The power locks on my wife's 2000 Focus wagon have all stopped working, along with the button that controls the rear door. Since I have done a lot of work on cars, I speculated that being the whole system is not getting power, that would indicate that a fuse or relay had failed.The manual shows lots of fuses and relays, but none for the power locks. According to the manual there is a "lock control module" on the back of the fuse panel. I removed it, and it is a black plastic box that says it is a "multifunction control". Now since the whole system does not work for all four side doors, and since the rear gate also works off/with the power lock circuit, I reasoned that the module must have failed. I bought a new one and installed... Nothing changed.. Called service mgr at a dealer and they say have not had other Focus' with this problem, but that anything electrical had to be fused in some way. But there absolutely is no fuse shown among those in owner manual (and these have a lot...) unless it is inside of lock module (and perhaps is a circuit breaker instead of fuse..?). Anyone else had power door lock problems on Fords that resemble our problem? If so, what was determined to be the cause? We cannot open rear gate and all four side doors have to be locked and unlocked individually, so it is a real pain.. Never going to buy another car or truck with electric door locks... Last week my TA locked me out of the car with it's electric locks deciding to lock the doors when I got out of the car to inspect the front license plate....These power accessories are way more trouble than they are worth...
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20 years ago