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08-02-2007, 09:31 AM
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Starter Motor
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Driving my new '06 focus the other day and managed to pick up a KEY thru a rear tyre. Put a decent tear in it and rapidly deflated . My CL with smooth pack runs Goodyear 195/65 NCT5 tyres. Put on the space saver thinking a matching new tyre would be easy enough to aquire. WRONG !
Went to three different tyre places to find this is not a common tyre and seems peculiar to Ford and would take four weeks to get one in from down south (I am in Brisbane). Who wants to drive on a space saver for four weeks. The third place made a call and tracked one down at a fourth place (Bob Jane)that had been ordered in for another Focus driver who had renegged; probably at the price of $160. Any way the new tyre is on but am dismayed by turn of events. If it happens again Iguess I try to find something comparable in another perhaps cheaper brand. This car while nice to drive is turning out to be more expensive to run than I thought (have to use 95 RON also). Sooo watch out if you get a puncture. |
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Tyre Trouble
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