Ford Focus 2007 Fuel Filter- hard to get at location 

I have replace mine in my last car 2 times, now i have another ford cocus, with the same thing, & iam going to replace this one as well, But i will at a later date move the filter to another place, as iam planing on keep this car, it's a silly place to put a filter, & if your filter has been on there for 11 years, well, do i real need to chang this filter every 3 years, i think not, so plan is move filter, put new one on, then buy new filter & see what happen see how long it go for, as i was told you can put the filter any where on the car. & you can buy the pipe as well.

Changed mine in five minutes and I'm disabled.

Now if it's actually clogged would you run into the issue of not being able to drive i can seem to start my car and idel it but she dies out , i can keep her in idel for a while but until the gas pedal is applied and i rev her up thats when she'll putter out

For what engine ?

Interesting that you had no fuel shoot out did you remove the #15 blue fuse to decompress the lines?? that's what supposed to happen while the car is running then let it run until it cuts out.