i watch Jeff Buys Cars, he spoke to a woman on his channel a couple of months ago, she has a yard full of Ford Vans that she owns for her Business, all have Knackered Engines and She can't afford to get them fixed

It looks like ford are losing customers I never buy eny that let's me down ever again the power of Social media Is strong

Well done for helping making this known to Ford , and at last social media has helped

You say "Eco Boost" I say "Why ?"

I’ve just paid fords £1,800 to replace the belt on my 2018 transit custom with 98,000 miles do you think eventually I may get some back or just jog on?

Aygo is so chill. To work on, to drive. Everything is great.

What's happening with the 'racy' yellow Fiat 500! You've had it a very long time?!

Council workers are useless. Sit on their arse all day 🙄

Thanks for the update. I was considering a fiesta for my daughter but this put me off Ford cars completely. Ford have been caught out here and the general public will go elsewhere. Ford need to have an internal review in order to regain public confidence in their products. I will not consider any Ford products due to this issue which is a shame as generally, their cars are great to drive.

Love the channel, totally enjoy your attitude. Unfortunately my wife lost her job this week and we need to buy a small reliable run around. I apologise in advance, we live in Newcastle and need good advice on what would be a good small car to run around in. Whats decent please, im clueless

This isn't really anything for people to cheer about....how many 1.0 Fords in the UK have full service history? even if you bought a 1.0 and serviced it for the years you had it if the previous owner missed just 1 service Ford won't care and i can tell you now people who buy Fords Fiestas and Focuses won't be servicing them at all or maybe one every few years at most so this still doesn't help unless your one of the minority who's got a 1.0 that's actually been serviced, Fiestas especially are just school abused cars ran into the ground and finding ones with full service history is rare and even still why would anyone buy one? nobody will ever buy a Ford 1.0 ever again as your basically buying one hoping one day you'll get a new engine if it does go wrong. Basically if you've got a ecoboom and its got full service history then you have a safety net if it does go wrong but 99% of 1.0 Fords ain't even got full service history so the % of 1.0 cars actually being repaired by this new scheme is very low so imo its not even worth celebrating, we should all only celebrate when the 1.0 engine is scrapped and Ford recall them all regardless to age or service history.

Last owner was 💯 female.😂😂😂😂

Sounds like progress… I personally wouldn’t have one of these Ecoboom’s but the driver behind may have one. Are Ford not playing with lives by waiting for failure as it sounds to me it is a “possibility” that the brake pump widget could also be well clogged up…. US auto , daft powershift or old style manual…😳

Id never buy one of Henry's cluncker stop

very informative video , how does one stand if you maintain it yourself, and have a mechanical background. thanks lee,

I had one for 8 years early 00s. Never really had any major issues with it. The biggest issue was rust creeping in. Particularly around that petrol cap. The heater packed in and I just decided to trade it in. Good memories of that car though.

Such a terrible design

UK, 3 good mechanics have told me recently...never buy a Ford..of any model. Ford have shot themselves in the head.

Imagine some people might have been in the window to get it fixed, but they have scrapped the car now.

I honestly don't know why you bother Lee, cars needing engines and filthy inside and out. If a car has those sort of known issues then i'd be staying well clear. Besides if a car has not been looked after it tells a story. In 2012 i bought a 55 plate Focus 1.6 petrol Ghia, 50k miles when i bought it for £4300 from a dealer. I sold it in early 2016 with 76k miles for £1350 - guy who bought it then phoned a day later to say he'd taken the carpets out and found some damp, some damp in a 10 yr old car with nearly 80k miles that spent all of it's life in Scotland. I spent a full day, cleaning inside and out and giving the car a polish before i sold it. If i was selling a similar car to you i'd spend about 5 or 6 hours cleaning inside and out.

Ford...Fix Or Repair Daily

Stock that nobody else can retail because it’s fucked .

Apart from that though, everything ok? 🤦‍♂

I enquired if my Vauxhall Corsa had this system fitted to my three cylinder engine. I was told it had, so I've got rid and purchased a Toyota diesel!!

Nothing wrong with the Alfa. My mate had a 64 plate 1.6 Diesel he bought with delivery mileage and only got rid of it last Summer because of the cursed ULEZ in Glasgow which he needs to pass though on his way to work. Up to that point bar 1 electric window motor (drivers side) and another small electrical problem (a relay went) all it needed was the usual wear and tear items (tyres, brakes) he had done 80k in it over 9 years and it was serviced every year. If it wasn't for the LEZ zone coming into effect he'd still have it as it was his words "one of the best cars i've owned, very reliable, fun to drive and despite not being bothered about cars i feel like i'm driving something special" . He replaced it with a 2023 Toyota Yaris Cross

The Ecoboom engine !

I find it hard to believe that any manufacturer would not have tested a new engine to destruction well before it was mass produced. Or perhaps they did and determined that it would likely last long enough to hit the 100,000 mile mark at which point the thing would be scrap and the designed in obsolescence point came in. Its not really that difficult to put in a chain if its running through oil but even modern chains seem to be less than robust on many cars so what sort of engineering skills does it take to do things right? Or perhaps the whole idea is to get the cars to be scrap so people go out and buy a new car.

Who on Earth thought that a wet cambelt was a good idea.

This month is dead for us buddy

Why are they/you ignoring the 1.4 Ecoboom engine!! Same shite engine, but 1.4L.......

I have done 300k miles without single issue. Good engine if you keep oil level upto the mark

A most informative video, thanks so much. I'm not sure I can sleep though as I have a 2014 Ford Eco boost manual gearbox, 60,000Kms. Were the earlier engines constructed with the same belt or just the same type of system ?

Id give the ibiza a go personally 👍

Jeez Ford, are they really that stupid or yet another round of cutting corners! Who ever thought rubber doesn't degrade quicker in oil over time must be stupid! And replacing one of two rubber parts with a chain is just as stupid! Open the engine once on a recall and replace both parts with metal! I don't think anything they do as 'goodwill' will ever make me like the brand. Their history is too tainted!

I have a Ford focus 1.5 tdci 2017 reg it’s on 211000 miles still running strong

Would YOU buy a fiat 500 with 108k on the clock, fiats are *hite, end of

After seeing your previous videos traded my 2020 Focus for a Toyota Corolla . So glad I did love it and everything about it feels better built than the Focus.

Amazing how engineering can make stuff like this and think it will last.need to ask people with less education could tell them it won't work.

Excellent video, with as you say lots of information within. It is definitely worth watching twice to try and get your head around it

Puretech and ecoboost engines are both badly designed .

My wife’s fiesta is over 10 years old but only has 49k miles on the clock. She’s not covered by this change!

Can anyone buy from this auction?

I have a 2020 Fiesta Mk8 ST3, it will be my last Ford after this shambles...my sister in law had to shell out £3000 when the wet belt failed on their focus 1.0 EB, the dealer went 50/50 with them because even though it has FSH they couldn't prove what oil was used...Ford are a disgrace and this is too little too late!

i lost breaking on focus 1.8tdci .... vacuum pump failure ... no wet belt ...no backup ... also 1.8tdci from 2008 was wet belt same failures as 1.0eco boost

2016 Focus EcoBoost, 102000 miles and so far no issue. Serviced by Ford every year, perhaps that helps. Maybe I'm lucky, who knows. It is starting to make me nervous though. And it's not a cheap fix. Been quoted £2500 to fix it

Was there similar issues with the 1.5 ecoboost?

Was going to get a 2021 focus 1.0t 155, but the stories made me cancel it.

My method of preventing all these problems is the same as it's been since I started working as a mechanic in the late 1960s, namely never EVER buy a Ford of any sort. I wouldn't even buy a wheelbarrow if it had a Ford badge on it. I started working on them when they were sidevalve engines plus Anglia 105Es, early Cortinas etc. They were heaps of crap then, and if anything they're even worse now. I've never understood why people still buy them. My company has recently had to have new engines in two 2018/19 Transits, one with only 77k miles on it, just out of warranty, which blew its head gasket and the Ford main dealer couldn't get the seized injectors out to get the head off. The other one broke its wet belt 30k miles before it was due for change. I could write a book on all the problems I've dealt with on many different Ford models over the years.

Don’t forget the earlier transit connect as well

I’ve just sold my last Ford and don’t think I’ll ever own one again as nothing in their new range excites me in the slightest. Mainly as their new models are either EV, SUV or have these rubbish Ecoboost engines. It’s pretty sad as I’ve owned many Fords and have always loved the brand, but the way they’re going and treating these ecoboost customers is nothing short of a disgrace.