ford focus pleas help

[crazygirl74]

Please help me my car keeps acting crazy it drives just fine put sometimes it will start sometimes it wont last week it wouldn't even start by jumpier cables so we took the battery post off cleaned them real good then it started up then today i was at the stop sign i don't really know if it died or if i just killed it on accident so i tried jumping it and it didn't start so we cleaned the cables a little bit then pushed it and clutch started it and it drove home just fine but when i got home turned it off it wont start once again WHATS HAPPEN ITS MY ONLY WAY AROULD PLEASE HELP ME????????

 

[MKIIIRS]

How old is the battery? If it's too old it won't hold a charge. If the battery is new to could be a bad alternator.

 

[FocusMike]

Please help me my car keeps acting crazy it drives just fine put sometimes it will start sometimes it wont last week it wouldn't even start by jumpier cables so we took the battery post off cleaned them real good then it started up then today i was at the stop sign i don't really know if it died or if i just killed it on accident so i tried jumping it and it didn't start so we cleaned the cables a little bit then pushed it and clutch started it and it drove home just fine but when i got home turned it off it wont start once again WHATS HAPPEN ITS MY ONLY WAY AROULD PLEASE HELP ME????????

I agree check the alternator or battery.

 

[Tom]

Alternator going bad is a very common problem with the first gen Focus.