2015 Ford Focus 1.5tdci Titanium

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The Focus had another decent run out yesterday, this time up to the Scottish border, just over 500 miles covered in a day

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Peanut Gallery said:

Come further north!! Forget the borders, get to Glasgow, then through, THEN the roads start! We have brilliant roads up here! (p.s. Please forget the NC 500, those roads are good, but there are better roads and with less tourists)

Yeah I'll have to have a trip further north at some point. I was getting photos around Jedburgh and a few other places

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Front tyres now done, I got 2 Avons for £141 fitted.

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The Focus had another run out yesterday, this time to Beamish. Around 300 miles covered

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Another mileometer moment last night

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Bobberoo said:

Really racking those miles up Eyersey!!!

I'm not doing as many as I was but that's down to the shorter commute, this year its done around 9000 miles and a lot of that has been on longer journeys

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Currently on a short break in Liverpool with Mrs Eyersey, the Focus will click over 120k on the drive back on Wednesday

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Another mileometer moment tonight

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Yeah everything is fine thanks Bobbers there's just been nothing to report

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The Focus is booked in at our friendly garage on the 12th April to have a suspension bush renewed that has deteriorated

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Front suspension, presumably it will be all the bushes on that side

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At the last MOT they said a n/s suspension bush was deteriorating and would need doing within the next few thousand miles, so I don't think it's droplinks

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The Focus has had a busy couple of days, went down to the Chiltern Open Air Museum yesterday and over to Tockwith near York today where I drove these beauties, really enjoyed it

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Another mileometer moment

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Bobberoo said:

Excellent!
I missed a good one in Ivor, would have been 062260, but when I remembered to look it was about 10 miles over!!

We go away for 2 weeks on Monday, it will do over 1000 miles while we are away so may not be able to get a picture of 123456 unfortunately

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Good trip down to Torquay today, the Focus did 320 miles on quarter of a tank of diesel. It clicked over 123456 on the way down, no picture unfortunately as we were on the M5 at the time

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carl120 said:

I’ve read this post from start to finish as I’ve recently purchased a 1.5 tdci Titanium X. Have you had any DPF issues at all during your ownership?
Glad the car is serving you well

Just seen this message, sorry I missed it. No, so far, touch wood, I've had no DPF issues. I think it helps that I try to give the car at least one good run a month to give it chance to clear itself out

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mooseracer said:

We have a later version - economical as it is, there's no way it is doing 1200+ miles to a tank

Oops sorry I meant half a tank, no idea why I put quarter 🤣

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mooseracer said:

Was thinking I'd bought the wrong one
We are only a few weeks into ours, but I'm really impressed with the little 1.5

I'm really impressed with mine, done about 30k in just under 3 years in it and it's a lovely car

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The Focus is enjoying it's holiday in Torquay, we went over to Tiverton on Tuesday and had a ride on the canal on a horse drawn canal barge, yesterday was at Exmouth and today a butterfly and otter place at Buckfastleigh followed by an old pub that closed in the 60s and was left for 30 years, being saved from demolition and is now a museum.