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Out of idea's. Focus is sick.. can you help me, PLEASE?...

1.9K views 4 replies 3 participants last post by  fixitnowlt  
#1 ·
Alright...
... I have an 03 ford focus zx3.. recently my battery light came on.. charged the battery, everything was fine.. i drove about 10 miles and my radio quit.. a mile more and my gauges quit... then maybe half mile later, my gauges tuned in full blast.

Every 10 seconds later all of my power would dissengage for a quick second.. everything would just quit.. I had to drive it back to my house, about ten miles.. and it was jerking, obviously and finally lost power about a mile to my house.
I jumped it with my friends car and made it home, and thats it.

I took off my alternator and had it rebuilt.. I got the upgrade.. my car drove fine after for about an hour.. then the same thing kept happening.

Everythings fine now until my car goes over 2,000 rpms so obviously I cant drive it.
I just replaced the battery, still bad.
After 2,000 rpm's the gauges drop, then blast, then drop.. radio doesn't turn on anymore, only beeps when i press power.

Metered my battery and have 24 volts.. way too high. All my grounds are lubed up, clean and perfect..

Does anyone have any knowledge of things going bad on my focus?

I'm a girl.. I have no other ideas... help? Thank you!

 
#2 ·
I had a ton of these do this. It was very hard to pinpoint the concern or faulty part. We(fellow techs and I) started putting battery cable harnesses on them and that seemed to fix them. It is worth a shot considering what you have done so far.