{"id":1066,"date":"2020-10-21T17:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2020-10-21T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T16:26:40","slug":"ford-focus-zetec-2002-mk1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/?p=1066","title":{"rendered":"Ford Focus Zetec (2002 MK1.5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 26th of Janurary 2007 seen the purchase of my second car from Lisburn, NI.<\/p>\n<p>It was quite the step up from the Ibiza, and nice and comfortable too.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>1.8 16v Zetec<br \/>\n30mm Eibach lowering springs<br \/>\nTwin exit Magnex stainless steel catback exhaust system.<br \/>\nRear bumper valance<\/p>\n<p>It had been well cared for by Barry the previous owner and other than above it was pretty much standard.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00403-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00403.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00401-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00401.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soon began the modification starting with an ST170 lower grill<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/foci5-me.jpg\" alt=\"foci5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then sourcing some 17&#8243; wheels from the Fiesta ST sourced and fitted, wrapped in some Avon ZZ3s<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00708-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00708.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00713-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00713.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/dsc00740-me.jpg\" alt=\"dsc00740.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next came headlights and the addition of the new-fangled aero wipers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/0678-me.jpg\" alt=\"0678.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/0680-me.jpg\" alt=\"0680.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Almost a year into having the car, i descided that the wheels needed to be a different colour.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00081-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00081.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00082-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00082.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00083-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00083.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/galleries\/Focus\/foci1.jpg\" alt=\"foci1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soon after this, my friend Aaron was selling his Focus and offered to swap me for mine. And so it was lowered 50mm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/IMG_2313-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2313.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/IMG_2314-me.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2314.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The car was then fitted with a somewhat beaten up looking Manifold, sent to me from Texas USA for the crazy figure of $40 including shipping&#8230; \ud83d\ude10<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/_data\/i\/galleries\/Focus\/DSC00473-me.jpg\" alt=\"DSC00473.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ihni.uk\/gallery\/galleries\/Focus\/foci3.jpg\" alt=\"foci3.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nIt polished up quite well.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 26th of Janurary 2007 seen the purchase of my second car from Lisburn, NI.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[38,39,84],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-my-cars","tag-focus","tag-ford","tag-zetec"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/P1010179-me-e1603297591160.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ihni.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}