Ford focus 2005

Trueblonde1

How much should it cost to have a rear brake pipe and style pipe fitted

tacpot12

What's a style pipe?

Trueblonde1

Sorry auto correct took over. It should read fuel pipe

AdrianC

Trueblonde1 said:

How much should it cost to have a rear brake pipe and style fuel pipe fitted

How long's a piece of string?

Which brake pipe(s)? Will the calipers/disks/pads all turn out to be knackered, too?
Where's the fuel pipe? It might be two seconds work, it might be tank out. Tank out may involve exhaust off, possibly even rear subframe.

HansOndabush

Why not get a a quote from a garage?

Hasbeen

Trueblonde1 said:

How much should it cost to have a rear brake pipe and style pipe fitted

So has it failed the MOT? What did the garage quote?

A 2005 focus you should get at least a £100 scrap value? if repair costs are expensive

KimJongUn88

More information needed. 

Rear brake pipe. Is it the short flexi hose that goes from the caliper which can be bought for a few pounds and bolted in? Or is it part of the fixed pipe where the garage will have to fabricate their own piping and mate it in?

dipsomaniac

impossible to say without knowing exactly what needs replacing and how easy it is to access.  am assuming you can't do it yourself so i would get two quotes,  one from a company like national tyres, f1, kwikfit etc.  they do jobs like this all day long and have various offers/vouchers/promotions on their websites.  the other quote from a local small garage or mobile mechanic.

apart from catastrophic engine failure i can't see any good reason to scrap a 2005 focus 

Trueblonde1

Thanks, it's a great little diesel car and well worth repairing. These faults were advisories on the last mot. It's going in for new mot on Monday so I asked for this to be done at the same time. I just wanted a ball park figure. If I bought another used car to replace it, it may have expensive problems of its own. I have kept this car well maintained and I think it has a few more years in it

dipsomaniac

I would see what pops up on new MOT before getting a possible quote to do any work.

Ditzy_Mitzy

It's worth keeping the car and repairing it, bearing in mind that it's probably not going to be that expensive.  Dependent on condition and mileage the car will be worth £1,000+.  Just for fun: I predict the Mk1 will be the next Ford to become classic; the much maligned, in their day, late Escorts already have and they don't have the Focus's design cachet or place in the public affection.  If yours is a Mk1 it might be worth more in a couple of years, rather than less.