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Old 10-01-2013, 09:39 PM   #511
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What are you guys paying or have paid for an ST on road?
I'm paying a touch under 42.

I think you'll struggle to get much off one if you order it, but you might get more off on a 2012 plate in stock
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Got just an awesome phonecall! My car is at the dealership!! picking it up on the 30th yay!!!
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Anybody else having Sync issues? I cant find any Titanium/Sport Focus owners having issues, so wondering if I'm just unlucky, or it's an ST specific issue we're having.

Ours has had:

1. The center screen didn't come on for 1 trip (annoyingly it was a 3 hour trip :( ). Dealer said this could have been a low voltage issue where the car did it to save power.

2. Doesn't seem to hold onto a connection to our phones for very long, and quite often you can't connect the phone until after 5-10 minutes of being in the car.

3. The current big issue, the AUX function totally dead. Either goes to a screen with no text, or if you use the voice control to say "USB" it just ignores you.

I've got it booked in to go back to the dealer next week. In the meantime I've tried master reset, pulling the fuse. Anybody have any special button combos to force a reboot or something?

Other than that, the car is great.
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Old 15-01-2013, 02:20 PM   #514
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Got just an awesome phonecall! My car is at the dealership!! picking it up on the 30th yay!!!
Niiiice

Question is, why the hell are they making you wait another 2 weeks for it?!
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Old 15-01-2013, 02:54 PM   #515
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Anybody else having Sync issues? I cant find any Titanium/Sport Focus owners having issues, so wondering if I'm just unlucky, or it's an ST specific issue we're having.

Ours has had:

1. The center screen didn't come on for 1 trip (annoyingly it was a 3 hour trip :( ). Dealer said this could have been a low voltage issue where the car did it to save power.

2. Doesn't seem to hold onto a connection to our phones for very long, and quite often you can't connect the phone until after 5-10 minutes of being in the car.

3. The current big issue, the AUX function totally dead. Either goes to a screen with no text, or if you use the voice control to say "USB" it just ignores you.

I've got it booked in to go back to the dealer next week. In the meantime I've tried master reset, pulling the fuse. Anybody have any special button combos to force a reboot or something?

Other than that, the car is great.
No issues at all here. It sounds very much like a troubled unit. Even the voice recognition is decent, I have and have had many devices where this function was next to useless.
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Old 15-01-2013, 03:27 PM   #516
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Niiiice

Question is, why the hell are they making you wait another 2 weeks for it?!
So they have time to repair the damage they just did while doing handbrake turns in the car park.
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I had an issue where it told me that indexing is full, some songs might not be played - when this happened my voice commands for everything stopped working, after disconnecting the battery it was fine though.

I've never had an issue with the bluetooth connecting at all, it works great.
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I haven't had any problems with the SYNC screen. I can play music on my iPhone with Bluetooth or USB, and can make and receive phone calls using Bluetooth (although at times the person at the other end of the call has trouble hearing what I'm saying... maybe I'm talking too softly or something).

I have had trouble with the screen between the speedo and tacho, though (the one that shows litres per hundred km etc - see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEVpK5WujaA for the US version in MPG). At around 2000 km it started to look like it has been permanently dimmed for night driving; it is almost impossible to read the outside temperature or odometer, and the car graphic kinda shimmers. The manual doesn't say anything about brightness for this item. The instrument brightness switches only work on the gauges around the panel.

Apparently the dealer has to wait until another ST comes in, then they swap the panel, and if it gets better then they order another panel in for the donor car. I'd prefer if they just replaced the faulty part.
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Well.. went looking at more XR5's today...

Bought an ST in Frozen white!

@ 2.9% it was too hard to ignore.. and i gave up trying to find that perfect 5. Either way, im stoked and cant wait to hit the old pacific with her!

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[QUOTE=aratic;4590043]Niiiice

Question is, why the hell are they making you wait another 2 weeks for it?![/

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Because of the long weekend and having to get sunroof and tint and wheels painted, might be earlier tho ;)
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Well.. went looking at more XR5's today...

Bought an ST in Frozen white!

@ 2.9% it was too hard to ignore.. and i gave up trying to find that perfect 5. Either way, im stoked and cant wait to hit the old pacific with her!

here a quick pic, get her in a week as she was already on the lot!

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Coming up to 3000k slight problem with the left skirt coming loose at rear but thats it
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Just went to the dealer tonight to check out my car, got a nice surprise looks like the new batch come with the black headlights cant wait till the 30th now then it will be finally in my driveway!!

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Hey guys just joined this forum today!

Super excited to say I am picking up my focus ST (tangerine) on Friday, which i got for a great deal (40k drive away) being a 2012 plate model.

Can't wait to drive her around and wear in my very new engine.

Had a question for people who are already owners, what are some good customisations you have been doing since you bought yours. Apart from tinting which is a no brainer, i was thinking of getting the wheels painted darker. Is this an expensive exercise?

Also what are the best places in WA for good tinting?

Aprt from keeping the car washed and waxed, and scotchguarding the interior, would wnyone recommend any must-do steps for surface protection on a new car?

Obviously i didnt accept the dealers 'protection package' which is a total crock i know for a fact as i have friends who work in dealerships.
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Sweet looking headlights!

Hopefully some one who buys a 2013 will want to swap!
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Yep I'm really glad it has them, I loved them in the brochure and wasn't a fan of the chrome ones and was planing on changing them. Now I don't have too :p
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Yep I'm really glad it has them, I loved them in the brochure and wasn't a fan of the chrome ones and was planing on changing them. Now I don't have too :p
That's a result mate, I'm hoping mine comes with them too! I see the silver focus in the background had them, maybe all models from now on will come std with them
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That's a Fiesta mate.

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Yep I'm really glad it has them, I loved them in the brochure and wasn't a fan of the chrome ones and was planing on changing them. Now I don't have too :p
The black headlights look so much better on the ST though, as they don't have the chrome accents below the windows, so it looks so much sportier. Nice one mate!
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Yep I was even more excited when I saw them! That's a fiesta In the back ground, I didn't get a chance too look at the others that came in they got a fair few in. But hopefully they are all like that they are a lot tougher looking with them
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Did you get to have a look at the new steering wheel controls?
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Woohoo, so your's is a late 2012 build with black surrounds? Should mean the 2013 comes with the black lights as well.

Has anyone ordered a 2013 build? If so, what time frame have you been given for delivery?
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Yep mine is a 2013 build, given a time frame beginning of April
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Feel kinda ripped off now that i got the chrome lights considering all of FORD's advertising in australia is with the blacked out ones...
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Yeah and rightfully so, may even devalue the cars with the chrome headlights too...
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Yeah and rightfully so, may even devalue the cars with the chrome headlights too...
Meh i dont hate them, quite like the DRL's.

If it gets to the point where they really bug me il just throw in some black housed focus titanium headlights.
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Hi everyone! New here - Hubby and I bought our new Tangerine ST yesterday after owning a Perf Blue 2007 ST in the UK (which we'd modded).

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Yeah and rightfully so, may even devalue the cars with the chrome headlights too...
Have you considered ordering a 2013 Shelby Focus ST for xtra $$$$$. Limited to 500 per year and pics show dark headlights.

I'm happy with my TS with the chrome headlights. Maybe it will increase the value as they wiil become rare.
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Have you considered ordering a 2013 Shelby Focus ST for xtra $$$$$. Limited to 500 per year and pics show dark headlights.

I'm happy with my TS with the chrome headlights. Maybe it will increase the value as they wiil become rare.
2.9% rate > 2013 model (although i hear there were some 2013s that may be delievered with this offer). Can live without the black head lights for now
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