Hugh Manatee
Veteran
I have had a Focus for four years and it has been really good. All apart that is, from the stupid "easy fill" filler cap. Here is an email I sent to Ford yesterday. I await a reply but I am interested whether anyone else has had problems:
Hello, I have had to give a lot of personal details just to be able to send this simple email. I value my privacy so it is an indication of how strongly I want to get this message across that I have got this far. I am about to select my next company car. It might yet be a new Mondeo. The one thing that would make me choose a Toyota instead is the "Easy Fill Fuel Filler." It might easy fill but three times now in separate garages the nozzle has become stuck. Dog knotted you might say. I tried pouring cold water over it as you might the dogs. I tried gently tugging and turning it. I even managed a full 360 rotation of the stuck nozzle. All to no avail. An almighty heave did the job with my fellow motorists becoming impatient behind me it was the only option left open to me. Those same motorists now ducked for cover as all the small parts and springs that go to make up the ridiculously over engineered answer to a problem that never existed fired out in a way a frag grenade would be envious of. I drove home with my socks jammed in the filler as I didn't want to leave a trail of diesel on the road.
Three times! I am not heavy handed and do not jam the damn thing in there. It is simply a rubbish design. I have never put the wrong fuel in 20 odd years but three times I have driven home sans socks! Please revert back to a proper filler and sack the idiot who came up with the idea. He can go and redesign the screw cap with another 10 parts or so I'm sure. The end result will be you can't get the bloody lid off to have a drink. Hopefully the fool will test the prototype in a desert somewhere.
I hope I have got my point across. I'm off now to look at fuel fillers on a T. avensis.
Hello, I have had to give a lot of personal details just to be able to send this simple email. I value my privacy so it is an indication of how strongly I want to get this message across that I have got this far. I am about to select my next company car. It might yet be a new Mondeo. The one thing that would make me choose a Toyota instead is the "Easy Fill Fuel Filler." It might easy fill but three times now in separate garages the nozzle has become stuck. Dog knotted you might say. I tried pouring cold water over it as you might the dogs. I tried gently tugging and turning it. I even managed a full 360 rotation of the stuck nozzle. All to no avail. An almighty heave did the job with my fellow motorists becoming impatient behind me it was the only option left open to me. Those same motorists now ducked for cover as all the small parts and springs that go to make up the ridiculously over engineered answer to a problem that never existed fired out in a way a frag grenade would be envious of. I drove home with my socks jammed in the filler as I didn't want to leave a trail of diesel on the road.
Three times! I am not heavy handed and do not jam the damn thing in there. It is simply a rubbish design. I have never put the wrong fuel in 20 odd years but three times I have driven home sans socks! Please revert back to a proper filler and sack the idiot who came up with the idea. He can go and redesign the screw cap with another 10 parts or so I'm sure. The end result will be you can't get the bloody lid off to have a drink. Hopefully the fool will test the prototype in a desert somewhere.
I hope I have got my point across. I'm off now to look at fuel fillers on a T. avensis.
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