Used 2010 Ford Focus SES 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M) Consumer Reviews
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Ford Focus SES? mmm..NO
Mike, Olympia, WA, 04/11/2021
Ford Focus SES 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
4 of 8 people found this review helpful
I bought a used 2010 Focus SES with only 38k original miles on it in California in mid 2019 from a private party off CL for $6000. i wasnt looking to buy a Ford focus ever! but i needed a cheap car and this thing just happened to be the best used car for the price at the time i could find in a hurry. Its 2021 now and ive put about 10k miles on it and its been the lower end of a decent car so far. Nothing really great for sure. But, when i bought this car, it had just been sittn in a garage for so many years that when i got to see it and test drive it, i couldnt pass on it. Well, thats not true. I did try to pass on it. But the guy selln it kept lowering the price because he was selln it for the original owner who had a stroke and could no longer drive and just wanted to get rid of this car. This car was like a new car when i bought it. Still had new car smell. Entire vehicle perfect condition no accidents, all service records from Ford. Current registration. No sun damage. Black Interior flawless. Dark gray Paint, factory aluminum rims, Goodyear like new tires flawless. it was a crazy good deal. Anyway, all these reviews ive been reading about how people love this car?! these are obviously NOT people that are into cars or driven really nice automobiles or mechanics. if it werent for this covid crisis that hit the country, i would have sold this car months ago. Ok so the car does what it should right. So ill tell you what problems ive had in 10k miles of use. First of all, motor mount! Thats right 1 motor mount. And upper and lower transmission mounts. If this isnt the WORST design ever. I dont know what is. After i bought this car and put about 500 miles on it of my own it started vibrating like crazy. Right away i knew what was goin on. So i started shopping online for a high quality aftermarket motor mount fix for this vibrating problem and couldnt find one any where. Not Jeggs not Summit not Ford now where. So i bought all 3 of these mounts OEM from Ford and replaced them all myself. It did help but the vibrating is still there ever so slight and you can just tell that due to such a poor design that the problem will be back no doubt. Then theres the lug nut issue. I was going to rotate the tires in driveway and found that no socket i own nor the lug wrench that comes with the car from Ford fit the lug nuts on this completely stock vehicle. I did some research online and found that each one of these stock lug nuts that were on the car have a thin steel jacket covering over them. That over time can accumulate moisture under this covering causing the lug nut to swell. The only way to deal with this is buy a 19.5mm socket or cut this thin steel jacket off each lug nut while still mounted on the car. Then you can get an 18mm socket on them and get these lug nuts off. so i cut off each jacket and bought an aftermarket new set of proper lug nuts for the car. Good thing i never got a flat tire out in the world some where! thanks Ford! not. then, i noticed the paint on these nice stock aluminum rims, just start peeling off in large flakes!? For some unknown reason. I did some research about that and found this was a common problem as well. So ive had to take each wheel off. Sand and repaint myself. the latest thing the car is doing that im going to look into today is rough idle thats been creeping up when im at a stop light or drive through. due to this cars age not miles, its gotta be rotting out vacuum lines. So im gonna take a can of carb cleaner and start sprayn around the engine with it running and try to pin point my leaks. then theres the rattling heat shields for some unknown reason that run along the exhaust system that i need to tend to. I dont know.. ive barely owned this car in excellent condition and its full of problems and i havent even seen what these cars are really known for failing at like ball joints and transmission soleniod problems. Ugh... would i recommend this vehicle, NO. Never. a few more months from now im going to put this car up for sale and be done with it. Some people may like this thing but i know my cars and you can have it and the one ive got to. These way better vehicles in this class. If you have the means, stay away from these cars and go honda or toyota.
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400,000kms and still going
Jay, 01/18/2021
Ford Focus SES 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
2 of 3 people found this review helpful
great car
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Impressed
Robert, 04/14/2010
Ford Focus SES 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
I owned a Ford Focus in 2002 and wasn't that fond of the car. Since then I had all types of performance cars - Nissan 350z, Mustang GT and Charger R/T. I recently traded in the Charger for the Focus SES 4-door and am pleasantly surprised with the engineering. Ford has come a long way with their quality and "WOW factor." We looked at several Japaneses and Korean compacts for fuel efficiency and none compare
Great little car
nrudolph, Corfu, NY, 01/07/2011
Ford Focus SES 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
So I've had my (2011) Focus SES 2.0L/4A since August 20th, and I currently have 7,998 miles on it. My commute is almost all highway, between 60-80 miles a day. I've average 28mpg overall (cruise at 75 on highway)which is about what I expect when you have 4 merges each way, and MPG drops with speed anyway. In 8k miles of driving it hasn't been back to the dealership once. Feels solid driving down the road. Interior is quiet, but not silent, as there is a little bit of road noise, but nothing bad. I have the basic stereo, albeit with sync. Stock speakers aren't bad considering the class of car. Engine has adequate power, transmission does not hunt for gears and shifts smoothly.
Interior doesn't make up for bad drive
Relyat08, 06/06/2010
Ford Focus SES 4dr Sedan (2.0L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
Straight off the lot I realized I had made a mistake. I had hoped Ford could pull off a good car, just this once, but instead I drove off in a lemon. Ever since the purchase I have gotten awful gas mileage, slow and sluggish acceleration, poor handling and all in all a horrible drive. I am sure that a properly made Focus would be fine but mine is constantly having problems. Most recently my sync just stopped working randomly in the middle of a song and switched to AM radio. I never touched a thing. I cringe at the gas station when I get 20 MPG! While driving conservatively. If I was flooring it everywhere I would understand, but I am barely keeping up with traffic and this is what I get.
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