What did you do to your Fiesta ST today ?

[rallytaff]

Had my front and rear in-car cameras installed today by a reliable company in Burbank. Very unobtrusive hidden behind my rear view mirror and the other on my hatch window. Took 2hrs as I got the hard wired version.

 

[Intuit]

Went to replace the bushing for my AWR RMM, Sucker was seized on there and stripped out when I tried to remove it. Had to take it to a local shop who welded a bolt to get it out for me. Not sure what the heck the previous shop did when I had the motor replaced, but this thing was not coming out under normal means. (Though, it could be bent since I'm pushing a lot of power and am quite hard on the car for autocross)

Replaced the hardware with the Whoosh anodized bolts.

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I had taken a prior vehicle to get an alignment after tie-rod replacement. Took way longer than normal. Service manager eventually came back and said an adjustment bolt was seized. Made no sense, since this was brand new hardware. (should've been able to tell that) Got it back and sure enough, they had chewed up a brand new lock nut and tie-rod end. Looking at the nut, it was easy to deduce that the mechanic doing the alignment was turning it the wrong way.

 

[rallytaff]

I had taken a prior vehicle to get an alignment after tie-rod replacement. Took way longer than normal. Service manager eventually came back and said an adjustment bolt was seized. Made no sense, since this was brand new hardware. (should've been able to tell that) Got it back and sure enough, they had chewed up a brand new lock nut and tie-rod end. Looking at the nut, it was easy to deduce that the mechanic doing the alignment was turning it the wrong way.

Hope they paid for the replacement parts with no labour costs!

 

[Grsemky]

More of a PITA than it should be for something that should be changed on a regular basis. But if you have some basic mechanical skill you'll be ok.

I came across this scrolling Reddit lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/FiestaST/comments/1q9jkyc View: https://www.reddit.com/r/FiestaST/comments/1q9jkyc/first_half_the_intake_has_to_come_off_for_the/

 

[SteveS]

You don't have to take anywhere near that much stuff off to change the cabin air filter. Just the side console cover, the air filter cover. That's it. The hard part is realizing how much you have to squish the filter to get it into the slot.

 

[pixelzombie]

I put in a set of Whoosh coils the other day. Not only was the idle improved, but it sure felt smoother cruising along on the highway. The titanium bolts look nice, but overkill IMHO

 

[limapalon]

I came across this scrolling Reddit lol
https://www.reddit.com/r/FiestaST/comments/1q9jkyc View: https://www.reddit.com/r/FiestaST/comments/1q9jkyc/first_half_the_intake_has_to_come_off_for_the/

Lmao that's me, hi!

As for what I did to my FiST today - I swapped my gauge cluster.


Went from a bog standard USDM Imperial gauge cluster to...

A Canadian gauge cluster in metric! Like how I love in my cars. Another upside is that now after the battery is disconnected the cluster doesn't revert to Imperial.

It needed some reprogramming in Forscan as it came out of a 2016 with Recaros. Initially I was getting DTCs for the heated seats and mirrors (Which obviously weren't there and my car doesn't have the Recaros). Also it wasn't starting.

After writing both the IPC configuration and IPC as built data the Bean calmed down and accepted the keys without throwing an immobiliser fault. Engine started.

Downside is my odometer jumped 2,000 km lol. But I can live with that.

Edit: I forgot to mention I changed the speedo calibration as well to ensure the speedo was accurate. Otherwise I imagine it would've tried to display MPH even though the markings on it are now in km/h