I've had a few problems with my Focus (51 plate Zetec) and have only just read these threads. Could anyone help / advise me of what to do next please? 1. Driving home and started to feel loss of power in the engine, like it was going to cut out. Finally, the management light came on so I took it to the garage, who did a diagnostics on it. It was identified as a cylinder misfire and the garage fitted a new coil pack. 2. Although prior to this my speedo dropped to zero, and in low gears the Focus seemed to 'jump' slightly, it never cut out and no lights came on. After the coil pack was fitted, the management, battery and oil lights came on and the car cut out completely. 3. Had another diagnostic report on the car and it has come up with the speed sensor needing to be replaced. However, I now think that this may not be the root of the problem; do I need to replace the instrument cluster instead? Do you think that the coil pack was not needed? Did the coil pack cause greater problems, i.e. engine cutting out (as this didn't happen before the coil pack was replaced)? Many thanks.

Hi, this problem you've described is identical in every way to what I am currently experiencing with my 51 reg focus (1.6 zetec). I regularly see the speedo and mileage readout stop functioning while driving along and sometimes at the same time the volume on the stereo jumps up and down and the engine feels like it's lurching. It seems like a general electrical problem, so a simple and cheap fix that would solve all of these in one hit would be fantastic!

Another problem I've had is that the fan speed selector switch only works in position 4, where positions 1-3 do nothing. I've had a resistor replaced once to fix this but in less than 6 months it had gone again. This tells me there's a different problem elsewhere that's causing things to short out and malfunction.

Do you think all these problems could be fixed by simply pulling out the instrument cluster and giving it a clean up and resoldering the joints?

Cheers.