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Notching the defectives
My Focus ECOnetic 90 has just had its first service at a year old and 12,500 miles, and the garage says it needs it for longer to try to sort a 'notchy' 5-speed gearbox. How is yours? Is it worth me letting them fiddle with it, do you think? They also highlighted a front tyre worn to 1mm on the inside edge, the opposite side is at 3mm, is this within spec, or maybe the tracking a bit uneven?
Asked on 8 August 2009 by
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Honest John
The 5-speeders can be quite notchy. The 2.0 petrol test car's was at the launch. But I ran an ECOnetic's for 13 months and that was okay. Yours can probably be adjusted at the lever end of the cables. Inner tyre shoulder wear is usually caused by chamfered edge speed cushions. Every driver needs to regularly inspect the hidden inner shoulders of their tyres for speed cushion damage because a sudden tyre failure as a result can be a killer.
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