r/FocusRS

Oil change Sunday.

Looks like it's got the timing cover oil pan gasket leak. ​​

I've owned her for almost two years now and plan on keeping her forever. I’d love to add an Escort Cosworth alongside her one day, nearly bought one before buying the Focus, but for now she has a 2004 Subaru Forester SG9 STI as a stablemate.

Nostalgia plays a huge part in it, couldn’t afford one when they were new but they left a big impression on me. Still remember the Jason Plato and Clarkson reviews and every now and then I rewatch them. Back then I loved the sound they produce and the way they look.

Life happened and I kind of forgot about them, as you don’t see that many on the road where I live.

2 weeks ago, on my way home, one went past me and memories came flooding back. I’ve been browsing carsites for one for the last few days and they’re surprisingly affordable. Bought a scalemodel but that only made things worse.

Now I need a red team, to tell me why I shouldn’t get a real one. Maybe ex-owners can tell me why they got rid of theirs ?

Anyway, thought I’d try this forum as I don’t know a single owner IRL. And I did something similar for other cars that I thought about buying and usually the input is valuable . Thanks in advance.

I’ve change injectors, fuel rail sensor, hpfp sensor, did the pcv plate, changed both o2 sensors with gasket on down pipe, spark plug, coils and also purge valve with charcoal canister in the back…… any other ideas what it could be?

My car was parked on the street. A bus hit a car parked behind me, breaking its mirror. Police arrived, and wrote a protocol about the broken side mirror. My car was not part of the accident, was only "dirty", so police ignored it. My car was dirty, because (not exactly sure what happened - here my assumption only) the window of the bus got shuttered and fall down on my car... Half of the car was covered by shattered glass. The spoiler, back door, rear light, rear bumper, the boot lid and wheel arch get few deeper and a lot of tiny scratches. Luckily police accepted my complaint and added my car to the report. Let's see what the insurance will say 🫣

Guys I’m going insane chasing this. I can’t find a vacuum leak anywhere and I just want to drive my car 😭. On top of this happening I left my passenger side window open during a day long thunderstorm while I was at work.