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I have no problem with any of this at all. I'm delighted by it if I'm honest...where I was looking like I'd have another 65k miles before needing to retire it from daily duties...I now have another 75k miles. In effect I have the same car that I bought six months ago but, after 8,500 miles, it...

I have extended the warranty so I'm good for at least the first 5 years and 100,000 miles. I hope by that time Ford have sorted the problem out! That's what I'm mostly hearing although others have said just a block/head, or the full engine but without all of the ancillaries. Nope. Two weeks...

Along with uncertainty and a mssive PITA there's also a big nod to the CS old-timers in here. Thanks to @ForceIndia for the inspiration :up:😂

There have been one or two that I've heard of. The thing is, with Ford playing their cards so close to their chest, no one knows a) the exact reasons why they fail or b) how the replacement engines have been 'fixed'. What I'm getting may be doomed to fail again in the next six months! From...

Based on forum reports a fair estimate from what we know so far would around 5% or so. Some suggest more that 10% but I think that's way too high.

I will sell it eventually...but there's no hurry at all, I'm curious what will happen to the value of it over time. Getting it moving about daily is a wonderful thing, understanding and analysing the hell out of it comes a close 2nd :laughing: As for the engine replacement? At worst I can see...

This is what the internet needs to know and why I've asked for comfort that I'm not going to be back again with the same problem in six months time. Unlikely I'll get a definitive answer but that won't stop me pestering them for one!

I've asked but it's unlikely I'll find out.

I'm feeling that ^^^ b**ches. I did take my gloves out last time but completely forgot to use them as I was being so awesome without them. In other news, complete replacement engine is scheduled for delivery to dealer Friday 8th December. That's quite quick compared to what others have...

I'm in a hire car for now. Video update to follow...

The last three starts have all sounded like this...it's gone from one in every four or five starts to almost every time. I hope the dealership see sense today and don't just top the coolant up and hand it back.

We'll see in another 9.5 years if it was a sensible move or not. I think it will be :smile: Define a 10? To be fair to Ford so far they've been quite accommodating...there's a few modded cars that have had entire engines replaced. This is how I feel. I can mostly scare myself anywhere in it...

£900 for an air filter, induction pipe, and dealer installed map is a lot no matter how much power you gain from it. They give you exactly the same (hardware + map) for the Fiesta and charge £600. The accountant in me only sees and hears £900 minus £600 etc.

It clearly is. I have it booked in for a once over by the dealership tomorrow...although I'm hoping for more I expect to have it handed back with the coolant topped up and the instruction "keep an eye on it". £900 plus fitting I think.

I'm hurt. I even kept the whole video short for you.

To see notifications on the home screen? If it's idle I just pick it up or move it slightly and they appear. I now have visions of you standing up and leaning over your phone to get your face read rather than picking it up LOL

It'll never happen though as it would be seen as a tacit admission by Apple that they were wrong.

That's the perfect place for it to be. It falls naturally to hand every time you pick your phone up. It may be different to what you're used to but it's no less convenient. As Jaff said above, my phones unlocked, open, and on it's home screen or whatever app I was last using before it's even...

I must resist, standard's enough, standard's enough...

Nice lines! Smooth!

FLOL!

Relatively speaking you've not been around here long...this explains your complete disrespect for the gloves. You'll learn. I'm waiting on a call back from them right now to start that process! With pictures.

That can wait. I'll have several full in depth analyses of coolant levels and start up audio before that happens. Oh, and gloves, I keep meaning to work some glove love in.

A little update...yesterday morning showed a little splutter on start but nothing like the full blown misfire and plumes of burnt off coolant I've seen others have, and checking the level on a flat surface when fully warmed through showed the coolant level to be approx. 5mm lower than when it...

Oooh. 172 Cup you say. Nice. How standard is it? A clean tidy sorted standard one has me reaching for the kleenex tbqfh.

Exactly. Ford have at least now acknowledged there's a problem with these engines and are supposedly working on a fix 'for all owners'. This is the one slight positive to be taken. I may, err, have been launch it a lot lately...but I've been mechanically sympathetic while doing it 😅

I'm planning to film a video tomorrow and wanted the usual "the coolant level is fine" shot of the resevoir...so I popped the bonnet this afternoon with camera in hand to film the level and found that it's lost a good 200-300 ml or thereabouts :fearscream: It looks like mine might be about to...

It does and it is...but it's a really unnatural feeling. Most of the time at Rockingham when I managed a nice angle and had it held just so it would start shuffling power back to the front to straighten you out. It feels RWD, very much so, but only up to a point before it seems as if the Ford...

I recall this being said when I was suggesting the M4 was a better car than the M3...that the M3 was stiffer because while it does have apertures they're mostly full of heavier and stiffer stuff than the basic thinner skin of an M4 shell.

This is a good thing. Pick one up at 2 or 3 years old for pennies then run it into the ground over many many years. One of these may well become my daily instead of another Fiesta ST when I get to the point of retiring the RS.