# Issue with part for Ford Focus 2005 **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Tags:** focus, ford\ **Created:** [December 14, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722 "2010-12-14T22:17:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pbarton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@pbarton](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pbarton)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 10:17pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/1 "2010-12-14T22:17:57Z")
My dealership says it cannot get the part-the “Throttle Body” -until mid-January 2011. Does anybody have any info where this part either new or used can be found. The engine is a 2.0 Duratec. Thx ---
**Author:** ![eraser1998](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6de8d8/32.png) [@eraser1998](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eraser1998)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/2 "2010-12-14T22:26:36Z")
Find another Ford dealer. They vary wildly in terms of the quality of their parts departments, in my experience. I had one in town once tell me it would be at least a month before they could get a brake rotor shield in. Another got it for me in about 16 hours. Otherwise, call a few junkyards. The one near my office has 1 Focus listed in stock with that engine. It doesn’t take that much damage to total a 5 year old compact, so they aren’t that hard to find in junkyards for salvaging parts. ---
**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/3 "2010-12-14T23:15:14Z")
You can also try: [http://car-part.com](http://car-part.com) - nationwide network of junkyards. Great site. eBay is often a good option as well. Out of curiosity, why do you need a new throttle body? Its not a common thing to have a problem with. Are you sure the diagnosis is correct? Or maybe it just got damaged somehow? ---
**Author:** ![pbarton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@pbarton](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pbarton)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/4 "2010-12-15T14:45:15Z")
Thanks-I got the same story from another Ford dealer. However I found 3 used parts places in just 2 mins on the web that have the used part! Why couldn’t Ford do the same??? ---
**Author:** ![tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tardis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tardis)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/5 "2010-12-15T15:19:42Z")
Dealers usually will not use used parts. Ford’s been having some electronic throttle body production problems for a little while now. ---
**Author:** ![tardis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f0a364/32.png) [@tardis](https://community.cartalk.com/u/tardis)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:22pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/6 "2010-12-15T15:22:30Z")
It’s a throttle by wire setup. The throttle body in this case includes the servo motor and such. It is complicated enough to fail sometimes. I’ve also seen a number of them falsely diagnosed as faulty when the real problem was one or more marginal ignition coils causing electrical noise that confused the PCM. ---
**Author:** ![pbarton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@pbarton](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pbarton)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2010, 3:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/7 "2010-12-15T15:51:43Z")
The Ford dealer is putting in a used part todat and I will keep my fingers crossed. I have 14600 miles on the car right now. ---
**Author:** ![rokgpsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5e9695/32.png) [@rokgpsman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rokgpsman)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/8 "2010-12-16T12:52:23Z")
I have 14600 miles on the car right now. Is that all? Did you mean 146,000 miles? ---
**Author:** ![pbarton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e36b37/32.png) [@pbarton](https://community.cartalk.com/u/pbarton)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2010, 3:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/issue-with-part-for-ford-focus-2005/58722/9 "2010-12-16T15:55:49Z")
Yes, 146000 miles!