So I got the call yesterday, and it was not all bad news. It was a costly error on my part not a defect or anything along those lines.
3 Weeks ago I drove through a pretty deep puddle of water when we had those floods in NW Indiana, this caused my right side balast on the HID to go out along with my alternator.
So when I changed out the alternator wich was a major pain in the ass, in the process of puzzling it out I cracked the plastic timing belt cover. So that little cracked piece over time fell into the timing belt causing it to skip 3 teeth and damage all 4 exhaust valves. The pistons are fine and the head is fine. So a costly $1800 mistake on my part.
Im just glad in a weird way that it was me and not a Ford defect cuz I always thought that svt focus motors were built pretty well. By the way I saw the internals and the motor was maintained very well, like the car has 10k on it instead of 55k.
3 Weeks ago I drove through a pretty deep puddle of water when we had those floods in NW Indiana, this caused my right side balast on the HID to go out along with my alternator.
So when I changed out the alternator wich was a major pain in the ass, in the process of puzzling it out I cracked the plastic timing belt cover. So that little cracked piece over time fell into the timing belt causing it to skip 3 teeth and damage all 4 exhaust valves. The pistons are fine and the head is fine. So a costly $1800 mistake on my part.
Im just glad in a weird way that it was me and not a Ford defect cuz I always thought that svt focus motors were built pretty well. By the way I saw the internals and the motor was maintained very well, like the car has 10k on it instead of 55k.
