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Nope. Apart from the misfire on startup and the dwindling coolant level it performed exactly as it always did. Popped and banged when I'd expect it to, used as much fuel as it normally did, and traced the same curve at the rolling road. As I said in my video I think the 'problem' is only a...

LOLs Nope, no back doors. I like the slightly chavvy but still classy (in my colour) RS just fine. It's also now been posted on an Australian petrol head site in a "here's some news that really isn't news, but someone else reported on it as if it is news, so maybe it actually is news, so...

I'm really not and I have zero desire to be so. As for the article, it's actually nothing new at all...they've just cobbled together some old news and, for reasons unknown to me, have chosen to reference my specific video. It's generated a bit of online debate though...and a lot of brand...

So this happened a few hours ago... https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/ford-focus-rs-engine-problem-confirmed-cause-white-smoke It had nothing to do with me! I'm only aware of it because someone posted it in a comment on one of my recent videos...I'm enjoying watching the spike in...

It's meant to have enough revisions to make them properly watertight. Time will tell if they've got that right. There's meant to be a Feb 18 recall coming along to address for all owners so I'd seriosly doubt if they're about to commit to that project that they still haven't ironed out the bugs...

Wow. Lurvely. Seeing that looking that good makes me feel 16 again.

I am going to go with the datalog every single rpm and mile from day one with this one. Annoyingly I'll have to collect it during work time so I won't be able to get everything wired in until I get home on on whatever evening it is this week. Missing the first 15 miles upsets me. At least its...

...and surprisingly exactly on schedule. High fives all round tbqfh.

I see it as fantastic news! I'm back to zero miles on my engine and it's come with a whole load of new parts and revisions...and hopefully a full fix to the problem of the leaking coolant...I'm still working on trying to find that out for sure though.

The new engine is in! Exactly on schedule which is promising. I haven't seen it yet, it has to be road tested first which should be happening on Monday but, subject to no teething troubles with it, I should have it back early next week.

I'd call them up and check what you were told again...I have no idea why they're charging you a per month fee for the extra boxes...a big major selling point of Sky Q is that you can add extra rooms for no ongoing charges, just the one off hardware and/or setup fee...well it was when we signed...

They're not billing you £12 per month for the multi room, as said above by others, you buy the hardware, the service is free. The £12 a month is for the upgrade to Sky Q itself.

They genuinely have little awareness of my YT expolits...but they've been seeing me regularly for Fiesta, C-Max, and RS work over the last two years. I'm calm, polite, and much as you may not believe this, to the point about what I want and expect. They're just acting in the way that anyone...

Useful! Thanks Dan. REV1...that's a generic term or something specific to Ford? It's now 2,876. Madness, it just keeps ticking upwards...my first "engine's gone" video is nudging 75k views as well. I feel a good few trackdays are coming next year off the back of all this! #viral #legend

In other news, my engine arrived at the dealership yesterday 3 days ahead of schedule, it looks like you may be right @imprezaworks :laughing: They called me to advise and also answered some of my questions. I said those answers weren't good enough, try again. They're going back to Ford and...

I've given no thought to this whatsoever...it's not even occurred to me to ask. If I got the warranty extended that would be something I guess...but as I still have 4.5 years remaining of my original warranty that would be of little value or comfort as if it were to all go wrong again it'll do...

It's more than a Veyron. Jus' sayin'.

Stringbacks give a better purchase.

More and more are crawling out of the woodwork now. There's quite a few on their third engine! I've been told by ore than a few Ford people that the issue is definitely fixed now although not one of them can tell me how. When I know and understand that I'll maybe start believing it. Until then...

It is exactly that, the RWD sense and the fact you can adjust the attitude of the car exiting a corner using the throttle. I've been thinking about rigging up a permanent datalogger for the new one so that I can see how well I stick to the 5k rpm/75% throttle run-in limits and also what...

I spent last night watching FK8 Type R reviews :mask: I'll see what the dealership say this week...if they don't or won't or can't tell me how the new engine is different and how it has been changed to avoid the specific failure I suffered I may look to reject the car based on the six month...

The Mustang unit certainly doesn't seem to have the distortion problem of the RS. The change of materials and redesign seem to have screwed everything right up for the RS.

If I knew everything I'm now aware of before I ordered, I wouldn't have ordered. It's a major problem with no easy fix from Ford as far as I can see.

I've had a lot of time to think about this over the last week in the slow-ass Kuga and, genuinely, I think they could...every single one of them.

Ignoring my recent blip over the last week, over the 28 day period before that I had 35k views and earned £40. Over that same period he's had 9.3m views. That's circa £11k pcm. And in the whole scheme of things his channel, with 1m subscribers, is small fry. Zoella has 12x as many subscribers...

They do! I had a set sat in my shed for ages back when I had my 172 Cup and was shocked when I pushed my thumb into the sidewall...disposable carrier bags have more substance in them!

Roundabouts and being slightly under presure? On every car I've ever had (except my wife's for the obvious reasons) which up until the RS have all been FWD I've always worn the front left quickest and particularly the outside edge way more than on the front right.

I've no idea, my 'channel' (I hate calling it that!) just sort of happened! In the beginning (my first upload was November 2006) all I ever wanted to do was share track exploits. Then when I had my ST I started thinking about things I personally would like to watch/see...like how to change brake...

I have a browser add on that helps me manage my YT activities and it shows me info you don't normally get to see...like keywords used on other videos (so you can pinch the most successful ones) and also what the earnings are. Some of the bigger ones quite comfortably earn six figures per...