This Ford Focus has many of the usual leaks we expect to find on a Focus, lots of rain water leaking into the boot, plus a leaking windscreen.
The rear air vents are leaking, and we show this on many other videos, so if you want more details go look out our Ford playlist. James demonstrates how the foam sound insulation inserts are soaked in water, and you can see black mould spores.
Solution: This car will have to go off to a screen company to have the screen refitted properly. As per usual, we will replace the rear air vents, and we will also get a replacement door rubber for the passenger side. We often refurbish rubbers, but this one is particularly badly distorted.
The cracking of the sealant around the door hinges can be fixed by resealing them, although we will have to take the roof runners out to do this properly. With all this done, the car can be dried out.
Up to a third of the cost of your car was computers, processors and sensors. Delicate electrical systems hidden under your carpets, which might now be sitting in water.
Question: "I see you do a lot of Ford Focus. I have just about had enough of Ford, is it even worth doing?"
Answer: We do a lot of Fords, but there are a lot of them about. We also do a lot of Golfs for much the same reason, and they suffer many of the same problems. Of the cars that make us roll our eyes, I probably wouldn't put a Ford Focus in the top five.
You had a rain water leak in your car, and you got it fixed. What next? It will dry out on its own right? Maybe you can just vacuum the carpets, and it will dry?
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This car came to us with a suspected rain water leak, there were wet carpets and water on some of the door shuts. We performed our water leak detection inspection and found the source of the leaks.
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The main problem with this car is the rear air vents, which is common on all cars of this age. We recommend replacing the vents with new ones and sealing them properly into place.
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This Ford S-Max has water in the front footwell, with wet carpets, which has led to black mould.We found evidence of previous repair in the front, where somebody had sealed over a welded seam.
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In this video, James shows us that the rubbers have come loose from the bottoms of the rear doors and that the door membrane are beginning to fail.
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We don't always get it right first time and sometimes after we have repaired a leak, a car will come back with water in it.
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You can see in this video that the water in the car has caused rust. Rust causes more rust, so having rusty water sloshing around in your car is not good.
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