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Elitist
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: SF Bay Area
Moto: Gix 750
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token jewboy
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: CBR 900, KLR ugly ass duckling, Gas Man
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After that I bought 2 focus's (one was my wifes) which were great until they hit 100k and I went through the gambit of car repair. between the 2 cars: 3 Crappily designed thermostat housings 3 head gaskets 3 fuel pumps 3 axles 3 (see a trend here) water pumps 3 altenators 3 steering columns 3 brake master cylinders 3 (another 3!) manual shift linkage cables 1 (no more 3's) gas tank 6 gas caps 2 windshield wiper motors 1 tourque converter 1 manual shift inkage 1 engine mount 1 non working door (it was a back door but thats why we sold the car) neither glove box would stay up 2 broken hand brake cables neither one had a cig outlet that would work longer than a few hours without blowing a fuse electric seat motor blew front brakes would only last between 15 and 20k miles Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Luckily we had 2 of them and after my car was deemed not worth it to fix anymore (128k), I put it in the driveway and used it for salvage parts. My wifes car had 124k miles and the back door sropped opening, then failed inspection so we traded it in for the fit, and got $1600 (lucky we got that much) for it. Nothing against the fiesta, I just hope you didnt have the same experience I've had with it. I've heard of some bad stuff with them already, sync system freezes, keyless entry stops working, cruise conrol issues, dual clutch auto tranny problems, CEL throwing a code for brake service, fuel pump control thingie thinking the airbags deployed, decel fuel shutoff sometimes takes too long to kick in resulting in a stalled car. Thats it, not sure how prevalent each of those problem is but thats the stuff I have heard of so far. Go here for fiesta related questions, they can answer you most stuff http://www.fiestafaction.com/forums/
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Location: Imported from Detroit
Moto: 2009 HD Street Classic
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To date, we don't have any of the issues listed above. Not even the ones that the online relm told us we would have without a doubt. Nope... not there. The problem with the Fiesta is that it's been a long running car in europe. So some of the info on the web is miss leading. Further, as I said, those built in germany these built in mexico... who knows what the differences are. I have looked at that site, but it's so big. I just don't think I have that kind of time for ANOTHER big site. |
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token jewboy
Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: CBR 900, KLR ugly ass duckling, Gas Man
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I'm member #33 on thier sister site focaljet. The focus was great until about 40k miles, then little stuff started going wrong, I got lucky that I bought the extended warranty that was good til 60k but after that I got screwed. There were also a ton of recalls, and even after the recalls were done, the fixes weren't great fixes. That is the problem with buying a first model year production car, the bugs arn't quite worked out yet. And what is scary is that both cars had the same problems at around the same mileage, if you look at the issues section from focaljet, 2000 model year there are quite a few people who's cars were built between jul 99 and may 00 that had many of the same problems
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: PA
Moto: 2010 Ducati Hypermotard
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Your lucky you didn't man. Those things are terrible for reliability. I knew three people that bought them and they traded them off within 2 years because they were junk.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Moto: '04 Kawasaki ZX6RR
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![]() Nice ride Gas Man. We just shipped one of these to Germany for testing. Did you get the one with PowerShift? |
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Holier Than Thou
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: N.B, Canada
Moto: 06 ZX10R, 18 400 Ninja, 11 KLX250s
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Nice car man. We may end up with one eventually. I always hated Ford but they've caught my eye lately. Enough so that I picked up a 2010 Fusion SEL on the first of May. Now my GF has her eye on the Fiesta to replace her 08 Accent.
It looks like a great car but I dont want to test drive one just yet. I want to keep the Accent for a while longer and test Drives just put bad ideas in my head. ![]() Absolutely love my Fusion though.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Anaheim, CA
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Accessories = Accs..not assc. Assc = Association.
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Anaheim, CA
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![]() You gotta good deal on the Camry tho..
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