The Ford Fiesta's 47-year tenure as a new car might be over, but it lives on as a cheap, fun used buy - here's how to can grab one second hand
The Fiesta is a handsome car and fun to drive but it was built to a price, a fact evident in the quality of its interior plastics, the saggy fit of the carpets, the thinness of the paint and the ‘clangy’ doors and bonnet.
Fiestas feel disposable and that’s how lots of owners have treated them. Still, as we said, there are loads to choose from and a good one is just around the corner.“Some cars arrive in the class like Roman candles, shining so bright they obscure all around them until they burn out as their faults are uncovered and their position at the top of the class is removed as quickly as it was acquired. The Ford Fiesta arrived that way but still shows no sign of fizzling out.” “I’ve got a Fiesta 1.
They are likely to be among the relatively small number whose Fiesta engines suffered premature failure of a small nylon coolant pipe, causing the motor to overheat and eventually to seize. Cars built between October 2011 and 2013 were affected. The other potential problem concerns oil starvation caused by the timing belt breaking up. It runs on oil, inside the engine. If the wrong engine oil is used or the level is allowed to fall, the belt can degrade, causing bits of it to clog the oil pick-up. Replacement is time-consuming and expensive.From early, 75,000-mile cars to 2015-reg examples with around 40,000 or 2017-reg with 70,000.
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