Hope you enjoy, also don't forget to check out my debut on the Shifting metal Podcast channel (LINK BELOW) @shiftingmetal where I joined Joe, James and Dave for a chat (y)
I owned an Ecoboost Focus 1.0 for 3 years, bought at 2 years old. The engine failed at under 35k with an internal coolant leak. The mechanic said buy a new engine. Ford did nothing to help. The car was eventually scrapped
I've had mine for 10 years,100k km. Not a single problem in that time. Even has the original exhaust. I replace tires, brakes, oil, filters, coolant. Might break tomorrow, but good so far.
When I was recently back In the uk I bought my daughter a fiesta automatic, I made sure it was not an ecoboom, in no small part because of your videos, thank you
@@Matty12333 Yeah but standard maintaince isn't enough with wet belts and especially badly designed engines like the 1.0 ecoboost where wet belts are not the only issue. Chains almost never snap either with chain driven engiens it's the tensioners breaking that cause problems. Cambelts only snap if not replaced within specified intervals and even then most standard timing belts last way longer than interval. Wet belts even with full dealer servicing in line with intervals is not always enough for wetbelts.
@@Matty12333 ford said there belts were good for 100000 miles most go before 30000 in which case they are not long out of warranty so you would expect to have it checked weekly ? monthly ? cos that would be ridicules right ? would it if you were sitting in a time bomb ?
Back to my college days.A petrol engine needs four things to enable it to run. Fuel, compression, Ignition and air. Had to point this out to a garage who bent all the inlet valves on my car and denied any wrong doing. The court saw it differently !!!! Great Channel as always.
I bought a car from a garage a while back and I was looking at their current stock last week, and thanks to you I knew to avoid, as most of it has ecoboom and puresh1t engines. Thanks Lee. 👍
It's seems there are hundreds of ecobooms for sale at the moment. I get dealers need to sell stock to make money but as a cosumer I'd avoid them completely
That's class that you've collaborated with Joe and the other youtube car sales guys. I'd say I enjoy your videos the best but Shifting metal is a close second! :)
Its an education on cars listening what each of these individual cars have go wrong with them. That eco car such a waste of money and not worth the cash. A never again car. The guy made a better choice buying that other car from you. Every week never a boring job always some drama with the car business. Good video.
@Interdimensional27 well, talks about reducing service interval to 4-5K + quality oil nearly lulled me. I really like focus. Could have been the rocket.
Ford say they have solved the issues with the Ecoboom, In reality all they have done is reduce the service and belt replacement intervals but they still go wrong
Sadly Honda was the same way a few years back with their 1.0L engines. £1800 every 5 years with the dealer or £800-£1300 at an indy. But on the plus side it seems they learned their lesson.
@@carukchannelyou've also to be careful with some VW chains 3 cylinder and 1.2 Polo etc....when the chain stretches slightly theres a chance of jumping the chain when doing a simple oil change. The tensioner uses oil for tension and when you first start the car after an oil change there's a chance the chain can jump as the tensioner isn't fully tensioned and there's some stretch in the chain....it causes alot of damage.
I have a Ford Focus Ecoboost, came across your channel a few months ago. Needless to say I'm saving for a newer car, I just hope I can afford a new one before my current car dies on me. Thanks for your videos
Maintain your car well and you’ll be fine. Hope it was well maintained before your ownership too. Cheaper option is just go get the wet belt done on your car if you are worried don’t replace the car because of one component
It's a 1.0 unfortunately. Thanks for the advice, it's missed one service, the year before I bought it. But I service it every year, fingers crossed its ok
Love the videos. Nice to actually see there's still a few decent car dealers left. As for that 11 plate merriva. BURN IT from experience NEVER AGAIN would I have one. You name it I replaced it on a merriva I owned and it was still never right. 2 and a half grand in a month spent on it and I practically gave it away before I lost my sanity.
Just had to replace this 1L engine on our 2017 focus from wetbelt failure, New core fitted only to be told the turbo also had been destroyed by the wetbelt teeth. Only hearing about this flimsy de-gas pipe with head gasket failure, so glad to hear Ford have designed this bomb with multiple fuses
I've seen a recent Ford model where they replaced the wet belt with a chain, and in an apparent F-you to their customers the drive belt was still wet and its replacement still needed the chain removed. Needless to say I'm done with Fords.
You mean the oil pump belt is wet yeah even though they swapped it to timing chain it boggles the mind that they are still doing a wet belt and still a wet belt in the transit ecoblue diesels it's probably even worse in those because u will have fuel dilution from dpf regens that will eat the belt faster
@@sbrader97 A commercial engine typically has a harder life anyway so it just accelerates the problem. Tell me this, have you ever seen a Amazon or DPD van that isn't being driven by a mad man racer.
I agree on the Astra H's, loved my old 54 plate diesel with the Z17DTH engine, they are bombproof apart from the swirl flaps jamming and needing new manifold! Causes a loss of power until you hit 2,000rpm, they had big turbos! Replaced it with a 2016 Astra K 3 cylinder 1 litre turbo (B10XFL), no issues at 49,874 miles! So responsive, a fun car to drive! Better than the 1.4 and 1.6 versions!
Looks like original pipes , There is an upgrade to mk3.5 coolant pipes. But it still has that plastic straw type pipe to side of engine that just clips in , very poor design as rubber pipes have proved very reliable for decades .
You my man are 1 of the most trustworthy dealers/ TH-camrs on tube, if you lived further south down the country I'd be a regular buyer from you, unfortunately your a wee bit too far north for me to travel, but you seem to be a thoroughly nice guy 😊
As an old mechanic from the 1960s nothing about Fords surprises me, they were rubbish then and they're even worse now. I used to deal in cars but wouldn't touch any Fords with a barge pole.
@Shane-zx4ps I could never understand why, but I think it's often because they've never tried anything else. That often changes when they've had a load of trouble with one. Mt company has just had new engines in 2 Transits at 77k and 110k miles, will never buy another one.
Supplied the Nazis with tanks for the two world wars aswell. Horrible company owned by filth. I did have a 2006 Zetec 1.6 petrol for 8 years mind. It was what my Dad advised me to buy, when I was buying the second car I ever owned. I must say not a single thing went wrong with it.
Then it must be something to do with the makers Australian EA - EB fords easily got 750,000 klm even when used as a taxi My current personal vehicle which is a Holdem/GM Captiva CA 2014 model has 400,000 klm on it and is still going
I have had 3 Fords , two Sierra's and one Escort van . Never had any trouble , but wet belts and 1.0 litre Turbo's no . I will stick with my Chain driven Honda . ps thanks for your Engine information , many people like my Sister Inlaw pick her car by " Oh , thats a nice Colour " 🤣
1st time watching this video and being a ford rs owners club member such a honest guy and so truly right in what he said we as members of ford new this from the beginning and ford was told and refused advice from former ford nuts that a 1lt eco boost was a very bad idea not as bad as the 2.0 st eco boost but sill have loads of issues nevertheless at least they didn’t have a wet belt! They are called eco boom for a reason and ford never learned from the start of the builds even the 2.3 focus rs mk3 have a week bottom end and put con rods though the side of the block the usa even use a 2.0 eco boost bottom end to replace the 2.3 rs bottom end to make the stronger just goes to show what a pattern there is on different cc engines of fords 👍
Li, those dead cars in the corner reminded me of something. I walked past that infamous FIAT 500 yellow taxi cab here in Portsmouth complete with a PCN on the screen. couldn't believe my eyes!!! (picture available)
Gutted for your customer with the Ecoboost,but you can't predict a hose failing after 14 months.seems on this occasion the wet belt hasn't been the cause of the engine going bad.
Was the car running the redesigned pipe as part of the first recall? If it wasn't you might have a case with Ford as the 12 plate was part of the recall.
Hi Lee,with reference to that focus, you mention that a second hand 1.0 liter ecoboost is very expensive and a 1.6 liter 4 cylinder engine is cheaper.why don't you replace this damaged engine with a second hand 1.6 liter unit?
Hi Lee, great content keep the videos coming. What's your opinion on the mild hybrid eco boosts with chains? I know it's probably too early to make judgements and they still have a belt on the oil pump for whatever reason. such a shame as they drive well.
Random question and for give my ignorance could you not put a standard 1.6 engine into a 1 L eco-boost engine bay or is it too small for the 1.6 engine?
Eco boom as they are known in the circle,welt belt is the problem on these shit engines….if I was selling cars I’d avoid buying any of these eco boom engines…
My dad had one on the fourcourt sold to the customer done the wet belt and then the engine done the same thing as yours so currently in the process of buying another engine , had to buy back of the customer been sitting on our drive away for a couple months now poor car 😂😂
You wouldn't, but they've outsourced their engines from Mazda, Peugeot, and Renault in the years before. The Ford engines were either ancient designs or from their American division. I guess they've forgotten how to engineer a reliable engine. I didn't think the 2.0 Ecoboost was that bad, but you could only find it with a manual gearbox in the Focus ST. In the Mondeo, it was only available with the insanely unreliable Powershift automatic transmission. The only good Mondeo of the final model was the hybrid one.
It's a sad state that when all acar needs is an engine, the complexity and shiteness behind some of today's engines means that it just ain't worth it. Ecobooms being the case in point
Neighbours daughter bought one after I told her to buy a Toyota Corolla. 2 months later another neighbour bought one as she liked the colour. ....😬 .....I give up.
Stuff like this has happened to me many times in my life. People don't listen only to pull that all to familiar face sometime later. Just have to accept that some people need to learn the hard way.
I always tell people to buy Japanese especially Toyota but besides my Mum I have convinced nobody but boy am I very unsypmathetic when their cars break. My Mum bought a Suzuki Alto I checked it over before she did but told her it was almost perfect besides one missing service. Nah people want muh premium badger especially the German stuff. I know someone who has a Ranger Rover and they're on their 3rd engine because the timing chain failed twice both were replaced under warranty but just imagine paying outside of warranty. I laugh at them and show them zero sympathy especially when they could have bought a Lexus SUV.
I first heard of this EcoBoost coolant issue many years ago when a cousin's good friend's Focus caught fire in the Mersey Tunnel, an HGV driver stopped and put it out - coolant (which is flammable when atomised - a la Pontiac Fiero) sprayed onto the exhaust and up it went, Ford tried to charge over £10k for new wiring, new engine etc until I stepped in. In this instance I recall it was a faulty aluminium casting, from Mexico. Re glow plugs, for future ref a mobile specialist from Yorkshire guarantees and removed those broken from a friend's Mk6 Fiesta 1.6 Ford/PSA. On my Merc I soaked for three days in best penetrating oil then loosened off with a special premium socket on a 1/4" drive impact wrench, starting on the lowest setting.
Rented a Focus in France a few years back, 4 passengers on board, lovely to drive, no bother going up the Alps and economical, I thought it was a diesel until I went to refuel it, realised it was petrol, later pulled the bonnet thinking it was a 1.6 petrol but no only 3 cylinders, the boom machine. A shame , reliability is proper engineering
This happened to my mk7.5 fiesta st 1.6. temp gauge never ever raised above half, only indication something was wrong was the smoke out the back on the motorway
Hi Lee hope you’re well mate 👍🏻 I am in the market for an evoque north west based (Runcorn way) would you be able to recommend any auctions that may have some in? Thank you I know you’ve done a few videos evoques hence why I’m asking 👍🏻
Lovely I’ll have a look 😄 keep up the videos aswell very insightful (even though I’ve convinced myself about 5 times not to buy an evoque after the 2 litre chat 😂
I’ve seen two issues with diesels that crank for a long time but dont start. Leaky injectors that are leaking over night flooding the engine (would make sense as it smokes on start up) not leaking enough to effect running but enough in say 10-12 hours to slightly flood the engine. Or return pipe not holding pressure so pressures off on first start in the morning. I’d put my money on leaky injectors causing long cranking as you mentioned it smokes.
Would I buy a car of you? Yes I would it is quite simple you are highly intelligent where cars are concerned and you know your craft. Unfortunately you have had a run of bad luck lately but that is the nature of the beast especially in car sales. Good luck in the future Lee 👍👍
I thought maybe Ford could of done something on the 1.25 Fiesta engine?Maybe made it greener.Could of kept it in production & used for different models as it is such a proven reliable engine.
Lee. That’s mad as toast. Sump off good as gold rare wet belt and new recent engine. Then….. coolant problem and driver doesn’t pull over temp way way over. Likey flashing red. What an engine these are. Throw away tech. What a sorry state many a later engine design is.
My Fiesta Ecoboost got new wet belts under warranty when it failed at 14000 miles in 2019. Now has 33K on it and I'm replacing the belts and a few other parts in the new year when it will be 10 years old. It's been cheap to run, zero car tax and handles well. I change oil religiously every 5000 miles. I agree they can have issues and are not recommended if high mileage is your thing. Ignore Fords overoptimistic claims regarding servicing and oil change intervals.
Wet Cam Belts avoid!!! The cambelts shred tiny bits of the rubber into the engine oil during normal use which is not an issue on a normal belt but these particulates then block the oil holes up in the cylinder block the engine gets very grumpy about it - Ford have known about this for ages but keep trying to hide the issue which is very very naughty and they should sit on the naughty step
I said, "No compression", on first hearing the turning. I've heard that a few times in my life. BUT, never on a Renault, or Peugeot, or Citroën, or SEAT, or Škoda. It was mostly my Fords. Not my 100E, upgraded to a 107E, nor my Cortina Mk1 GT, nor my Lotus Cortina Mk1, nor my Escort Mk1 van, used for 16 years as a DJ's transport! Just the modern ones.
Im 1mi 5sec into your video while your explaining Vehicle Score Sponser. Your video title is I SOLD A CUSTOMER A FORD ECOBOOST - NOW IT'S BLOWN UP. I look upto the top right hand corner of the next TH-cam suggestion and it's one of your video's from 2 months ago with the title " I BOUGHT A BROKEN FORD ECOBOOST". ..........Priceless.
Lee you have a vlog saying don’t touch these😂. The manufacturers need a group action against them, they clearly aren’t for for purpose. I has a couple of 1.25 zetecs were fabulous cars with nimble chassis
It's worth avoiding the modern drama junk and concentrate of good cars. Yaris, Corolla and the better older cars - Astra H, Focus 1 and 2 but finding nice ones is getting hard now.
These engines have hot spots and in turn the coolant runs burning hot. The temp gauges do not show the true temp of the engine. The high coolant temp causes all coolant components to fail. Expansion bottles. Degas hoses. Water pumps. Various gaskets or hoses. It's just your luck as to what coolant component fails.
If I owned a "Wet Belt" Engine vehicle the first thing I would do would be check google to see if there was a Timing Chain Conversion Kit available for the engine. Who wants an engine with Belt teeth clogging the Vacuum Pump Pick Up and apparently reducing braking reliability.... Well Done Ford for not recalling this issue as I believe it did in the USA for 140K Eco boost Vehicles (Auto Boxes Only.. but hey who's meet an American who can drive a "Stick-Shift" Transmission?)
Hi Lee, I'm looking to by a Citroen DS3 going to look at one this week, it has the 1.6 petrol non turbo engine, what's your thoughts on that particular engine 🤔
We had a 125bhp fiesta ecoboost (13 plate) absolutely brilliant car to drive , decend performance, decent mpg, £0 road tax. BUT after 108'000 miles ( 1 water pipe replaced by me at £20) as it cracked while i checked it. The worry and potential cost of the wet belts (timing and water pump) was making me loose sleep. Quote was £1300 ( on a car worth £3600)didnt make economical sense, so i part exchanged it for a 17 plate kia rio (1.0 turbo petrol, chain, remap and 140bhp).
One of my neighbours got a ford ecoboost, if anything just the paint work is shockingly bad, every single panel aged a different shade of red. They'll get the wet belt issue sooner of later.
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Hope you enjoy, also don't forget to check out my debut on the Shifting metal Podcast channel (LINK BELOW) @shiftingmetal where I joined Joe, James and Dave for a chat (y)
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Loved hearing your backstory & how you kept going 👍🙏top man👍
See you soon Lee, hopefully this week 🚙
Great podcast I was watching you guys on Sunday night.
Good to see you on there , all my favorite car guy's together .
The 1.0 Ecoboost - the gift that keeps giving.
I owned an Ecoboost Focus 1.0 for 3 years, bought at 2 years old. The engine failed at under 35k with an internal coolant leak. The mechanic said buy a new engine. Ford did nothing to help. The car was eventually scrapped
I've had mine for 10 years,100k km. Not a single problem in that time. Even has the original exhaust. I replace tires, brakes, oil, filters, coolant. Might break tomorrow, but good so far.
@@slugboy123dyour one of the very lucky ones
Your mechanic is an asset to the pitch. Looking forward to the Meriva video.
When I was recently back In the uk I bought my daughter a fiesta automatic, I made sure it was not an ecoboom, in no small part because of your videos, thank you
I hope it doesn't have the power shift transmission.
I wouldn't touch any car which has a wet belt with a barge pole.
Exactly rude boy 👍
I have seen timing belts snap and chains snap too. Maintenance is key on all
@@Matty12333 Yeah but standard maintaince isn't enough with wet belts and especially badly designed engines like the 1.0 ecoboost where wet belts are not the only issue. Chains almost never snap either with chain driven engiens it's the tensioners breaking that cause problems. Cambelts only snap if not replaced within specified intervals and even then most standard timing belts last way longer than interval. Wet belts even with full dealer servicing in line with intervals is not always enough for wetbelts.
@@Matty12333That's not relevant.
@@Matty12333 ford said there belts were good for 100000 miles most go before 30000 in which case they are not long out of warranty so you would expect to have it checked weekly ? monthly ? cos that would be ridicules right ? would it if you were sitting in a time bomb ?
Back to my college days.A petrol engine needs four things to enable it to run. Fuel, compression, Ignition and air. Had to point this out to a garage who bent all the inlet valves on my car and denied any wrong doing. The court saw it differently !!!! Great Channel as always.
F.A.S.T.: Fuel, Air, Spark, Timing, although I guess that's really FAST-C.
5 things
Need a key to make them go too
Back in my college days hasn't left college yet 🤦
Excellent customer service as normal Lee.
Great update Lee. Hopefully, you sell a few more this week. Your mechanic is an asset to your pitch. Have a great week Lee.
I bought a car from a garage a while back and I was looking at their current stock last week, and thanks to you I knew to avoid, as most of it has ecoboom and puresh1t engines. Thanks Lee. 👍
Just spend a bit more and get a Japanese car as long as it isn't the Hondas with the new 1.0 VTEC and 1.5 VTEC
I've decided if I want a new cheapy car I'll drive to Crewe for it. More likely to go 2nd hand EV though
@@gravemind6536 The 1.5L uses a chain; it's the 1.0L where they cheaped out.
It's seems there are hundreds of ecobooms for sale at the moment. I get dealers need to sell stock to make money but as a cosumer I'd avoid them completely
Great Lee, enjoyed the podcast too - it was great to see you finally on with the other guys
Some years ago I worked for Ford in their quality control department. I left after 3-years, never having found any😉
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That's class that you've collaborated with Joe and the other youtube car sales guys. I'd say I enjoy your videos the best but Shifting metal is a close second! :)
Thanks mr mackem 👍👍
Any 3 cylinder petrol with turbo is a disaster waiting to happen !!. 👍🏴🦊
Its an education on cars listening what each of these individual cars have go wrong with them. That eco car such a waste of money and not worth the cash. A never again car. The guy made a better choice buying that other car from you. Every week never a boring job always some drama with the car business. Good video.
Thanks. I was literally considering buying 1L ecoboost
Might be best to unconsider it now
@Interdimensional27 well, talks about reducing service interval to 4-5K + quality oil nearly lulled me. I really like focus. Could have been the rocket.
Thank you for your video, 100% I won't buy a car with a wet belt after this. Love your honesty on white car and giving refund of deposit to client.
Ford say they have solved the issues with the Ecoboom, In reality all they have done is reduce the service and belt replacement intervals but they still go wrong
Agree with that, they have also massively reduced the belt change on the 2.0 diesels which run wet belts as they keep snapping early
Sadly Honda was the same way a few years back with their 1.0L engines. £1800 every 5 years with the dealer or £800-£1300 at an indy.
But on the plus side it seems they learned their lesson.
I saw a 2017 fiesta with 49,000 miles and full service history but I didn't buy it
As far as I know the newer ones have chains, if the timing belt cover is silver metal its a chain.... black plastic it's a wet belt.
@@carukchannelyou've also to be careful with some VW chains 3 cylinder and 1.2 Polo etc....when the chain stretches slightly theres a chance of jumping the chain when doing a simple oil change. The tensioner uses oil for tension and when you first start the car after an oil change there's a chance the chain can jump as the tensioner isn't fully tensioned and there's some stretch in the chain....it causes alot of damage.
I have a Ford Focus Ecoboost, came across your channel a few months ago. Needless to say I'm saving for a newer car, I just hope I can afford a new one before my current car dies on me. Thanks for your videos
If it's a 1.6 you should be ok.
Maintain your car well and you’ll be fine. Hope it was well maintained before your ownership too.
Cheaper option is just go get the wet belt done on your car if you are worried don’t replace the car because of one component
It's a 1.0 unfortunately. Thanks for the advice, it's missed one service, the year before I bought it. But I service it every year, fingers crossed its ok
Get it serviced at a Ford dealer and you’ll be okay. Problem is people don’t get them serviced or use local garages that don’t do a proper job.
Thank you
Lee. Solid POD!!! Enjoyed hearing about your auction you ran. Landlord Bhatch not the best. Good stuff.
Thanks Bud 👍
Great video. Feels like my time is coming with mine and only on 35k 2018...Wish I knew about these belts before I bought it 👍
You can get a new timing belt and water pump belt fitted for around £1000. Depends on how long you want to keep it.
Love the videos. Nice to actually see there's still a few decent car dealers left. As for that 11 plate merriva. BURN IT from experience NEVER AGAIN would I have one. You name it I replaced it on a merriva I owned and it was still never right. 2 and a half grand in a month spent on it and I practically gave it away before I lost my sanity.
I was lost for words when my sister bought a Ford with a Ecoboom engine I’m keeping 🤐
Just had to replace this 1L engine on our 2017 focus from wetbelt failure, New core fitted only to be told the turbo also had been destroyed by the wetbelt teeth. Only hearing about this flimsy de-gas pipe with head gasket failure, so glad to hear Ford have designed this bomb with multiple fuses
Great to see you on the podcast with with joe & chop,s .
With ya hood up, I thought the Jedi had landed 😂, great insight video again. 😎👍
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Great video Lee, yes good to see you on the car dealer podcast, tonight has been great viewing
I saw a short of Shifting Metal which is also great to watch, getting to where our are now with your last £80 is admirable👍
Really enjoyed the podcast as you 4 are the best on TH-cam by a mile
Thanks matt
I've got a 2012 ecobost 950cc ,,still runs bang on not had any issue with it at all full service history 77,000 ,,,,,
Great to hear
Every trader should be like you lee👍
I've seen a recent Ford model where they replaced the wet belt with a chain, and in an apparent F-you to their customers the drive belt was still wet and its replacement still needed the chain removed.
Needless to say I'm done with Fords.
You mean the oil pump belt is wet yeah even though they swapped it to timing chain it boggles the mind that they are still doing a wet belt and still a wet belt in the transit ecoblue diesels it's probably even worse in those because u will have fuel dilution from dpf regens that will eat the belt faster
@@sbrader97 A commercial engine typically has a harder life anyway so it just accelerates the problem. Tell me this, have you ever seen a Amazon or DPD van that isn't being driven by a mad man racer.
@gravemind6536 Yeah and left idle for hours too
VW use a wet belt on the 2.0 Tdi for the oil pump too.
There should be a website where you can check for wet belt engines.
There is, it's called google
I agree on the Astra H's, loved my old 54 plate diesel with the Z17DTH engine, they are bombproof apart from the swirl flaps jamming and needing new manifold! Causes a loss of power until you hit 2,000rpm, they had big turbos! Replaced it with a 2016 Astra K 3 cylinder 1 litre turbo (B10XFL), no issues at 49,874 miles! So responsive, a fun car to drive! Better than the 1.4 and 1.6 versions!
Looks like original pipes , There is an upgrade to mk3.5 coolant pipes. But it still has that plastic straw type pipe to side of engine that just clips in , very poor design as rubber pipes have proved very reliable for decades .
We just twisted the pipe when they first gave problems, took them to Ford's and they fitted a new engine😂....no problems at all.
love your honesty my wife has a vauxhall wet belt great video
Have to admire the Focus owner, if in doubt, flat out 😅 Shame for him though, hope the wee Peugeot serves him well.
You my man are 1 of the most trustworthy dealers/ TH-camrs on tube, if you lived further south down the country I'd be a regular buyer from you, unfortunately your a wee bit too far north for me to travel, but you seem to be a thoroughly nice guy 😊
Many thanks jerry
I agree - I am rather too far north being in Perthshire! I have however, learned loads from Lee about Fiats, Fords. Kia, etc. Keep 'em coming, Lee.
Thank You.. Excellent video and info👍
Im here from chops garage, youre another great dealer to follow
Welcome aboard! 👍👍
As an old mechanic from the 1960s nothing about Fords surprises me, they were rubbish then and they're even worse now. I used to deal in cars but wouldn't touch any Fords with a barge pole.
I 100% agree with you but the ordinary joe love them
@Shane-zx4ps I could never understand why, but I think it's often because they've never tried anything else. That often changes when they've had a load of trouble with one. Mt company has just had new engines in 2 Transits at 77k and 110k miles, will never buy another one.
@@nigelbarratt6825 I’m a Honda man for most of my life and have moved to Lexus hybrid.
Supplied the Nazis with tanks for the two world wars aswell. Horrible company owned by filth.
I did have a 2006 Zetec 1.6 petrol for 8 years mind. It was what my Dad advised me to buy, when I was buying the second car I ever owned. I must say not a single thing went wrong with it.
Then it must be something to do with the makers
Australian EA - EB fords easily got 750,000 klm even when used as a taxi
My current personal vehicle which is a Holdem/GM Captiva CA 2014 model has 400,000 klm on it and is still going
I have had 3 Fords , two Sierra's and one Escort van . Never had any trouble , but wet belts and 1.0 litre Turbo's no . I will stick with my Chain driven Honda . ps thanks for your Engine information , many people like my Sister Inlaw pick her car by " Oh , thats a nice Colour " 🤣
Loved the podcast. I hope you can do it again soon.
I hope so too!
1st time watching this video and being a ford rs owners club member such a honest guy and so truly right in what he said we as members of ford new this from the beginning and ford was told and refused advice from former ford nuts that a 1lt eco boost was a very bad idea not as bad as the 2.0 st eco boost but sill have loads of issues nevertheless at least they didn’t have a wet belt! They are called eco boom for a reason and ford never learned from the start of the builds even the 2.3 focus rs mk3 have a week bottom end and put con rods though the side of the block the usa even use a 2.0 eco boost bottom end to replace the 2.3 rs bottom end to make the stronger just goes to show what a pattern there is on different cc engines of fords 👍
Looking forward to seeing the A3 Lee
Aint those ecoboost the cars you have said are crap in previous videos and warned us not to buy lol. 😂😂😂
Li, those dead cars in the corner reminded me of something. I walked past that infamous FIAT 500 yellow taxi cab here in Portsmouth complete with a PCN on the screen. couldn't believe my eyes!!! (picture available)
Gutted for your customer with the Ecoboost,but you can't predict a hose failing after 14 months.seems on this occasion the wet belt hasn't been the cause of the engine going bad.
Agree real shame, if it had not gone on the motorway he possibly would of saved it by pulling over. Thanks for watching tom
Was the car running the redesigned pipe as part of the first recall? If it wasn't you might have a case with Ford as the 12 plate was part of the recall.
Hi Lee,with reference to that focus, you mention that a second hand 1.0 liter ecoboost is very expensive and a 1.6 liter 4 cylinder engine is cheaper.why don't you replace this damaged engine with a second hand 1.6 liter unit?
A modification that insurers might not like?
I was thinking the same. Can you simply swap it in?
Eco as you'll end up walking more than those yokes will drive
Nice video Lee...👍
Hi Lee, great content keep the videos coming. What's your opinion on the mild hybrid eco boosts with chains? I know it's probably too early to make judgements and they still have a belt on the oil pump for whatever reason. such a shame as they drive well.
Random question and for give my ignorance could you not put a standard 1.6 engine into a 1 L eco-boost engine bay or is it too small for the 1.6 engine?
To much work involved to change the engine type sadly, all different wire looms, ecu and bsi units to replace along with many other parts.
Eco boom as they are known in the circle,welt belt is the problem on these shit engines….if I was selling cars I’d avoid buying any of these eco boom engines…
I had one, spent £8k only had 47k miles and it blew up after 5 months. The garage i bought it from refused to help.
Sorry to hear 😔
The 1.0ltr Ecoboast is the modern day K - Series! At work we have that year Focus with the 1.6 TDCI. Great engine. Great car. 😊
Great to see you on podcast with joe dave and chops 👌
My dad had one on the fourcourt sold to the customer done the wet belt and then the engine done the same thing as yours so currently in the process of buying another engine , had to buy back of the customer been sitting on our drive away for a couple months now poor car 😂😂
You wouldn’t imagine a company like Ford couldn’t make a reliable engines.
You wouldn't, but they've outsourced their engines from Mazda, Peugeot, and Renault in the years before. The Ford engines were either ancient designs or from their American division. I guess they've forgotten how to engineer a reliable engine.
I didn't think the 2.0 Ecoboost was that bad, but you could only find it with a manual gearbox in the Focus ST. In the Mondeo, it was only available with the insanely unreliable Powershift automatic transmission. The only good Mondeo of the final model was the hybrid one.
It's a sad state that when all acar needs is an engine, the complexity and shiteness behind some of today's engines means that it just ain't worth it. Ecobooms being the case in point
Great content as always. Had any interest in the maserati? If you drop it to £5k I'll be across🤣
Neighbours daughter bought one after I told her to buy a Toyota Corolla.
2 months later another neighbour bought one as she liked the colour. ....😬 .....I give up.
Well I don't understand why you say this. The very nice salesman said it was a great car !!!!
Stuff like this has happened to me many times in my life. People don't listen only to pull that all to familiar face sometime later.
Just have to accept that some people need to learn the hard way.
I always tell people to buy Japanese especially Toyota but besides my Mum I have convinced nobody but boy am I very unsypmathetic when their cars break. My Mum bought a Suzuki Alto I checked it over before she did but told her it was almost perfect besides one missing service. Nah people want muh premium badger especially the German stuff. I know someone who has a Ranger Rover and they're on their 3rd engine because the timing chain failed twice both were replaced under warranty but just imagine paying outside of warranty. I laugh at them and show them zero sympathy especially when they could have bought a Lexus SUV.
I first heard of this EcoBoost coolant issue many years ago when a cousin's good friend's Focus caught fire in the Mersey Tunnel, an HGV driver stopped and put it out - coolant (which is flammable when atomised - a la Pontiac Fiero) sprayed onto the exhaust and up it went, Ford tried to charge over £10k for new wiring, new engine etc until I stepped in. In this instance I recall it was a faulty aluminium casting, from Mexico.
Re glow plugs, for future ref a mobile specialist from Yorkshire guarantees and removed those broken from a friend's Mk6 Fiesta 1.6 Ford/PSA. On my Merc I soaked for three days in best penetrating oil then loosened off with a special premium socket on a 1/4" drive impact wrench, starting on the lowest setting.
Chops Garage would give him a new car, his money back, an exotic holiday, and a 10yr warranty😉
Those plastic pieces on the head snap just looking at them too long , broke a couple doing clutches
Another great video
Rented a Focus in France a few years back, 4 passengers on board, lovely to drive, no bother going up the Alps and economical, I thought it was a diesel until I went to refuel it, realised it was petrol, later pulled the bonnet thinking it was a 1.6 petrol but no only 3 cylinders, the boom machine. A shame , reliability is proper engineering
Toyota got it right with their 1.2 4 cylinder turbo petrol unit but sadly it never sold enough but it's a very solid petrol engine.
Should have posed as private seller with that one
No need as all will become clear
Over complicated engine = unreliable.
This happened to my mk7.5 fiesta st 1.6. temp gauge never ever raised above half, only indication something was wrong was the smoke out the back on the motorway
He bought a pug!!! Did it have the puretech !!!!!
No it had the earlier engine in, I don't sell puretech vehicles
Just watched the podcast, excellent 👍
Hi Lee hope you’re well mate 👍🏻 I am in the market for an evoque north west based (Runcorn way) would you be able to recommend any auctions that may have some in? Thank you I know you’ve done a few videos evoques hence why I’m asking 👍🏻
G3 on a tuesday have a few in, also aston barclay wakefield branch have a landrover agent who places evoques in. Bought from both
Lovely I’ll have a look 😄 keep up the videos aswell very insightful (even though I’ve convinced myself about 5 times not to buy an evoque after the 2 litre chat 😂
I’ve seen two issues with diesels that crank for a long time but dont start. Leaky injectors that are leaking over night flooding the engine (would make sense as it smokes on start up) not leaking enough to effect running but enough in say 10-12 hours to slightly flood the engine.
Or return pipe not holding pressure so pressures off on first start in the morning.
I’d put my money on leaky injectors causing long cranking as you mentioned it smokes.
Would I buy a car of you? Yes I would it is quite simple you are highly intelligent where cars are concerned and you know your craft. Unfortunately you have had a run of bad luck lately but that is the nature of the beast especially in car sales. Good luck in the future Lee 👍👍
I thought maybe Ford could of done something on the 1.25 Fiesta engine?Maybe made it greener.Could of kept it in production & used for different models as it is such a proven reliable engine.
That engine was designed by Yamaha. Ford thought they could do better but don't have a clue.
Those water pipes might've been better in metal ?
Lee. That’s mad as toast. Sump off good as gold rare wet belt and new recent engine. Then….. coolant problem and driver doesn’t pull over temp way way over. Likey flashing red. What an engine these are. Throw away tech. What a sorry state many a later engine design is.
My Fiesta Ecoboost got new wet belts under warranty when it failed at 14000 miles in 2019. Now has 33K on it and I'm replacing the belts and a few other parts in the new year when it will be 10 years old. It's been cheap to run, zero car tax and handles well. I change oil religiously every 5000 miles. I agree they can have issues and are not recommended if high mileage is your thing. Ignore Fords overoptimistic claims regarding servicing and oil change intervals.
8:48 that engine needs 5 things to run, not 3... Air, fuel, spark, compression & timing
Wet Cam Belts avoid!!! The cambelts shred tiny bits of the rubber into the engine oil during normal use which is not an issue on a normal belt but these particulates then block the oil holes up in the cylinder block the engine gets very grumpy about it - Ford have known about this for ages but keep trying to hide the issue which is very very naughty and they should sit on the naughty step
I said, "No compression", on first hearing the turning. I've heard that a few times in my life. BUT, never on a Renault, or Peugeot, or Citroën, or SEAT, or Škoda. It was mostly my Fords. Not my 100E, upgraded to a 107E, nor my Cortina Mk1 GT, nor my Lotus Cortina Mk1, nor my Escort Mk1 van, used for 16 years as a DJ's transport! Just the modern ones.
Im 1mi 5sec into your video while your explaining Vehicle Score Sponser. Your video title is I SOLD A CUSTOMER A FORD ECOBOOST - NOW IT'S BLOWN UP. I look upto the top right hand corner of the next TH-cam suggestion and it's one of your video's from 2 months ago with the title " I BOUGHT A BROKEN FORD ECOBOOST". ..........Priceless.
Lee you have a vlog saying don’t touch these😂. The manufacturers need a group action against them, they clearly aren’t for for purpose. I has a couple of 1.25 zetecs were fabulous cars with nimble chassis
It's worth avoiding the modern drama junk and concentrate of good cars. Yaris, Corolla and the better older cars - Astra H, Focus 1 and 2 but finding nice ones is getting hard now.
These engines have hot spots and in turn the coolant runs burning hot. The temp gauges do not show the true temp of the engine. The high coolant temp causes all coolant components to fail. Expansion bottles. Degas hoses. Water pumps. Various gaskets or hoses. It's just your luck as to what coolant component fails.
Check the glow plug relay . Had that on a scenic a few yrs ago
The trouble with the ford focus is that it's a FORD. (fix or repair daily, found on rubbish dump etc).
The older duratec engines were very reliable
@@Matty12333 yes mine on 111,000 faultless, 13 years old
If I owned a "Wet Belt" Engine vehicle the first thing I would do would be check google to see if there was a Timing Chain Conversion Kit available for the engine. Who wants an engine with Belt teeth clogging the Vacuum Pump Pick Up and apparently reducing braking reliability.... Well Done Ford for not recalling this issue as I believe it did in the USA for 140K Eco boost Vehicles (Auto Boxes Only.. but hey who's meet an American who can drive a "Stick-Shift" Transmission?)
They never get over the threshold of my workshop.
Cheers Lee
The new transit has still got a wet belt and they have just been launched a couple of months ago
🤷♂️that's just crazy
Worse yet the NHS has just bought a load of ambualnces on this platform I hope to god none of them break on a call out.
@@gravemind6536 That would be truly horrendous.
Eco-Burst the green engine!
I worked in the print industry a saw what happened to wet belts.they are just a ticking time bomb.
Hi Lee, I'm looking to by a Citroen DS3 going to look at one this week, it has the 1.6 petrol non turbo engine, what's your thoughts on that particular engine 🤔
Search BMW PSA Prince Engine Then go buy a Toyota or Honda Instead.
We had a 125bhp fiesta ecoboost (13 plate) absolutely brilliant car to drive , decend performance, decent mpg, £0 road tax.
BUT after 108'000 miles ( 1 water pipe replaced by me at £20) as it cracked while i checked it.
The worry and potential cost of the wet belts (timing and water pump) was making me loose sleep.
Quote was £1300 ( on a car worth £3600)didnt make economical sense, so i part exchanged it for a 17 plate kia rio (1.0 turbo petrol, chain, remap and 140bhp).
Nice Focus RS MK3 in the background
One of my neighbours got a ford ecoboost, if anything just the paint work is shockingly bad, every single panel aged a different shade of red. They'll get the wet belt issue sooner of later.
3:20 Was your mate called Arthur by the way, drinks at the Winchester?
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Fords old engines were bullet proof...what was Ford thinking.
Induction, compression, combustion, exhaust....or suck, squeeze, bang, blow are the 4 strokes of an engine 👍