evening everybody,

a few months ago i bought a salvage front end damaged 2012 focus titanium push button start,

the car started and drove onto and back forth on the drive fine (having to move it due to limited space)

since then i have been all over the place buying parts .. started the car up moved it into center of drive so i had more space and taken the complete dashboard out (due to deployed airbags) , put the new dashboard in and everything works fine stereo instrument panel , climate control , voice control everything.. apart from it no longer starts it just comes up '' FORD KEYFREE SWITCH IGNITION OFF PRESS POWER '' (which is a red warning light) and thats it,, refuses to start have tried both key fobs doors lock and unlock fine when you press the pushbutton the screens light up like normal and can toggle the menus etc but when you put foot on brake pedal press start again nothing happens , i have gone through 2 car batterys so far trying to figure it out, any help would be great

(problem as a occur since the dashboard change it was a straight forward job and it drove before i started and i havent did anything else to it since so its defiantly something since the dashboard change)

thanks

 

Probably want a few ecu's resetting

 

i was thinking maybe the car has shut down or something and the immobilizer has locked in thinking somebody tampering with the car? maybe keys need recoding or like you said the ecu's need resetting, im going to have to get it hooked up to a diagnostics anit i it could be anything

 

Hi mate I've bought a salvage ford c max 2013 and repaired it and I was moving it around and stuff and coup

 

Hi mate I've bought a salvage ford c max 2013 and repaired it and I was moving it around and stuff and couple of nights ago I took it for a drive brought it home turned it off and now it won't start the same problem you were talking about in your post. What did you do to fix it? Any info at all would be a great help.

 

Hello! I encountered the same problem. Have you found a solution to this terrible nightmare? Thank you

 

Hi An7h0ny,

Did you ever get this problem solved?


Thanks

Andrew