it's clutch replaced at a ford dealership aka OEM clutch) I've yet to experience a ford with a low bite point. It could be aftermarket or perhaps they lowered the bite point? Or it could be normal from factory.
My grandad brought this car brand new in 2006. Now only 34,000 miles on it! Honestly in mint condition. Serviced every 12 months and very well looked after. He loves it. Always cleaning it when the sun is shining. As they say… look after the car and they will look after you!
Great to see an older car saved from possible scraping. A good solid car. And more environmental friendly to keep an existing car going. Good work sir.
Just doing currency conversion to Australian dollars where I live for price comparison watching these, our used car market is nuts. While there it's going for about $2,000 AU, just a quick search shows similar year and condition Focus models put up for $7,000 - $9,000, or 3700 pounds to 4700 pounds. Making me cry into my cornflakes.
I had an 09 Titanium 2.0 Diesel and it was great, never let me down, cheap to run and comfortable. The saddest day was when it was written off after a head on collision with a bastard joy rider. It saved my life though, all the air bags deployed and even with the gearbox and engine bursting through the dashboard I walked away shaken, stirred, but not scratched. For me the best Focus.
Also in regards to the clutch, the 1.6 has always had a naturally higher bite point. Jay Emm on Cars recently done a video about this as he learnt to drive in one.
I don't think he saved this one. More like extended the palliative care. By the way , here down south its been a really mild winter, be it slightly rainy
ahh man this kind of era of ford was so underrated, fun to drive solid Duratec engines, cheap parts too. I own a mk7 fiesta 1.25 as my first car with 130k on it, solid and reliable.
Hi matt that age of the Ford focus in my opinion are better put together then the newer ones that replaced it all the newer ones are losing their door seals around the bottom nice to see your range rover again hope you are well best wishes ian.
Bird's and cars have been in an constant battle since the invention of the automobile. One time me and my father took our Dacia Logan to the market and parket it under a tree, ten minutes later we returned with a load of bird droppings on the bonnet, roof and the windshield. I looked up to see the pigeon scalleys looking down at us, long story short we cleaned it all off temporarily with a sponge and some water before taking it to the car wash. I'm a first generation Focus fan, they just look better in my opinion than the later generation Focuses.
Here in Australia we get fruit bats and their poo is like the blood of the Alien. It will strip the paint off down to the metal as I have discovered to my cost. 😆
My dads 2007 focus is still strong. 94000 miles. Had some work done on the manifold, and new clutch, suspension. Some parking body damage. passed last MOT no advisories comprehensive service history. worth 500 with the Mot due to scrapes due to on-street and supermarket parking. But drive it every day no worries. Quite a pokie 1.6 for nipping around town. I like it.
my ex wifes first car was a W plate focus that never failed its MOT in the time she had it. when she bought it there were only 60,000 genuine miles, unheard of for such an old but useful car. it mashed up the roads like its more powerful big brother of the same name, that just happened to be a rally car. id never driven one before but can hold my hand firmly on my heart and say it is one of the best cars i have ever driven, certainly down the tight and twisty country roads as if it was on rails. you should easily get what you ask for it, so long as its had a fresh service, and a vac, wash and polish!
I would buy it for a grand. My best friend is an engineer and a senior executive in the car industry who worked with Richard Parry-Jones at one stage (the man who made Fords drive properly back in the 90s) and he is a huge fan of Fords from this era (Mk1 and 2 Focus for example) because Ford really nailed the design and build quality. Other manufacturers in Europe used Ford as the benchmark.
I like seeing the older cars which are cheap. There’s still life left in them, they usually just need some tlc. Be nice to see the journey of some of these cars, some video during the mechanical inspection, then a proper look round the car inside and out once it’s all cleaned.
I've had a 2008 focus for the last 10 years. Family spare runabout at this point. It just keeps going. Apart from servicing/mot etc it's only ever needed a clutch/flywheel at around 80000. Pointless getting rid of it. Maybe I'm lucky lol
I love these. Had several over the years. Comfortable to drive for long distances, they were well built, simple and reliable, (as were a lot of cars from the mid to late noughties,) and capable of huge mileages. My son had a 1.6 petrol estate 2005 vintage. Bought it on around the mileage of this one and took it to nearly 200k before brake system issues killed it off. .
These are brilliant cars Matt, I paid £1500 for one that took me to work and back for 4 years. Cheap for service items and Tyres. Never let me down once. Zetec Engine is superb.
Many years ago I used to have one and drove all it over the UK, these are great cars! My dad still has his 56 plate although it's needed a bit of work recently it's been very reliable, there lovely to drive. I sort of miss mine in a nostalgic way. Well done keeping it going!
Im driving a 07 Focus Ghia. Its so comfy to sit in and has just enough little driver perks to keep me satisfied. Its got about 98k on the clock and has never caused me any issues. I put it through its last MOT and ot passed with no advisories. The only major issue I've got with it is a severe boot leak, which appears to be common on them. Its a typically boring car but i love it!
Love watching/listening to high peak autos videos like this one. When you get something cheap and make it right and worth driving for a few more years. Its regular morning breakfast and coffee viewing for me 😊 keep em coming 😊
I had an 06 1.6 Ghia for 5 years, bought it with 114000 so needed the cambelt doing, the clutch pedal was high and didn't change when I sold it with 153000 miles. Pretty reliable old bus really.
Probably the best engine you could have in a focus the 1.6 zetec/duratec. The only thing i would worry about with one of these is rust everything else will just go forever.
Had one of these, a 2007 zetec also and took it from 75,000 to 150,000 miles and apart from needing a replacement power steering pipe it was faultless. Great cars.
Car doctor/surgeon Matt saves another car's life. You're a man who can save or kill a car at the sweep of your chequebook. Godlike! Keep this up for few more years you could get your knighthood from our new king. You posts just get better.
I love the MK2 Focus, the facelift 2.5 version looks better with the updated headlights in my opinion. They are great cars, we had a 1.6 TDCi - I loved working on it, went to 198k miles on the original clutch, dual mass flywheel, turbo, injectors and HPFP. Only things I ever had to fix were trailing arm bushes, stuck EGR valve, injector seals and the notorious cluster fault.
I bought a 2005 saloon for £250. New thermostat and full service later, she's perfect (mechanically, cosmetically she's beaten up 😂) really dependable. PS, the 1.6 is belt driven
Like a good ford focus, nice and simple car that is nice to drive. Manuals are a joy to use. A rarity now is also they come with a manual handbrake which i prefer over the electronic ones you get nowadays on the majority of newer cars.
Zero depreciation and a reliable car that’s cheap and easy to fix if it goes wrong. This is one of the ways to seriously reduce your transport costs! Yes it looks boring, but it’s unlikely to be stolen or raise the attention of traffic police. A very sensible buy.
I owned a Mk2 Focus Econetic. Bought it on an 09 plate in 2012 and kept it a few years and it never missed a beat. FANTASTIC CAR. Only £30 to tax, 62 + mpg and did over 800 miles to a tank of diesel and it was lovely to drive. God I miss that car.
Decent cars these. I had one a few years back, dull as dishwater, but solid and reliable. As a family car it was perfect. Lots of room and a decent boot. Nice to see this one get a new lease of life.
Glad you did some work on it. Love the fact you parked up to use the calculator on your phone, but you drove off after going through the mechanic's list 🤣🤣I wondered why you didn't check the engine bay out as normal
I had one of these. Flipping loved it. Mine was a titanium spec in black, the 1.8 petrol. Full black leather interior, heated seats. Sold it far too cheaply with 113k on the clock. Only real big bill was an ECU that needed sorting at a main dealer 😢
They're the labrador dog of the car world. Absolutely everyone could survive with a Focus. My daughter wants one when she passes her test. At least i won't have to sell a kidney.
I still have one of these but a 1.8 TDCi Style with 137,000 miles. Pretty solid cars and cheap to fix when they do need something. Bought mine for £1500 in 2018 and besides the usual consumables it hasn't needed much. Coincidentally mine also has two Avon front tyres but Apollo's on the back and the AC (which still works) has the button worn off just the same as this one.
I nearly bought one almost identical to that with fsh about 10 years ago. I was young and stupid at the time. A same age but higher mileage, no history 2.0 titanium came up for the same money, so I bought that instead. Turned out to be a lemon and I should have bought the 1.6 zetec instead. Still I learnt a valuable life lesson.
My sister had a 2004 gun metal titanium with leather seats it was a 2 door to from new, never had a problem and she only exchanged it 6 years ago only did 68k
That's funny. I have a. mk 2,5 2.0 Zetec, and it's never really gone wrong, apart from a wheel bearing and a drive shaft bearing. Done about 126,000 miles and still going strong
I've just got rid of a 1.6 2009 focus estate. Leaked like a sieve, rusted like mad, slow and like to drink petrol. It allso liked to use a bit of oil. It drove ok though.
Thanks for that great video Matt. The Ford Focus. The car you can always rely on. The car you'd recommend to a friend. A few years ago, someone I know was selling their 1995 Toyota Starlet. I advised them to get a Focus, and they a 2007 one, and love it. I was waiting for a bus last year and saw a 2008 focus that looked in excellent condition. Before that I saw another Focus in very good condition, year. 2000. That got me even more interested in the focus because it told me because I worked out that one could get a 2007 to 2010 focus, look after it very well and get ten good years out of it. I don't no why Ford didn't do this in England, but here in Ireland, the smallest size engine is 1.4. The only car that size that started off as a 1.6 here was the Audi A3, and 1 series BMW.
My daily driver is an equivalent of this car: Mazda 3 from the same year, but with an undestroyable 1.6 diesel, and still in use without big maintenance interceptions, I can say the best car that I've driven so far
Had the same model and car would misfire , under closer inspection I noticed there was water in the spark plugs , cause ! The jet washers are above the spark plugs and leak done onto them
Yay, snap! Have owned my 1.6 Mk2, same colour & spec for 7 1/2 years; FSH, now up to 88k, exactly double the mileage when purchased. Struggles on hills but a superb all rounder, it'll be a hell of a job to replace it.
If you ever get a random misfire on the 1.6 after it’s been raining or just washed, it’ll be the washer jets that have come away from under the bonnet and water dripping onto the plugs.
Had that with mine where the clip for the washer jet broke. Caught it before any misfires thankfully and only cost me a trip to the breakers for a new washer jet of which they gave me for free.
Focus Mk.2 is a decent car, partly because it was built to (almost) Volvo standards, albeit from cheaper materials. Volvo was part of Ford at that time and Ford has enough sense to adopt some Volvo quality control processes while not imposing on Volvo too many cheap parts like GM did with Saab.
I didn't know that. I do know Ford acquired Jaguar/ Landrover and Volvo for some time but... Shame Ford let them go, those car companies don't produce great cars anymore not reliable anyway.
A mate of mine has one of these, a black diesel 1.6 I think. He paid pittance for it then had to fork out £350 recently so it passed its MOT. It leaks water in from a rust spot above the windscreen. It’s constantly steamed up 😂 I think these are sat on a Volvo C30 platform too.
I had a Focus estate 1.6 petrol when I lived in the Netherlands. It had done 180000km when I bought it and I put another 50000km on it. Never missed a beat
![2007 Ford Focus MK2 1.6 100hp (74kW) POV 4K [Test Drive Hero] #88 ACCELERATION ELASTICITY & DYNAMIC](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lOyc3odnRCE/mqdefault.jpg)
17 years old and it still looks great. No fancy tech to break, just an honest, simple cheap vehicle.
We will all miss the simplicity of these cars soon.
I won't 😝 I'll drive my 05 Civic until the end of my days 😅
Still driving an oldie and just sold my 37k from new '93 MK1 Mondy estate! No duct tape either 😊
How much did you get for it, if one may ask?
It has lots of fancy tech, just less than cars of today.
Its a ford, they are junk quality. Admittely they built them ok back 20 years ago. So many issues.. same as vauxhall. They cost out a lot of parts.
Still running a 2005, 1.6 auto brought from new. No dramas, easy to drive and to work on. Love it!
I have a 2005, 1.6 auto too, I agree, brilliant cars.
@@johno4377 I had a 2005 Titanium est as a company car, zeons and leather. I did over 190,000 miles in it and it went on to the bosses sister where it had to have a "new" engine at 250,000 because she never checked the oil as by that time it was using about 800 to a pint. Those were happy times in that car.
wife has 55 plate 1.6 ti ghia. 125000. new coil pack, new heater hose. new wing where she bumped it. Mk2 Focus, best car ever.
Got a 2005 2.0 diesel and its still great (147,500 miles).
I still run my dad's 2004 auto mk 1!! Can't bare to part with it❤
Finally, a car that most your viewers can actually afford to buy lol.
I mean most of Matt's videos cover cars that people can buy
Wdym? Almost every video is cheap cars
No one is broke enough to buy a £400 car
If you only got 400 for a car I don’t think you should be driving😂
That doesn’t make sense
I think the 1.6 were actually a modified Zetec engine which was belt driven. The larger 1.8 and 2.0 were the Mazda-derived Duratec with chain drive. Confusingly the 1.6 was also renamed Duratec even though it was really a Zetec. And yes, I am fun at parties!!!!
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Afaik the mk2 1.6 (the 115bhp version not the 99bhp) had the sigma engine. The 1.6 ecoboost is the turbocharged variant of that.
Everyone says zetec... But Ford also conned people by having 'Zetec' as a trim level on its cars, not the 'Zetec' engine. It was clever marketing because even today those who had a Zetec trim, call its engines a Zetec... Which was a very reliable engine, when they didnt!
Yes they did chop and change names!! For example I have 2005 Mondeo with 2.0 Duratec SE (basically Mazda L engine) with Zetec trim! Note Sigma engine is Zetec-S - it was internal Ford name for it@@CrazyInWeston
Bullsheet, all have a timing belt.
@@gavarochevaro2229 Duratec HE is a chain engine. Zetec/Zetec-SE (Sigma) is belt.
I love an old focus reliable and cheap to fix.
People who talk about the weather are just sad, says the man who remembers old car registrations, and car colour names 😊
You’re a good man Matt. Something for all budgets on your channel.
You are doing a great job helping people keep mobile. Dealers would have crushed it. I run a 2005 Mondeo 2L Zetec petrol estate. No advisories but I have had it 18 years this year . Those Fords are tough but people ignore them.
@@f_2019 Better than spending your money on an expensive depreciating asset. Or even worse, paying interest on a loan for an expensive depreciating asset......
@@ckm-mkcFords are not premium vehicles, but who cares? Cars are designed to go from A to B, it's not a fancy machine on wheels. I would rather spend money on other things
For my money, that was the best generation of focus, had a 57 plate ST, best car I've ever had. Had a mk3 and currently a mk4, but neither touch the old mk2. The current mk4 needs a gearbox at 55k.
Well done matt, it scubbed up well
mk1 the best in my opinion and the one thats gonna be worth good money.
@@teatimetel174I went from a mk1 to a mk2 very disappointed by the mk2. Less features. Worse handling. Lx in the mk1 had alloys and a heated screen. In the mk2 the lx had basic wheel trims no footlights. No heated screen. The mk1 even had some really effective traction control. With on orange light with a picture of wheel with dirt coming off. The mk2 had a red arrow that came up when I red lined the engine.
@@teatimetel174Mk1 St was a dog to drive
@@oWR3CKL3Zzo must of not been set up right..of suspension off it won't
I had a 2009 ford focus, the facelift to this. I bought it for £1200 at 97k miles and had it for 3 years. It was flawless! I drove it up to 123k and sold it for £1200, just as much as I paid. 3 years after selling it I still occasionally see it on the road today. The mighty 1.6 petrol is clearly going strong still!
One correction is that the 1.6p is belt driven as I did get the cambelt replaced on mine. Also the clutch being high I think is just a characteristic of these, I've driven a few and they have all been like that.
may I ask, what mpg do you manage? thanks
I have this model right now and you are correct about the belt and clutch
@@TheOwlsarewatching606 i think I averaged around 36 MPG for urban and a motorway combined. Not the best, but it was okay.
This has been use by the AA as a tuition vehicle back in the day. If you look at the bulkhead you'll see two holes where the dual controls were mounted and feel the passenger footwell floor for the outline of the foam padding that had to be removed to install the dual pedals. These cars were all zetec models on GC,GD,GF and GJ regs. I used to be with them back in 2011 and picked my first car up from Hoo In Rochester Kent.
I had one for 8 years and over 410,000km. Utterly amazing car. Bulletproof, comfortable, practical and so much fun to drive. It's the only car I've missed. Were it not for someone ploughing into it at 80kph, I'd have kept it as a second car.
Clutches in all ford focus cars are high up the pedal, doesn't necessarily mean they are worn to the point of nearly slipping :)
Not true. I bought my 2011 Focus 1.6 ecoboost nearly 4yrs ago and the clutch bite is so low to the floor, hardly need to raise the foot before the 'bite'. A good clutch? Aftermarket clutch? Or an outlier? (Seriously soooo low to the floor and not high at all).
@@CrazyInWeston there are exceptions, but I've gotten 4 fords in my life so far all varying from models and years, and every ford i had, had a high bite point (1 had it's clutch replaced at a ford dealership aka OEM clutch) I've yet to experience a ford with a low bite point.
It could be aftermarket or perhaps they lowered the bite point? Or it could be normal from factory.
My grandad brought this car brand new in 2006. Now only 34,000 miles on it! Honestly in mint condition. Serviced every 12 months and very well looked after. He loves it. Always cleaning it when the sun is shining. As they say… look after the car and they will look after you!
34,000 miles is very low. Love it when people clean their cars, shows they care
Great to see an older car saved from possible scraping. A good solid car. And more environmental friendly to keep an existing car going. Good work sir.
"Oh boy..." That said it all... but not a disaster! Well done
Yup
How do people live so much dog or cat hair. Get a vacuum cleaner. Geeze.
animal owners are fucking disgusting@@MattExzy
Just doing currency conversion to Australian dollars where I live for price comparison watching these, our used car market is nuts. While there it's going for about $2,000 AU, just a quick search shows similar year and condition Focus models put up for $7,000 - $9,000, or 3700 pounds to 4700 pounds. Making me cry into my cornflakes.
Australia is just a machine designed to strip working people of their wages as efficiently as possible for the minimum in exchange 🤣.
Yeah you can't even buy a bush basher girl that money in Australia 😂
Sounds like it might be cost effective to import a UK car to Aus!
@@dimuthujayawardana61 to many rules and would tax you on it anyhow.
UK prices are insanely low for old cars. Like doesn’t make any sense level low.
This is so much better than any cheap VW group product
Still a nice car
£995 gives someone a fantastic handler that might enthuse petrol headism….for life 💙
I had an 09 Titanium 2.0 Diesel and it was great, never let me down, cheap to run and comfortable. The saddest day was when it was written off after a head on collision with a bastard joy rider. It saved my life though, all the air bags deployed and even with the gearbox and engine bursting through the dashboard I walked away shaken, stirred, but not scratched. For me the best Focus.
Also in regards to the clutch, the 1.6 has always had a naturally higher bite point. Jay Emm on Cars recently done a video about this as he learnt to drive in one.
"thats what my gut tells me, and when has that ever steered me wrong." 🤣😂
Hi matt, the wee focus cleaned up well, from marty in Belfast northern Ireland God bless
Absolutely love the cheap car videos!! Brilliant and saved another car! Great video 😊
I don't think he saved this one. More like extended the palliative care.
By the way , here down south its been a really mild winter, be it slightly rainy
‘Good for a young bloke who is enthusiastic and handy on the tools. The world needs starter cars like this. Good review, Matt, thankyou
ahh man this kind of era of ford was so underrated, fun to drive solid Duratec engines, cheap parts too. I own a mk7 fiesta 1.25 as my first car with 130k on it, solid and reliable.
Hi matt that age of the Ford focus in my opinion are better put together then the newer ones that replaced it all the newer ones are losing their door seals around the bottom nice to see your range rover again hope you are well best wishes ian.
You see them everywhere flapping in the wind, the owners not giving a stuff. It would do my head in.😂
@majorminor3367 Ford must know about them but did nothing
Ford build quality is a bit iffy
@@Matty12333did really go down hill on the mk3 focus and mk 5 mondeo.
Bird's and cars have been in an constant battle since the invention of the automobile. One time me and my father took our Dacia Logan to the market and parket it under a tree, ten minutes later we returned with a load of bird droppings on the bonnet, roof and the windshield. I looked up to see the pigeon scalleys looking down at us, long story short we cleaned it all off temporarily with a sponge and some water before taking it to the car wash.
I'm a first generation Focus fan, they just look better in my opinion than the later generation Focuses.
Here in Australia we get fruit bats and their poo is like the blood of the Alien. It will strip the paint off down to the metal as I have discovered to my cost. 😆
1.6 is belt not chain Matt. Still a good engine
My dads 2007 focus is still strong. 94000 miles. Had some work done on the manifold, and new clutch, suspension. Some parking body damage. passed last MOT no advisories comprehensive service history. worth 500 with the Mot due to scrapes due to on-street and supermarket parking. But drive it every day no worries. Quite a pokie 1.6 for nipping around town. I like it.
my ex wifes first car was a W plate focus that never failed its MOT in the time she had it. when she bought it there were only 60,000 genuine miles, unheard of for such an old but useful car. it mashed up the roads like its more powerful big brother of the same name, that just happened to be a rally car. id never driven one before but can hold my hand firmly on my heart and say it is one of the best cars i have ever driven, certainly down the tight and twisty country roads as if it was on rails. you should easily get what you ask for it, so long as its had a fresh service, and a vac, wash and polish!
you also make me feel really old when you say you passed your test in 06. i took my test in 83 (whilst in the army).
Blimey, I've got T-Shirts older than that!😉...Took mine in 66. @@random-person1
I would buy it for a grand. My best friend is an engineer and a senior executive in the car industry who worked with Richard Parry-Jones at one stage (the man who made Fords drive properly back in the 90s) and he is a huge fan of Fords from this era (Mk1 and 2 Focus for example) because Ford really nailed the design and build quality. Other manufacturers in Europe used Ford as the benchmark.
I like seeing the older cars which are cheap. There’s still life left in them, they usually just need some tlc.
Be nice to see the journey of some of these cars, some video during the mechanical inspection, then a proper look round the car inside and out once it’s all cleaned.
I've had a 2008 focus for the last 10 years. Family spare runabout at this point. It just keeps going. Apart from servicing/mot etc it's only ever needed a clutch/flywheel at around 80000. Pointless getting rid of it. Maybe I'm lucky lol
I love these. Had several over the years. Comfortable to drive for long distances, they were well built, simple and reliable, (as were a lot of cars from the mid to late noughties,) and capable of huge mileages. My son had a 1.6 petrol estate 2005 vintage. Bought it on around the mileage of this one and took it to nearly 200k before brake system issues killed it off. .
These are brilliant cars Matt, I paid £1500 for one that took me to work and back for 4 years. Cheap for service items and Tyres. Never let me down once. Zetec Engine is superb.
That piticular model is a UK special. Ford should bring it back for you.
This is off topic Matt…. I love the interior color of your SUV!!!!! That shade of green is just freaking awesome
Hard to believe it's 17 years old! Feels like yesterday when they came out
These cars make for such great value for money, cheap to maintain/repair, cheap to buy and fairly reliable - not to mention how practical they are!
Many years ago I used to have one and drove all it over the UK, these are great cars! My dad still has his 56 plate although it's needed a bit of work recently it's been very reliable, there lovely to drive. I sort of miss mine in a nostalgic way. Well done keeping it going!
Love these "I bought a cheap" videos. Average blokes like me can relate more instead of these top of the range supercar vids. Keep em coming 😁
Great save, too many older cars are ovelooked
Bought my son one with 65K on it 3 years ago and it has been as reliable as a new car and he drives all over the place in it with no trouble
Ironically, in my neck of the woods the weather is sunny and quite nice; though freezing cold. It's good looking-out-the-window weather.
Im driving a 07 Focus Ghia. Its so comfy to sit in and has just enough little driver perks to keep me satisfied. Its got about 98k on the clock and has never caused me any issues. I put it through its last MOT and ot passed with no advisories.
The only major issue I've got with it is a severe boot leak, which appears to be common on them.
Its a typically boring car but i love it!
Love watching/listening to high peak autos videos like this one. When you get something cheap and make it right and worth driving for a few more years. Its regular morning breakfast and coffee viewing for me 😊 keep em coming 😊
I had an 06 1.6 Ghia for 5 years, bought it with 114000 so needed the cambelt doing, the clutch pedal was high and didn't change when I sold it with 153000 miles. Pretty reliable old bus really.
Probably the best engine you could have in a focus the 1.6 zetec/duratec. The only thing i would worry about with one of these is rust everything else will just go forever.
It just needs a quick buff & a set of plates.
Just sold our one, had it 14 years and it’s been brilliant throughout ownership
Great cars these were a massive step up from the MK1 in terms of quality 😁
I know it’s a running theme here, but I’m still amazed by how cheap secondhand cars are in England compared to Spain
Had one of these, a 2007 zetec also and took it from 75,000 to 150,000 miles and apart from needing a replacement power steering pipe it was faultless. Great cars.
This is the type of car that would limp through an mot every year, used to see loads of these when was kid brilliant cars back in the day.
Car doctor/surgeon Matt saves another car's life. You're a man who can save or kill a car at the sweep of your chequebook. Godlike! Keep this up for few more years you could get your knighthood from our new king. You posts just get better.
I like the Mk2 Focus styling, nice timeless model. Perfect for anonymous daily motoring with good roadholding
Just bought an identical one myself, same colour and year, fingers crossed it'll be a "good un" helpful vids, thanks 👍
I love the MK2 Focus, the facelift 2.5 version looks better with the updated headlights in my opinion. They are great cars, we had a 1.6 TDCi - I loved working on it, went to 198k miles on the original clutch, dual mass flywheel, turbo, injectors and HPFP.
Only things I ever had to fix were trailing arm bushes, stuck EGR valve, injector seals and the notorious cluster fault.
I bought a 2005 saloon for £250. New thermostat and full service later, she's perfect (mechanically, cosmetically she's beaten up 😂) really dependable. PS, the 1.6 is belt driven
Like a good ford focus, nice and simple car that is nice to drive. Manuals are a joy to use. A rarity now is also they come with a manual handbrake which i prefer over the electronic ones you get nowadays on the majority of newer cars.
Looks super for just a wash and vacuum; this generation of Fords' were really good pieces of kit !!
Zero depreciation and a reliable car that’s cheap and easy to fix if it goes wrong. This is one of the ways to seriously reduce your transport costs! Yes it looks boring, but it’s unlikely to be stolen or raise the attention of traffic police. A very sensible buy.
Just ensure it's serviced and it will go on for a while yet
I owned a Mk2 Focus Econetic. Bought it on an 09 plate in 2012 and kept it a few years and it never missed a beat. FANTASTIC CAR. Only £30 to tax, 62 + mpg and did over 800 miles to a tank of diesel and it was lovely to drive. God I miss that car.
For a grand that is a bargain motor Matt that could do someone another 2 or 3 years with a bit of careful ownership I think
Decent cars these. I had one a few years back, dull as dishwater, but solid and reliable. As a family car it was perfect. Lots of room and a decent boot. Nice to see this one get a new lease of life.
Love the content Matt. Great to have a cuppa and kit kat while watching your processes and over spending 😊
Love those early Focuses. Have to say Matt, the cheaper the car , the more interesting the video!
Always think you check oil and water levels first before you start the engine on such an old car Matt
Another enjoyable video Matt!
Your approach is great and the car still has life in it. Well done 👏
Glad you did some work on it. Love the fact you parked up to use the calculator on your phone, but you drove off after going through the mechanic's list 🤣🤣I wondered why you didn't check the engine bay out as normal
I had one of these. Flipping loved it. Mine was a titanium spec in black, the 1.8 petrol. Full black leather interior, heated seats. Sold it far too cheaply with 113k on the clock. Only real big bill was an ECU that needed sorting at a main dealer 😢
They're the labrador dog of the car world. Absolutely everyone could survive with a Focus. My daughter wants one when she passes her test. At least i won't have to sell a kidney.
I always love it when you do the videos on the really cheap cars as there is always more to do with it :)
This is trippy. I'm selling a 2007 Ford Focus Titanium 2.0 duratec petrol very soon and this video comes up on the same year of car 😂
I daily drive a 1.8 petrol duratec lets goooooo
love the mk2 focus
I still have one of these but a 1.8 TDCi Style with 137,000 miles. Pretty solid cars and cheap to fix when they do need something. Bought mine for £1500 in 2018 and besides the usual consumables it hasn't needed much. Coincidentally mine also has two Avon front tyres but Apollo's on the back and the AC (which still works) has the button worn off just the same as this one.
I nearly bought one almost identical to that with fsh about 10 years ago. I was young and stupid at the time. A same age but higher mileage, no history 2.0 titanium came up for the same money, so I bought that instead. Turned out to be a lemon and I should have bought the 1.6 zetec instead. Still I learnt a valuable life lesson.
A high clutch isn't an issue. Hydraulic clutches adjust. The biting point won't get higher.
I had a 2007 estate version of this from 2009 to 2014. Really good to drive and a simple, reliable car.
i do like this era of Focus, especially the ST version, what a car that is
My mother’s old 57 focus still running strong.
My sister had a 2004 gun metal titanium with leather seats it was a 2 door to from new, never had a problem and she only exchanged it 6 years ago only did 68k
Had a Mk2.5 1.6 Zetec.
Chocolate box of a thing, never right from the day I got it, and by the end, it was only fit for scrap!
That's funny. I have a. mk 2,5 2.0 Zetec, and it's never really gone wrong, apart from a wheel bearing and a drive shaft bearing. Done about 126,000 miles and still going strong
I've just got rid of a 1.6 2009 focus estate. Leaked like a sieve, rusted like mad, slow and like to drink petrol. It allso liked to use a bit of oil.
It drove ok though.
Thanks for that great video Matt. The Ford Focus. The car you can always rely on. The car you'd recommend to a friend. A few years ago, someone I know was selling their 1995 Toyota Starlet. I advised them to get a Focus, and they a 2007 one, and love it. I was waiting for a bus last year and saw a 2008 focus that looked in excellent condition. Before that I saw another Focus in very good condition, year. 2000. That got me even more interested in the focus because it told me because I worked out that one could get a 2007 to 2010 focus, look after it very well and get ten good years out of it. I don't no why Ford didn't do this in England, but here in Ireland, the smallest size engine is 1.4. The only car that size that started off as a 1.6 here was the Audi A3, and 1 series BMW.
This is a good, tidy car for anyone at minimal cost. Could be made almost mint with a little extra effort. Nice one.
The clutch is always high on the 1.6 petrol Focus MK2, even when new.
My daily driver is an equivalent of this car: Mazda 3 from the same year, but with an undestroyable 1.6 diesel, and still in use without big maintenance interceptions, I can say the best car that I've driven so far
Nice subtle partridge reference
Had the same model and car would misfire , under closer inspection I noticed there was water in the spark plugs , cause ! The jet washers are above the spark plugs and leak done onto them
Yay, snap! Have owned my 1.6 Mk2, same colour & spec for 7 1/2 years; FSH, now up to 88k, exactly double the mileage when purchased. Struggles on hills but a superb all rounder, it'll be a hell of a job to replace it.
I do love how focuses drive it's fun with a good compromise in comfort
If you ever get a random misfire on the 1.6 after it’s been raining or just washed, it’ll be the washer jets that have come away from under the bonnet and water dripping onto the plugs.
Had that with mine where the clip for the washer jet broke. Caught it before any misfires thankfully and only cost me a trip to the breakers for a new washer jet of which they gave me for free.
I love of the interior in that Range Rover the colour is gorgeous and classic looking, oh yeah that focus is a focus 😊. Enjoyable video as usual.
Well done Mat, you are showing people what can be done on a budget, not everyone has big money,, many thanks Michael 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Focus Mk.2 is a decent car, partly because it was built to (almost) Volvo standards, albeit from cheaper materials. Volvo was part of Ford at that time and Ford has enough sense to adopt some Volvo quality control processes while not imposing on Volvo too many cheap parts like GM did with Saab.
I didn't know that. I do know Ford acquired Jaguar/ Landrover and Volvo for some time but...
Shame Ford let them go, those car companies don't produce great cars anymore not reliable anyway.
The key with no remote is to unlock the bonnet . I have a CMAX which is based on the focus
A mate of mine has one of these, a black diesel 1.6 I think. He paid pittance for it then had to fork out £350 recently so it passed its MOT.
It leaks water in from a rust spot above the windscreen. It’s constantly steamed up 😂
I think these are sat on a Volvo C30 platform too.
I had a Focus estate 1.6 petrol when I lived in the Netherlands. It had done 180000km when I bought it and I put another 50000km on it. Never missed a beat
This era of focus mk2 was very well built to be honest strong body too on them