2012-2018 Ford Focus 2.0 Common Points Of Failure/ Stuck Open Canister Purge Valve

This video is the first of several in my new series on "common points of failure" for the 2012-2018 Ford Focus 2.0L. In this video I focus on the evap canister purge valve. The evap canister purge valve of the 2012-2018 focus can get stuck open and I've seen my fair share of this. It can lead to symptoms like a rough idle, check engine light coming on, damage to the evap canister and the fuel tank. And to the best of my understanding, the last two symptoms, damage to the evap canister and the fuel tank, are likely to only occur to vehicles that have not had the recall 18S32 performed. I do go into some details pertaining to recall 18S32 in this video.

Note: While I have seen my fair share of stuck open purge valves for this particular vehicle over all the total number of vehicles that have a stuck open purge valve compared to the ones without is relatively small in my estimation. However, the recall applies to all 2012-2018 vehicles mentioned in the recall 18S32.

Here is a link to nhtsa.gov that goes into detail what is involved with the recall:
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2018/RCMN-18V735-0635.pdf

And, of course, here is a link to a video showing how to replace the canister purge valve.:
https://youtu.be/kCQc_-9bdoo

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