I see, it’s just from what I see I don’t see those cars at the top of reliability standards, so I expect the Fiesta ST to be around the same. I have a hard time knowing what to believe with these cars because I either see people get high mileage beating the snot out of the car every day with zero issues whatsoever and on the other side I see people getting horrible luck with transmissions, turbos blowing up, and all sorts of weird issues. It’s like there is no in between with these cars haha
I know I owned a Focus with one of those transmissions and like was also mentioned you had to know how to drive it. If you did not it would do things that manuals do but automatics don’t, which most people did not understand. Mine drove great because I knew.
That aside our engines are pretty damn reliable and so our are transmissions. People blow Turbo’s because they push them hard with too much boost. People have transmission issues because they beat on them .
I talked to my service guy at Ford about it because my car just came down with the dreaded blend door actuator disease.
The mating call of our cars.
(I am a month away from the end of my 3 year 36k mile bumper to bumper warranty. Yikes its almost been 3 years I have owned this thing.)
He said they do not see many if any trans issues on all the FiST’s they service and they are the Worlds largest Ford dealer.
So ya I have tossed around the idea of an extended warranty only for the sake of stuff like that. Lots of people fix them on their own though. You just have to learn to be a contortionist to do it.
The other thing to watch for is possible weeping axle seals. Thats another it does not happen to all but some thing.
Otherwise ya they are actually pretty damn good little cars.