How The Focus RS AWD System Works!

[@padenvotaw6105]

I really hope your videos spread some awareness about the rs! I feel like people either don’t know it exists or forgot it does but to me it’s such a special car.

[@VortexTheGreat69]

🤫 I wanna get one before the price goes up I have a ford focus titanium thing is so fun to drive I want the upgrade 😂

[@christopherscott8272]

I love my RS.

[@jonathankemp2769]

Hey cam! I just bought a 2017 rs and have put over 20k miles on it myself already. This winter (I’m from Minnesota) when it would snow a bunch me and my friends would pile in the rs and do some hooning (private property of course) and it would go into limp mode some times yes and sometimes no, it really did just depend on how mean I was to the car. A simple reset with my cobb and letting it cool for 5 or so minutes does the trick! It’s nothing to worry about yet

[@phxcruiser]

Love the RS mine is at 110k I believe the RS is my perfect highway commuter with its awd sys

[@borutgr]

I buy RS 2017 and I did 115k kilometers with him in stock ... only 18" rims and brake upgrade. I pushing the car realy realy hard on mountains, twisty roads and track and car thank's god still work. The biggest purchase was the clutch and flywheal. Anyway great car and I want buy another one. Drive safe.

[@GTSCarLife]

Cameron, you really know your stuff and you make relevant videos. I used to compete in GTS2, and I have been instructing at the Circuit of The Americas Formula 1 track since 2013. My son who is now 19, tracked (and daily drove) his 1985.5 Porsche 944 for 3 years with no issues. He finally got his dream car, a 2017 Focus RS in Nitrous Blue and has not been able to do more than a single session without the car going into limp mode. I searched KZbin to try and learn what we could do to change that. You are the only person we've come across yet to address the issue of the transmission overheating. I only wish you had better news. Thank you sir, and continued success, Thomas

[@timotheetran]

Thanks for the RS series. I've been following most of it since I bought one around the same time you started doing these!

[@CameronAlford]

My pleasure!!

[@samhewitt8506]

Great car I loved mine looking for another one. The AWD is something really special in these cars.

[@michaelpercival8968]

Another great video Cameron, I’m over in the UK, and bought myself an RS Edition 2 years ago, which has the front quaife LSD as standard. It’s a brilliant car to own, and is not my daily driver. It just makes it that more special when I do drive it, and it never fails to put a smile on my face. Like you I’ve had plenty of focus ST’s, and though they are great cars, the RS with its trick all wheel drive system really makes it a great fun car to drive. I would never look to drift it, or put the car around the track, to me it’s a future classic, like the Cosworth generation I grew up wanting. It will be a shame to see yours go, I’ve enjoyed watching your content on the RS, keep up the good work. 👍🏻

[@coltexpress9371]

Loved the RS content! i was so hyped when i saw you bought one, watched every video but im sad you didnt install shifter bushings on it though. would highly recommend them personally

[@zanacku]

Dude. We need an update on the lift. How’s it been being outside how your neighbors hate/love it. Just life with an outside lift would be an epic update cus I’m legit thinking about doing one also.

[@CameronAlford]

Beat you to it!! Watch this -> kzbin.info/www/bejne/rYXdepd7aZycpZo

[@MarkFritscher]

interesting feedback.. I have a 2016 Focus RS that I track about 5-7 hours a month for three years and I have only put my rear differential in limp mode once.

[@CameronAlford]

That’s good! Loose surface driving definitely will heat it up quicker I would assume making it more of something to worry about it a rally type situation

[@Brennan-yf4yv]

I saw ur marketplace listing, hope you get another cool content car for us to enjoy

[@ThatsNBDY]

If you want to drift, put it in sport mode with traction control completely turned off (hold the button until it all turns off)…it’s much more manageable then

[@matthewconroy3081]

What I would like to know ow is the dampers and adjusting different modes….in normal feels like body rolling more than bedore

[@electricdoor]

If you will be hammering it, be sure to change the PTU/RDU fluid every 30k or so. They're billed as lifetime fluids but changing them can't hurt anything. The great thing about the RDU is it slips out all the torque it can't handle, (which is basically anything over stock) so even people with 600WHP builds have never really experienced failures. The crappy thing about the "limp mode" (disabling the RDU) Cam talks about isn't even based off a sensor in the RDU as it doesn't have anything like that. It's just done by crunching numbers from other sensors, so that can suck when it thinks the RDU is overheating but it's fine, like on ice.

[@Prolly_tyler]

I burned mine up after going fbo and doing donuts in an intersection in the middle of nowhere. The first time i ever used drift mode. The car wreaked of burned clutch afterwards and the smell never went away

[@CameronAlford]

dang!!!!

[@CameronAlford]

Exactly!! This is what Tim from Team O'Neil told me too, he found a way to trick the sensor somehow i cant remember what he said

[@electricdoor]

@@CameronAlford I know someone on the forums found a hack to get 15-25% more power sent to RDU via FORScan and I've heard rumors a rally team was sent a file that allows them to lock up the RDU, so that definitely seems possible. Then again, the ST guys still haven't found a way to completely disable brake vectoring yet (it still does some with ESC off) so who knows.

[@Prolly_tyler]

@electricdoor yeah i got a buddy with an ST. He put a lsd up front, but you can still feel the brake vectoring pretty harshly

[@tylordevine1397]

could you break this down for a 4th grader? thanks much love

[@jacobMMotorsport]

Interesting video!

[@spencersingh5143]

Hey bro you used to have a Mazda mps just wanted to ask how loud was the Cobb cat back exhaust compared to stock is it any louder or deeper tone I'm planning to get mine done I got a Cobb catback exhaust is it worth it putting it on

[@rawr2u190]

That's so interesting

[@matthewconroy3081]

What would it take to convert fiesta to this system????

[@wolffestudios9382]

Have you found a buyer yet for your RS?

[@CameronAlford]

Not modified. About to throw it on Facebook today. Are you interested?

[@wolffestudios9382]

@@CameronAlford I would love to but I can’t get approved because I’d be a first time car buyer. I just found out last week when I tried getting a 2017 RS :/ and I work at a ford and Mazda dealership. Unless you keep the title, I pay you monthly personally tell it’s payed off. Lol

[@wolffestudios9382]

Plus, I’m in Kansas :/ a little far. Be a fun road trip though.

[@matthewnuckolls6019]

What ever happy to Randall?

[@jtm1283]

I'm sorry, but just saying that the car uses algorithms to set the wheel torques (which isn't even true; it uses maps, not algorithms) is not an explanation of HOW it works. At a minimum, you need to tell us what types of diff the car has. For example, an Evo X has a helical front, a 50/50 planetary center with hydraulic limited slip, and a spider rear with hydraulic piggyback torque vectoring. That's the information I hoping to get here for the Focus RS. I was rather disappointed.

[@jtm1283]

Wow. It only took 10 minutes to find the actual answer. The 3rd-gen Focus RS is close to a front-default Haldex, but with separate clutches for each rear, instead of one clutch in the center and a geared diff in the rear. Knowing this allows me to correct one thing in the video. It doesn't "act" like a FWD car in normal mode, driving calmly around town, because of the extra driveline drag of AWD; it does this to reduce wear on the two clutch-packs in the rear. The clutch-packs aren't limited slip devices; they are how power is transferred from input to output. If I had to guess, the reason that Ford when with a modified Haldex in the center, in contrast to what Mitsu and Scooby have done, is that WRC rules don't allow for center differentials. All modern WRC cars have Haldex centers.

[@millll111lllI]

This is more of a gimmick than anything