Focus just lost all gears.. whats wrong?

no resistance on the pedal means the linkage has failed, however you normally wouldnt be able to put in gear.
Cant see how it could fail dissengaged.

unless the cluth pressure springs themselves have failed, which i have never heard of before.

edit: unless you meant you could put it in gear when the engine was stopped, but i dont think you said that
 
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Lopéz said:
Sounds very much like you have done a driveshaft.

You can get gears but you can't get drive so it's either a driveshaft/cv joint or the diff I would say.
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yes but there is no resistance on the clutch pedal, presumably there was before.

edit: the only other remote possibility is the slave cylinder seizing, keeping thw clutch dissengaged while the master cylinder then fails completely which seems unlikely if not impossible
 
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Slam62 said:
yes but there is no resistance on the clutch pedal, presumably there was before.
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Oops - I missed his response to you, sorry.

Matt100 - does the pedal feel "normal" or is it floppy, because if it feels floppy then Slam62 is more likely to be right.

Problem is people often aren't very good at describing technical faults (the number of times I've heard things like "Oh it cranks over but isn't trying to start :/") - if I was sat in the car I'd probably be able to give you a good idea within seconds!
 
Lopéz said:
Oops - I missed his response to you, sorry.

Matt100 - does the pedal feel "normal" or is it floppy, because if it feels floppy then Slam62 is more likely to be right.

Problem is people often aren't very good at describing technical faults (the number of times I've heard things like "Oh it cranks over but isn't trying to start :/") - if I was sat in the car I'd probably be able to give you a good idea within seconds!
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it seemed pretty normal, they're fairly light anyway and I was quite stressed so perhaps not paying attention but now I think about it I did push it down and let it out slowly a few times looking to find any bite at all to try and figure out if it was minced so there's definitely reistance in the pedal, the more I think about it the more I'd say it actually feels like a normal level of resitance.

So is that the driveshaft? I'm not great mechanically.. do I have several? Because whatever has gone its completely gone lol!
 
Same thing happened to my Astra, was my drivers side driveshaft. Just popped out! Luckily it went straight back in but I've been somewhat more careful ever since.
 
I know I don't understand this but if I have 2 driven wheels, and 1 driveshaft breaks surely I go to 1wd?

I really wasn't getting anything at all.. or do they break in pairs?
 
Someone else might be able to confirm this, but if its a driveshaft issue will the speedo read a speed with it in gear and the cluth engaged? I.e. trying to drive but having no drive. If that is the case and you speedo registersa speed then you would be looking at driveshafts or diff being the issue...

Maybe... :)
 
matt100 said:
I'm not great mechanically.. do I have several? Because whatever has gone its completely gone lol!
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Driveshaft connects the differential to the driving wheels (prop-shaft connects the gearbox to the differential). So in your front-wheel-drive car you'll have one coming out one side of the differential and going to the front left wheel, and one coming out the other side of the differential and going to the front right wheel.
 
matt100 said:
I know I don't understand this but if I have 2 driven wheels, and 1 driveshaft breaks surely I go to 1wd?

I really wasn't getting anything at all.. or do they break in pairs?
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A differential (well a normal one anyway) will send all drive to the wheel thats easiest to turn.

So, if your driveshafts gone.. its going to there and won't turn the other wheel.

A very crude explanation sorry :o
 
matt100 said:
no I get that.. makes perfect sense.. wonder if its true? :)
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Yes. When the bolts sheared on my Jetta it wasn't going anywhere as a one wheel drive. Luckily it was a couple of hundred yards from the house so me and my Dad managed to push it home.

I would think that an LSD would partially work in 1WD, but not very well.
 
MagicBoy said:
Yes. When the bolts sheared on my Jetta it wasn't going anywhere as a one wheel drive. Luckily it was a couple of hundred yards from the house so me and my Dad managed to push it home.

I would think that an LSD would partially work in 1WD, but not very well.
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Not if it was a torsen like a lot of cars are fitted with, they will act just like an open diff if one wheel is off the ground. You would be able to use the left foot braking technique to trick it into sending torque to the other wheel though.
 
are you suggesting if its just 1 driveshaft and I jump and and do some left foot braking it'll move at least enough to diagnose it as that?
 
It sounds very much like a clutch to me - we've always had a focii of some sort in the family. Between 70 - 80k is prime time for the clutch and the slave cylinder to have to be replaced!
 
all become a bit clearer just now.. been towed to a garage and every time I turned the wheel there was knock knock knock..

Guy at the garage said he'd be surprised if it wasnt the drive shafts which apparently is the easy option because they're easy to swap out unlike a clutch or gearbox.

I need that "everything went better than expected" picture lol.
 
matt100 said:
all become a bit clearer just now.. been towed to a garage and every time I turned the wheel there was knock knock knock..

Guy at the garage said he'd be surprised if it wasnt the drive shafts which apparently is the easy option because they're easy to swap out unlike a clutch or gearbox.

I need that "everything went better than expected" picture lol.
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Certainly sounds like a CV joint has failed, but that shouldn't have affected how the clutch feels.
 
Another shout for it to be a CV joint or drive shaft which is in theory the cheapest/ easiest to repair so you might have been lucky.
 
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