This morning when I started the car, there was a warning light left illuminated on the dashboard. Needless to say the icon was a bit obtuse, at a guess I thought it might be something to do with the brake lights, as it looked a bit like a cross between a bulb and the hand [...]

When the reminder that our Focus needed servicing a couple of weeks ago, we found out that our local Ford dealership which was Reg Vardy had now become Evans Halshaw following their merger with Pendragon PLC. It doesn’t seem to have made that much of a difference.
The car was in for it’s MOT and service. [...]

So after my discovery of another blown bulb at the beginning of the week, today the Focus went back into Reg Vardy for the second week in succession.
Unfortunately, it was confirmed as another blown bulb, again necessitating major surgery to the front of the car to change it. However, unlike last week, when it came [...]

So having paid £32 for Reg Vardy to change the headlamp bulb on the Focus on Saturday, I checked out the lights when I put the car away tonight. However the pattern of the lights looked wrong. Taking a look at the light, although the main bulb was replaced and working, now the side light [...]

This weekend we’ve had a couple of repairs.
Firstly there was the Focus Bulb change, which started off somewhat stressful when we arrived at the dealer to be told that they were only planning to asses the work that was needed, not actually do it. At this point I said that I had told them [...]

You may remember my rant two years ago about the idiotic design of the headlamp cluster on the old style Ford Focus – the article is by far the most popular on the site, and still gets comments two years later.
The bulb, following on from the fragile windscreens (the Focus currently has it’s fifth windscreen), [...]

Almost as much fun as watching paint dry!

It’s wet, so no new windscreen.

Focus windscreen count 5

Cost of the headlight bulb replacement for the Ford Focus.

The joys of replacing a headlight bulb on a Ford Focus

Am I getting obsessively paranoid over the car, or is this just the way it’s supposed to drive?

A thrill packed morning with a flat tyre