What did you do to your Fiesta ST today ?

[Downsy]

Today I schwacked a 18wheeler tire carcass (road gator) on the way home after holding over for a buddy for 4 hours at work, driving the Fiesta ST. Blew the driver's side fog light to pieces, I routed the ST200 intake hose into that slot for now. It also ripped out nearly all the existing mounting screws and push pins for the front bumper cover and the driver's fender liner resulted it in rubbing on the tire for the rest of the trip home, also broke the lower grille away from the bumper cover itself and ripped off the driver's side aluminum splitter. Got home pulled the front tires and did what I could with buckle type zipties, also removed the rest of the front splitter. The bumper cover needs to be replaced at this point for proper fix but it's not something I can afford to do for now especially for a DD, so ziptie engineering it is for now.

 

[Overland History]

She's been in the garage for the better part of the Summer while I've been busy as hell working.

The Clutch Slave Cylinder went out at 65K miles, so I ended up doing some "while I'm in there" things....

-New SuperPro A-Arm Upgrade(I destroyed the boots on the ball-joints when removing them with a pickle fork and HEAT!)
-New OEM Clutch
-New OEM Clutch Master Cylinder
-New OEM Clutch Slave Cylinder
-New OEM Input and Output Shaft Seals in Gearbox
-Fresh Gearbox Oil Change
-New OEM Engine Rear Main Seal
-Fresh Engine Oil Change
-New Whoosh Motorsports Rear Motor Mount Inserts
-Happy ST and Happy owner.
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[TyphoonFiST]

She's been in the garage for the better part of the Summer while I've been busy as hell working.

The Clutch Slave Cylinder went out at 65K miles, so I ended up doing some "while I'm in there" things....

-New SuperPro A-Arm Upgrade(I destroyed the boots on the ball-joints when removing them with a pickle fork and HEAT!)
-New OEM Clutch
-New OEM Clutch Master Cylinder
-New OEM Clutch Slave Cylinder
-New OEM Input and Output Shaft Seals in Gearbox
-Fresh Gearbox Oil Change
-New OEM Engine Rear Main Seal
-Fresh Engine Oil Change
-New Whoosh Motorsports Rear Motor Mount Inserts
-Happy ST and Happy owner.
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Was the Rear main leaking?

 

[WolfDampf]

Got a gear ordered from JLCPCB.com. Took a month to arrive but the communication was good and the product arrived very very well packaged and it only cost me 7$ for two gears, as a new customer. It's aluminum. If the other plastic gears end up breaking I'll get them printed in aluminum as well.

 

[M-Sport fan]

Our whole HVAC system/setup is soooo effing screwed up, I expect that even those alloy gears will break and/or strip, eventually.

WHY TF Ford (and every other manufacturer for that matter, even the supposedly 'infallibly perfect' ones!) could not have just gone with old school, simple HVAC controls, and INSIST on making things MUCH more complicated and unreliable as possible is perplexing (at least before the whole car warranty has expired).

 

[WolfDampf]

Our whole HVAC system/setup is soooo effing screwed up, I expect that even those alloy gears will break and/or strip, eventually.

WHY TF Ford (and every other manufacturer for that matter, even the supposedly 'infallibly perfect' ones!) could not have just gone with old school, simple HVAC controls, and INSIST on making things MUCH more complicated and unreliable as possible is perplexing (at least before the whole car warranty has expired).

I never understood it either. I'm really hoping the metal gears solve the issue. I'll have to report back if they ever break

 

[Overland History]

Was the Rear main leaking?

Nope, just preventative maintenance while I had the gearbox outta the car!

 

[killer5280]

Installed a Whoosh rear motor mount and 2 point trac bar on my otherwise stock (oh yeah, and the 16" Dekagrams and the Stage 1 93 octane Cobb tune) 186,000 mile 2016 ST. It didn't make the torque steer any better, but it sure did make it feel more planted in corners and tighten things up and make it better over humps and bumps.
I have a tire wearing funny, so I think I have other issues causing bad torque steer.

 

[killer5280]

Our whole HVAC system/setup is soooo effing screwed up, I expect that even those alloy gears will break and/or strip, eventually.

WHY TF Ford (and every other manufacturer for that matter, even the supposedly 'infallibly perfect' ones!) could not have just gone with old school, simple HVAC controls, and INSIST on making things MUCH more complicated and unreliable as possible is perplexing (at least before the whole car warranty has expired).

You could say that about lots of things pertaining to modern cars.

 

[Zeille]

Installed a Whoosh rear motor mount and 2 point trac bar on my otherwise stock (oh yeah, and the 16" Dekagrams and the Stage 1 93 octane Cobb tune) 186,000 mile 2016 ST. It didn't make the torque steer any better, but it sure did make it feel more planted in corners and tighten things up and make it better over humps and bumps.
I have a tire wearing funny, so I think I have other issues causing bad torque steer.

These cars barely have torque steer compared to the Focus ST... could definitely be an alignment issue.

 

[killer5280]

These cars barely have torque steer compared to the Focus ST... could definitely be an alignment issue.

Yeah, it wanders all over the road at full throttle in 2nd and 3rd gears. The inside of the right front tire is wearing noticeably.