THANK YOU!!!! YESS!!!! Someone else that uses anti seize on the nuts and studs!! You have NO idea how much shit I have caught over the years from folks about that!!! They kept saying the torque wouldnt be accurate on the nuts and the wheels would fall off and all sorts of guff!
I wish I could give you a medal for this!!!
Ha! That's hilarious. I've made it 190,000 miles without the wheels falling off!
Another tip for the OP. I've always been a little nervous about getting my car up on all four jacks at the same time, mainly because my garage floor is not perfectly level. I believe in most cars these days, the rotation pattern is just front to back, back to front, with the tires staying on the same side of the vehicle. [I could be wrong about the Focus, I've never owned one. But I hope not!]
So to rotate my tires, I use the spare tire. Take off the front wheel, put on the spare, tighten the nuts (doesn't have to be all the way to the torque spec, but good and tight), lower the car, loosen the nuts on the rear tire, raise the car, take off the rear tire and replace with the front one, then go back to the spare tire in the front and replace with the rear tire. It takes a little longer, but you can get away with just using a good jack, rather than jack stands.