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Anyone Else have problems with your Focus getting proper gas mileage?
City mileage averaging 17-18 mpg. I have this car in the shop 2-3 times and they can never find a problem with it. I wrote someone at Ford Motor Company since this problem still isn't fixed and the factory bumper to bumper has expired. They've arranged to have this checked again Thursday.
The car has a rough idle. While this is a "normal" characteristic of Fords due to cheap motor mounts, I still say this is worse than it should be - Sometimes, I feel like I have massage seats!
On a few occassions, we've also smelled gas fumes for several blocks. The smell got stronger and stronger until our noses and eyes started burning and we had to turn the heat off and roll the windows down and then it stopped and went away. Ford's explanation for this was that we must of have gotten the fumes on our clothes (we filled up the day before) or it was another car (which no one was around us at the time since it was later in the evening).
Has anyone else had this problem with their car? What was the problem? Anyone have any ideas??
Before it's suggested - no I do not "hot rod" the car. In fact, we traded in our Montana (minivan) for this car. We were getting about 16 mpg city in it. I checked the revised for both - the van was 17 (1 off) and the Focus was 24.
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my girfriend has a 2008 focus and when she bought it about 7 months ago a full tank would say 340 miles to empty. now when she fills up it says 280-290 till empty and its usually dead on. So yes for some reason its getting les fuel econmy and i have check many different things to find the cause. Oh and for the motor mount rough idling thing you mentioned. Hers does not have it but her previous car was really bad with it. What i did to fix it was adjusted the idle rpms about 300pms higher. I did this to a buddy of mines car as well and fixed his rough idle. They are crap cars tho.
With the smell of gasoline, you probley have a gas leak somewhere. Or possibly something went wrong with your car and you might be running rich. Take a spark plug out and see if your running rich and then go from there
Source(s): expierience
