Hey there

can anyone tell me the pinout for the clock on the focus. not speedos just the digital time clock.

Cheers!

 

I thought it was self-contained so just power (constant and ignition) and earth and possibly a lighting feed? A multimeter would tell you very quickly.

 

it is.

it's always on and there is five wires, so at a guess I would have thought there would be:

ground
LED positive (for the immobilizer/alarm led)
constant
Ignition (seems to turn backlight on after engine started)
illumination

however not sure of pinout. Might have to take dash out and look.

 

Forgot that.

 

having had a look at it, it would appear as though my theory may be correct.

Electrics off, time is displayed, power up car in key pos2, and the clock lights up. If I switch on sidelights, then the clock flickers briefly and the illumination dial will dim/bright the display.

so that makes sense as not every focus had the dim dial as I call it.

just need a pinout, I guess a multimeter will fix that.

Time to mod!

 

Intrigued; what are you wanting to do?

 

Im modding the dash surround around the radio.

Making it 1din

removing the focus clock, and making a new hole for the MK5 Fiesta one.

why? the higher spec fiesta clock has two ice lights and a button that toggles from a clock to an outside temp display. If it's frosty the yellow ice light comes on, if theres black ice the red one comes on.

the sensor wires straight into the clock itself and can be nabbed from a fiesta/puma/or a mondeo.

not only will it be useful but also be different as I have not seen it done before.... well not on a focus!

here is what it looks like:

 

heres a mockup of what it would be like

 

Ah, I see. I get the temp display on my Focus from the Trip Computer that I added.
Luckily mine already had the basic wiring loom in place, being an early Zetec.

 

Yeah my 2003 ink does not have that plug.....

I plan to use the fuel computer space for a gauge. But this is the next best thing if you dont have the loom and dont want to rip dash out to fit it.

 

The yellow light comes on at 4 degrees, the red one at 0. Weather it's frosty or icy has nothing to do with it I'm afraid. Why not fit a trip computer instead that has these lights in them. Pretty sure they are plug and play.

 

I don't have the plug otherwise I would.

technically being pedantic lol, it would be frosty at 4 degrees and icy at 0... but I'm not pedantic :P

I just like it for a bit of eye candy and to be different.

 

It would not be frosty at 4 degrees as last time I checked, water doesn't freeze until 0 degrees, but I'm trying not to be pedantic either lol.

 

Ok you win

thanks for the info tho. I notice you aren't too far from where I'm based.