Thanks folks - the Mk 1 is that the model with the more triangular shaped lights on the rear hatch area?
Many thanks for your loads of useful info - now I'll wander off and investigate local Foci.. drove one last weekend and it seemed very nice 04 model but seemed overpriced, so I'm still lurking and looking.
ISTR the service guide was generic and covered all Ford models of the era. Ford usually referred to the silvertop as the Zetec, the blacktop as the Zetec E and the Yamaha designed engines as the Zetec SE.
I'm sure the Zetec E blacktop was always 100k/10 years. One of the differences between the silvertop and the blacktop was a revised cambelt routing.
In your book, does the zetec 80k entry say 5 years or 8 years?
Purely out of interest, what is your source of information? Only the service book that came with my Focus quite clearly lists the E as being 8 years, and the SE as 10. Are you saying that it was wrong when printed?
It is a Ford Direct. It was a Hertz car for 3-4 months, when it accummulated 10K miles. I think it was then stored for time to catch up and sold through the Ford Direct scheme when it was 12 months old.
You would be surprised: it had the additional A/C and safety pack (ABS et al) *because* it was a rental car. And to me, these are the things that matter, not big fat wheels and wood trim on a mid-range, family hatch.
My MK3 Mondeo (1.8 5D, Zetec Sat Nav) was a Ford Direct ex-rental.
Bought 9 months old at 11,000 miles, my only grouch was that it should have been serviced before sale. The oil clearly hadn't been changed and I went back and insisted it be done, which they agreed reluctantly and in a patronising manner. "Oh well, just to make you happy"...
I've just bought a Mk1 (2001) Ford Focus metallic silver estate 2.0 (Zetec black) engine, very pleased with the car (it replaced my old 1.8 escort estate)
My Focus specification; one owner since new, 40,000 genuine miles, full Ford dealer service history, new tyres 205/50 on "16" alloys, sports suspension, AC, ABS, Traction control, twelve months warrantee, heated screens and mirrors, CD with radio remote control, electric windows.
I think I got a reasonable deal even though I bought the car from a Ford main dealer for just over £3000 ukp, perhaps a little more than I would from a private sale..
The road holding is superb, just like driving on rails with the bigger tyres and beefed up suspension, even for an old codger like me ;)
I've seen some really weirdly specced rental cars though. One hire company I worked for had around 20 'S' reg Focus 1.8 Zetecs with all the toys, but no passenger airbags - even though the Focus has always officially had twin airbags.
I've also driven Avis 1.0 Corsas (as in the original Corsa) with A/C... flicking on the AC nearly stood it on its nose.
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