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.
There is a 1ltr Ecoboost, didnt even know till this video. In Australia they brought out a 2.0 ecoboost as an option engine for our ford falcons. They are junk too. Don't even see them on the roads anymore 10 years after they were released.
If I ever see a car with an Ecoboost engine I will run a mile now and that is all thanks to the education here from you mate! Great stuff! Before subbing to your channel I would have had no idea and may have possibly purchased one of these.
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
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.
Daughters 23 plate eco boost's engine gave up last Friday (8th), recovered to local ford dealers where she purchased the car 11 months ago, currently awaiting delivery of new engine being fitted under warranty. Guess it suffered the same problems.
@@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 ?
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
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 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
@@PatLadsChan99 This is a 12 year old car. If these cars are still around at 10+ years old, you can't really say there's a fundamental problem with them. Buying any old car is a minefield.
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 " 🤣
@Interdimensional27 well, talks about reducing service interval to 4-5K + quality oil nearly lulled me. I really like focus. Could have been the rocket.
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 😊
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
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 👍
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.
On the glowplug issue but equally seized bolts in general. I built a spot welder that has proven fantastic for heating up seized boots. Can take up ro 12mm to white hot if required. If interssted let me know.
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)
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 .
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!
The first years the 208 were also available with the 1,4 and 1,6 VTi and THP. They had a distribution chain and most of the problems were solved by then. The 1,6 HDi are reliable.
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! :)
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.
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?
My oil temp was showing hot, then the bonnet started smoking. It had been leaking oil slowly for a few years, so I just thought it was dry, got it filled , but it didn't fix it. Filled it some more cause it was still low. Still ended up smoking after a bit. Eventually figured out the coolant was dry, topped that up but still didn't help, the garage eventually said it's the pump. Cost x to replace, but you've probably messed up the block already... So it sounds like what happened to your customer (this was a meriva 2007). It also was losing power. I'm glad to hear the same conclusion on our cars, so I was right to just leave the meriva at the garage and just closed on a ford focus estate 2011.
My Daewoo Nubira lost all coolant when heater hose split Drove it home in smoke and steam, repaired pipe refilled and engine ran perfectly. This is Vauxhall 1.6 TC, couldn't break it. Still used in Astras now.
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.
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.
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…
The guy could easily take this dealer to court irrespective of the mileage. Everything bought in this country has to be fit for the purpose it was intended for and if it has an inherent floor this it's ru4vdesjets responsibility. I wanna lawsuit 40,000 miles on a motorcycle where my engine blew up the dealer did it want to do anything about it so I took them to court and I won. At the end of the day if you're sold at dodged you product from the beginning then you have rights. If this dealer knows that these engines are dodgy then you shouldn't be selling the car should he.
@@elixier33 Incorrect. You cannot buy a car and drive it without coolant and expect the seller to compensate you for that. I can't buy a car and fill it with baked beans and then cry it's not working. Same logic. However, I do think smart motorways should be banned because they are dangerous and prevented the driver in this case from pulling over sooner.
Recently got a car for my granddaughter, she wanted a Ford Focus. Her and her brother (a mechanic) managed to get a 12 plate Focus Zetec Estate, 1.6 diesel, 90K miles, FSH, from a garage in Oldham, in very good condition for around £4K. The 1.6 and later 1.5 diesels are a very good engine, I've got a 64 plate Ford C Max Grand 1.6 diesel, it's now done 91K, MOT due next month, should pass without any problem. Also I get around 44 mpg around town, 50 mpg on a decent run. Focuses are great cars to drive, just steer clear of the Ecoboost, buy ones with normal petrol or diesels, as Lee recommends. Looks like Lee is after Edd China's job here, very informative....
If they have been looked after they will do the time, I’ve changed the belts on 30+cars we have sold and looked after from 2-3 years old and none of the belts have shown any signs of degradation, if they’ve been neglected then expect the worst if you look after them they will do what you ask of them!!
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.
If you run the engine for a few minutes before attempting to remove glowplugs it sometimes helps. The aluminium head expands faster than the steel glowplugs which sometimes makes them unscrew a bit easier 👍
It a good little engine when it’s ok , goes well for a 1 litre , but as I work in the motor trade I see many failures now they are getting old . Ford transits with the wet belt are a nightmare too
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.
Yeah people say the Eco boost is an awful engie, which it definitely is but my friends have bought factory new cars that died in a month. In life you just get what you get sometimes.
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.
Blimey. I've just changed a cracked Degas hose because I couldn't understand why I had no heat, but the temperature gauge was showing normal ranges, nothing excessive. I did notice a water stain under the car over the new year & I investigated this & found the expansion tank empty. Thankfully I caught it in time & it's all fine now with just a top up to finish off the coolant. I've watched your video on the ecoboost issues & reckon it's just a matter of a short time to trade it in for a better Ford Focus. 😢
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.
The Ford Falcon in Australia had a 2 litre ecoboost option..Standard was a 4.1 litre 6 with a couple of V8's. We considered the ecoboost nothing more than a joke.
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 😂😂
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.
Who goes back to a dealer 14 months later with an issue? That's bonkers. Anyway, its good you have a good relationship with the customer and he bought another car from you. I'd have given him a small discount (and a stern lecture on the importance of reacting to issues and actively performing maintenance) just for being a return tbh. One thing you might want to try and do is identify people's "use case" for the vehicle and advise if doing the school run in a turbo diesel or motorway miles in a 1.0 eco boost are really the best options..
VW started using wet belt for the oil pump in their engines, the rest is chain, I've seen PSA engines suffer really badly from wetbelts and had no personal issues with ford wet belts ranging from 6-70k miles all under 10 years old. I only buy 2015-2018 mk3.5 models.
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
I remember saying when these first came out they’re designed to prematurely fail, it stands to reason, some doubted me at the time… terrible idea. EcoBoom is very fitting for them.
There's always exceptions to any rule...just because your car is fine doesn't mean they all are. Statistically these are one of the most problematic engines so good luck!
@@stachujones7820My ecoboost has been fine since I’ve had it. Remember for every horror story you hear about one “blowing up” there are thousands on the roads with no problems which you don’t hear about.
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
They still use wet belts on transits there not bad the belts the falures come from using the wrong oils and not changing it enuf i do loads of them they do need a level sensor on the bottle cos they over heat verry quick
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
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
There is a 1ltr Ecoboost, didnt even know till this video. In Australia they brought out a 2.0 ecoboost as an option engine for our ford falcons. They are junk too. Don't even see them on the roads anymore 10 years after they were released.
I happily buy and sell these 1.0 ecoboost cars :) Range from 6-9k depending on year, millage and spec. Oh I always buy them at auctions too ha
If I ever see a car with an Ecoboost engine I will run a mile now and that is all thanks to the education here from you mate! Great stuff! Before subbing to your channel I would have had no idea and may have possibly purchased one of these.
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.
@@davidnorton5887 Yeah I wouldnt get an auto fiesta
A mistake choosing an automatic too.
@robl5833 not a lot I could do about that unfortunately, if she had a manual license I would have saved some money or got more car 😕
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.
5 things
Need a key to make them go too
You need a brain to so that you can check your car over now and again to make sure it doesn't die on the motorway when you least want it to.
Excellent customer service as normal Lee.
Very good channel this. Thoroughly enjoy your honesty with customers. Nice to see a knowledgeable, independent caring garage in this day and age.
Thanks roger
Great Lee, enjoyed the podcast too - it was great to see you finally on with the other guys
Daughters 23 plate eco boost's engine gave up last Friday (8th), recovered to local ford dealers where she purchased the car 11 months ago, currently awaiting delivery of new engine being fitted under warranty. Guess it suffered the same problems.
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 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 ?
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.
Client entitled to it. Sale of goods act. Check it out gotta know your rights
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
A bomb with multiple fuses! - I am a used car dealer and I will steal that phrase, thank you!!!
I have to say a huge thankyou for the warnings youve given re wet belts. Youve probably saved a lot of people a lot of pain and stress
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 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
@@PatLadsChan99 This is a 12 year old car. If these cars are still around at 10+ years old, you can't really say there's a fundamental problem with them. Buying any old car is a minefield.
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 " 🤣
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.
@@KTOMbI Change oil every 5K, Castrol magnetic 5-20, run it on 97-99 octane fuel.
Noooooo
@@modmod392 thanks
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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Im here from chops garage, youre another great dealer to follow
Welcome aboard! 👍👍
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.
Great video Lee, yes good to see you on the car dealer podcast, tonight has been great viewing
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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love your honesty my wife has a vauxhall wet belt great video
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
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👍
Lee. Solid POD!!! Enjoyed hearing about your auction you ran. Landlord Bhatch not the best. Good stuff.
Thanks Bud 👍
The upgrade pipe is definitely better I replaced mine as soon as I brought it .
Really enjoyed the podcast as you 4 are the best on TH-cam by a mile
Thanks matt
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 👍
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.
On the glowplug issue but equally seized bolts in general. I built a spot welder that has proven fantastic for heating up seized boots. Can take up ro 12mm to white hot if required.
If interssted let me know.
Every trader should be like you lee👍
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)
Thank You.. Excellent video and info👍
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.
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!
The first years the 208 were also available with the 1,4 and 1,6 VTi and THP. They had a distribution chain and most of the problems were solved by then. The 1,6 HDi are reliable.
@@LennertWelleman you are correct also the C3 briefly ran the prince engine around that time of the 208 launch
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.
I was lost for words when my sister bought a Ford with a Ecoboom engine I’m keeping 🤐
99,000 views! Car UK has gone global 🥳
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Loved the podcast. I hope you can do it again soon.
I hope so too!
I'm loving my Focus ST. Winter mornings are no problem with the heated seats and heated front windscreen. Bring on the frost! 😂
Done me up like a kipper 🤣🤣 classic great content Lee
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 👍👍
Induction, compression, combustion, exhaust....or suck, squeeze, bang, blow are the 4 strokes of an engine 👍
Another great video Lee. There's always one or two every now and again which bite you. Keep it up mate !
Thanks andy
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.
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. 😊
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?
@@paultasker7788 need whole loom, keys ,ecu, etc. not worth it. £2k minimum parts and labour
My oil temp was showing hot, then the bonnet started smoking. It had been leaking oil slowly for a few years, so I just thought it was dry, got it filled , but it didn't fix it. Filled it some more cause it was still low. Still ended up smoking after a bit. Eventually figured out the coolant was dry, topped that up but still didn't help, the garage eventually said it's the pump. Cost x to replace, but you've probably messed up the block already... So it sounds like what happened to your customer (this was a meriva 2007). It also was losing power. I'm glad to hear the same conclusion on our cars, so I was right to just leave the meriva at the garage and just closed on a ford focus estate 2011.
My Daewoo Nubira lost all coolant when heater hose split
Drove it home in smoke and steam, repaired pipe refilled and engine ran perfectly.
This is Vauxhall 1.6 TC, couldn't break it.
Still used in Astras now.
Nice Pug 208 diesel, a good engine, the diesel, one of the besr.
We had a 1.6 Focus Ecoboost. Didn't have a single problem
Another great video
I had a Vauxhall Zafira Diesel that had seized glowplugs. The garage said they got them out by soaking them in "Cilit Bang" household cleaner!
There should be a website where you can check for wet belt engines.
There is, it's called google
Ford & Peugeot (Vauxhall) main culprits
Looking forward to seeing the A3 Lee
Nice video Lee...👍
Great to see you on podcast with joe dave and chops 👌
8:48 that engine needs 5 things to run, not 3... Air, fuel, spark, compression & timing
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.
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.
Just watched the podcast, excellent 👍
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…
The guy could easily take this dealer to court irrespective of the mileage. Everything bought in this country has to be fit for the purpose it was intended for and if it has an inherent floor this it's ru4vdesjets responsibility. I wanna lawsuit 40,000 miles on a motorcycle where my engine blew up the dealer did it want to do anything about it so I took them to court and I won. At the end of the day if you're sold at dodged you product from the beginning then you have rights. If this dealer knows that these engines are dodgy then you shouldn't be selling the car should he.
@@elixier33 Incorrect. You cannot buy a car and drive it without coolant and expect the seller to compensate you for that. I can't buy a car and fill it with baked beans and then cry it's not working. Same logic.
However, I do think smart motorways should be banned because they are dangerous and prevented the driver in this case from pulling over sooner.
As a mechanic of over 25 years, the wet belt set up is one of the most ludicrously shit ideas put into production
Your car hasn't had the recall for the rubber coolant lines.. It has the brittle plastic shit. This was solved years ago
Those water pipes might've been better in metal ?
Those plastic pieces on the head snap just looking at them too long , broke a couple doing clutches
Recently got a car for my granddaughter, she wanted a Ford Focus. Her and her brother (a mechanic) managed to get a 12 plate Focus Zetec Estate, 1.6 diesel, 90K miles, FSH, from a garage in Oldham, in very good condition for around £4K. The 1.6 and later 1.5 diesels are a very good engine, I've got a 64 plate Ford C Max Grand 1.6 diesel, it's now done 91K, MOT due next month, should pass without any problem. Also I get around 44 mpg around town, 50 mpg on a decent run. Focuses are great cars to drive, just steer clear of the Ecoboost, buy ones with normal petrol or diesels, as Lee recommends. Looks like Lee is after Edd China's job here, very informative....
If they have been looked after they will do the time, I’ve changed the belts on 30+cars we have sold and looked after from 2-3 years old and none of the belts have shown any signs of degradation, if they’ve been neglected then expect the worst if you look after them they will do what you ask of them!!
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.
If you run the engine for a few minutes before attempting to remove glowplugs it sometimes helps. The aluminium head expands faster than the steel glowplugs which sometimes makes them unscrew a bit easier 👍
We tried this but sadly did not work 😢
It a good little engine when it’s ok , goes well for a 1 litre , but as I work in the motor trade I see many failures now they are getting old . Ford transits with the wet belt are a nightmare too
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.
Yeah people say the Eco boost is an awful engie, which it definitely is but my friends have bought factory new cars that died in a month. In life you just get what you get sometimes.
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.
Have to admire the Focus owner, if in doubt, flat out 😅 Shame for him though, hope the wee Peugeot serves him well.
I thought you’d said before you wouldn’t have an ecoboom? Should have stuck to it
Over complicated engine = unreliable.
Blimey. I've just changed a cracked Degas hose because I couldn't understand why I had no heat, but the temperature gauge was showing normal ranges, nothing excessive. I did notice a water stain under the car over the new year & I investigated this & found the expansion tank empty. Thankfully I caught it in time & it's all fine now with just a top up to finish off the coolant. I've watched your video on the ecoboost issues & reckon it's just a matter of a short time to trade it in for a better Ford Focus. 😢
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.
The Ford Falcon in Australia had a 2 litre ecoboost option..Standard was a 4.1 litre 6 with a couple of V8's. We considered the ecoboost nothing more than a joke.
I was one of the lucky ones then, i had a 1.5l ecoboost, was a tense PCP agreement when i found out about ecoboom
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 😂😂
I too bought a ford focus with the ecoboom engine. It went boom.
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.
Who goes back to a dealer 14 months later with an issue? That's bonkers. Anyway, its good you have a good relationship with the customer and he bought another car from you. I'd have given him a small discount (and a stern lecture on the importance of reacting to issues and actively performing maintenance) just for being a return tbh. One thing you might want to try and do is identify people's "use case" for the vehicle and advise if doing the school run in a turbo diesel or motorway miles in a 1.0 eco boost are really the best options..
VW started using wet belt for the oil pump in their engines, the rest is chain, I've seen PSA engines suffer really badly from wetbelts and had no personal issues with ford wet belts ranging from 6-70k miles all under 10 years old. I only buy 2015-2018 mk3.5 models.
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.
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
I remember saying when these first came out they’re designed to prematurely fail, it stands to reason, some doubted me at the time… terrible idea. EcoBoom is very fitting for them.
3:20 Was your mate called Arthur by the way, drinks at the Winchester?
🤣 👍
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
I bet you've changed the belt and serviced it regularly
There's always exceptions to any rule...just because your car is fine doesn't mean they all are. Statistically these are one of the most problematic engines so good luck!
@@rickyjulian496 no not had blelt change + I missed 2 severs in covid years
@@stachujones7820My ecoboost has been fine since I’ve had it. Remember for every horror story you hear about one “blowing up” there are thousands on the roads with no problems which you don’t hear about.
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
They still use wet belts on transits there not bad the belts the falures come from using the wrong oils and not changing it enuf i do loads of them they do need a level sensor on the bottle cos they over heat verry quick
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.
What is the logic behind these 'smart motorways'? I mean the fella with this car sounded like he had nowhere to pull in to 🤷🏼♂️
Check the glow plug relay . Had that on a scenic a few yrs ago