Rust on 2008 Focus

[zetec]

Washing my car today I noticed 2 tiny areas of rust, in the area of the bottom of the rear screen/tailgate.

I always wash my own car for this very reason, so I notice early.

I am sure my vehicle has a 6 year anti perforation warranty, I bought my vehicle from a Ford dealership 4 years ago as an approved used vehicle.

Not long after I got this car it was vandalised pretty badly and needed pretty much a full respray. The company that did the repair gave a 5 year warranty on their paintwork.

Is it worth me going to Ford or the Bodyshop?

Many thanks

[Turbofocus]

You say the company that resprayed it.
I take it then that it was not a ford dealership that did the respray.

If so then I doubt ford would touch it.

My experiance has been that the paintwork has to be original and that your service book has to have all the ford body checks carried out and stamped each year.

[JackP1]

The paintwork would have to be original yes, i would be back to the bodyshop if it still have remaining warranty held on the vehicle

[zetec]

Thanks for the replies.

Bodyshop it is, it was the insurance approved bodyshop that did the works.

Just worries me now that if it's started appearing, where else is it going to show it's ugly head.

[thebigmacmoomin]

Turbofocus said:

your service book has to have all the ford body checks carried out and stamped each year.

If you don't have the paint checks in the service book, Ford wont do anything.

Mine '07 Mk2 Focus had rust on the inside of the boot, where the rear washer pipe rubs the body. Ford painted it & put the clear 'sticker' over it like they did on later models.

[sradmarty]

I've not long got rid of my 08 focus and a couple of places that were bad was the front of the cill where it meets the wing and the front edge of the rear wheel arch where it meets the door. Seen a few like this in the same places as well, all were silver though, don't know if that's a coincidence?

[dilateous]

zetec said:

Not long after I got this car it was vandalised pretty badly and needed pretty much a full respray. The company that did the repair gave a 5 year warranty on their paintwork.

Is it worth me going to Ford or the Bodyshop?

If they gave a five year warranty, take it back to them. Mind you, how much change you'll get is probably questionable.

Seem to recall a relative of mine had a re-spray following an accident. After about a year rust was clearly in evidence.

The problem was clearly poor preparation during the re-spray process. The secret of any paint job is preparation. But of course, you don't see, or can't see, what they did.

I might add that a year or so before the above I re-sprayed another part of the car following a previous accident (the driver seemed to have a number of odd knocks!). My re-spray remained completely rust free throughout.

[rjp41]

Just to add about the rust the wives low mileage clean focus 2.0 TDCI ghia 50k had a stone hit the screen ,along came auto glass to change it as he took out the old screen and showed me the rust around the screen completely rotten and only 6 years old and original he said it was very common on the late focuses very poor build quality ford were not interested ( awful customer service )and as we had already had masses of other troubles with the car ( I could do a very long List )tried to sell it to no avail so traded in for an i30 so far had the car a while no problems reliable .

[theshrew]

Depends what the problem is.

If it was sprayed where the rust is go to the body shop if not go to Forf