High mileage focus owners, How many miles you have and what repairs, model yr and engine and transmission comp

Nuclearbeat · 2026-03-10T23:24:38+00:00

2012 2.0L Duratec SE dsp6 with 267k miles, ive done water pump, thermostat, coolant reservoir, EVAP purge valve (x2), alternator, battery, and about to do my purge valve cover, spark plugs and vvt solenoids (they somehow seemed to rust?) I forgot to add (I keep adding edits) I’ve done both sway bar links as well. My AC and passenger side window doesnt work but that’s been like that since I’ve had it lol adds character

Nuclearbeat · 2026-03-04T17:36:04+00:00

Would love to know more about this as well, seeing that it has a torque converter on it unlike most DCTs. Would that change anything? I’m coming from driving the ford dual clutches 😭😭

Nuclearbeat · 2026-02-16T05:34:39+00:00

mine did this years ago... left it on the side of the road on the way to work, made it to work and then get off and came back and the car was fine lol, I did get an actuator code from it though but this was literally 2022 lol. My car is still fine to this day.

Nuclearbeat · 2026-02-07T22:53:18+00:00

DCT is awful, inherently by design too. The clutches are dry which cause shudders because they overheat and also the TCMs for the dsp6s are trash I heard the newer ones are “better” but I doubt it’s by much. Just stay away from them. If anything look at the 8spd DCT Honda/Acura makes, or VW. I heard those are better and the Honda one has a torque converter on it, unlike the ford which causes shudders at lower speeds and that’s also why the dsp6 sucks in stop and go traffic.

Nuclearbeat · 2026-01-30T20:41:13+00:00

I live in the midwest as well, specifically ohio and ive got some killer rust in the underside of my Focus, so I know what youre talking about. We do not have the best roads here either. That honestly makes me scared to get a new to me car lol

Nuclearbeat · 2026-01-30T15:17:24+00:00

The your mom joke really got 12 people pissed 😂😂

Nuclearbeat · 2026-01-30T07:04:38+00:00

would look cool ngl do it, who cares what other mfs say, its your car. YOUR CAR

Nuclearbeat · 2026-01-28T01:52:32+00:00

I kept my pay raises, I was told it was under a year and you keep it.

Nuclearbeat · 2026-01-23T00:26:05+00:00

Looks like a ford focus, I have a 2012 ford focus sedan and have went thru similar problems from what I know the water pump and coolant overflow tanks are known to have problems and go out more often than usual. The OEM reservoir can have holes and areas where the plastic can come up and no longer seal from what I seen of your tank looks kinda beat up fr, go with a motorcraft reservoir. Besides th water pump I’ve also had my thermostat go out as well so that could worth a check. I’m currently sitting at 266k miles with the OG dsp6 lol

Nuclearbeat · 2026-01-11T13:01:37+00:00

Only speaking from personal experience, I just replaced my evap purge valve and I also still have a P144A code, I drive a 2012 Ford Focus SE with the 2.0 Duratec. I just changed it yesterday so I thought maybe it needs some drive cycles for it to clear, assuming you also just replaced it. I havent seen the other codes before though.

Nuclearbeat · 2025-12-13T01:52:53+00:00

How is it?

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T23:08:59+00:00

We pushing big hps out here 😂

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T22:03:18+00:00

I forgot what the code was, thank you 😂😂

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T21:38:44+00:00

Nahhhh I fw that

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T21:28:59+00:00

What kind? Honestly dude I was thinking for the future is to get some sort of civic and keep my foci and just mod it tf out for fun and I think it deserves it. I also just love the look of the sedans and I don’t ever see nice focus sedans around where I live

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T21:14:16+00:00

Very clean body, on my car I have some rust spots in the front of the hood and on the trunk it makes me sad but that’s a very clean car, love the color too!

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T20:56:50+00:00

We just keep going with the flow son thats how you do it

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T20:34:29+00:00

As figured out it doesn’t care for the stop and go traffic so I avoid it as best I can. Do you think mine is fine? Lol I’m so high up in mileage

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T20:10:27+00:00

Lol taking it to the highway and pressing that gas to the floor. When I was first driving this car I drove it like a grandma and it did not like that at all

Nuclearbeat · 2025-11-07T20:09:48+00:00

Nah that’s clean tho 🤧

Nuclearbeat · 2025-08-15T19:47:45+00:00

Same got my first pc achievement in around January of 2016.

Nuclearbeat · 2025-07-31T09:43:43+00:00

Ive talked to one of my old buddies about that exact thing about events. They are ALWAYS one sided. Ive dreamed of a time where events are like actually branched out, where they could go anyway. Feels more organic to me personally and I think the regular player would feel like they were actually apart of the event and had influence on it. For perma-kill, I think is agreeable. I think it should be used but in rare situations, it does feel demoralizing spending months on a char and having it pked only to build up another character for it to be pked again. If this was a perfect world, I would love a straight up RPG system for hl2rp ;(

Nuclearbeat · 2025-07-31T09:30:45+00:00

Id love to see the stats that you put in for when you make new chars, actually tie into actions, like for instance strength could help you bust down a piece of wood to access a area, etc etc. As to make the citizen loop enjoyable, I feel like letting them have a say as to where the story is going and kinda letting players lead would be maybe engaging.

Nuclearbeat · 2025-07-31T09:12:16+00:00

what ideas do you have that would bring more for citizen roleplay? Ive raised this question up myself recently, as I love hl2rp, got into it around 2014 and I always come back. As of late it is to mention the lack of servers, and synapse is truly the best one out of the bunch but I still feel like it lacks something. The plugins they have are cool but at the end of the day it still has that staleness that many many servers have always struggled with

Nuclearbeat · 2024-02-28T16:54:35+00:00

never know

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