Soon to be a new owner, seeking some advice.

[Gordon Bennett]

G'day to everyone, hopefully I'll be the proud owner of one of these fine performance hatches in the next few weeks. I've had a fair few hot hatches in my time beginning with a Renault 5 Turbo many moons ago.

In the last few years I've been transported around by hum drum but practical vehicles which were usually cheap but reliable. However my last experience wasn't so reliable, I bought an Astra K, a 2018 CDTi with just under 40k on the clock. I've had the car a year and based on my experience with it and the recent horror story it has to go (failed gearbox). Shame on you G.M. your quality control leaves little to be desired!

I'm sure this question has been asked a fair few times before and I have done a little research but I really do need to know, as a daily driver covering circa 15K miles per annum can I rely on the ST Fiesta? Are these cars free from nasty inherent design faults? I'd be looking to buy an ST-3 late 2019-2020 car with around 35k miles.

Thanks

 

[D1JL]

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Dave

 

[TyphoonFiST]

G'day to everyone, hopefully I'll be the proud owner of one of these fine performance hatches in the next few weeks. I've had a fair few hot hatches in my time beginning with a Renault 5 Turbo many moons ago.

In the last few years I've been transported around by hum drum but practical vehicles which were usually cheap but reliable. However my last experience wasn't so reliable, I bought an Astra K, a 2018 CDTi with just under 40k on the clock. I've had the car a year and based on my experience with it and the recent horror story it has to go (failed gearbox). Shame on you G.M. your quality control leaves little to be desired!

I'm sure this question has been asked a fair few times before and I have done a little research but I really do need to know, as a daily driver covering circa 15K miles per annum can I rely on the ST Fiesta? Are these cars free from nasty inherent design faults? I'd be looking to buy an ST-3 late 2019-2020 car with around 35k miles.

Thanks

Be careful of Auto theft in The EU* Take all the precautions to avoid it if possible. Enjoy the FiST!

 

[M-Sport fan]

IF you do not attempt to push stupid amounts of power through them, on race sticky gumball tyres, they are quite reliable (some on here would say even if you do 'go for broke' with the power/mod levels, but that is a story for another time ).

Those years are definitely the Mk8 ST, correct?
Or were there 'leftover' Mk7s still being sold as new that late, on the other side of the pond?

 

[scooter123]

If you can find one look for an older 4 cylinder ST, the engines have proven to be more durable than the 3 cylinder. One reason being that, as I understand it, the 3 cylinder is based on the smaller 1.0 litre engine which uses a WET timing belt. Yeah, Ford has used a timing belt running in the oil gallery in some of their engines and they tend to fail at about 100,000 miles. While I don't have any experience with any of these 3 cylinders I suspect that changing the timing belt will be an Engine Out procedure and will likely run about 2500-3000 US dollars at a dealership.

 

[M-Sport fan]

True, but one of the advantages of the 3 pot 1.5 EcoBoost is that it gets dual injection systems, port and direct.

Are we certain that the 1.5 uses the very same wet timing belt setup as the 1.0's??