2011fiesta

Well after cutting his losses and getting rid of his disastrous corsa a few years back in favour for a Fiesta 1.4 TDCi, my dad has been landed with an eye-watering bill before christmas.

He's a driving instructor and recently him and his pupils have noticed his fiesta doesn't have that burst of power when accelerating when the turbo would usually kick in. Basically his mechanic friend had a look and confirmed the turbo needed replacing and said to take it to a dealership as its still in warrently (2.5yrs old / 52,000 miles).
So spoke to his dealership friend who agreed the turbo had gone and said they'd have to send pics to Ford for them to approve the work under warrenty - however Ford have replied saying it isn't a manufacturing fault so it'll be £900 to replace.

Obviously this isn't what we need on a nearly new car, at christmas, the quietiest time of year work-wise.

Can anyone reccomend any cheaper non-ford replacements suitable for his fiesta please?
Also has anyone had this issue before?

Cheers

Paul

Just wondering if anyones been to one of these before and if it was worth the trip, or just a rip.


Got a letter from the dealer where I bought my car originally which read......

Your Personal Invitation to our Exclusive Closed Sale Discount Event.

[Dealer name] are pleased to inform you that we have joined forces with the 'Man from Ford' to bring you some fantastic offers acrosss the Ford range. Ford has allocated our dealership a 'golden pot allowance', which will enable us to offer exclusive discounts that will not be available to the general public.

We are sending this letter to our most loyal customers, to invite you to this exclusive event being held [dates].

We hope that you will be able to attend, and take a look at the new 62 reg Ford range. We are offering 5 years free warranty on all new Ford cars purchased up to 30th Sept 2012, desposit allowances available on selected new models, with representative 4.9% APR when financed with Ford options - plus special discounts from Ford's pot of gold.

In addition, we are also offering huge savings on our wide selection of used car stock. Following the 1st Sept plate change, we have had an influx of well-maintained part exchange vehicles, which we are delighted to offer at specially reduced prices just for our 4-day event.




I thought yeah okay I'll call in when I'm passing just to see what they're offering, but they just phoned tonight asking which "appointment" I'd like as they're almost fully booked!

So I've made one just to window shop if anything.

They said I need to bring my car, V5 and both parts of the licence.


Just a standard sales ploy by dealers you reckon?


(Just for reference my 2011 60 reg fiesta is nearing 2 yrs old and has 19,000 miles on it - 1 year of warrenty left)


Thoughts?

Just wondered how many of you have dash cams in your car? I often watch bad drivers on YouTube that have been caught on other people’s dash cams, or driver’s purposely causing bumps and rear endings so they can get cash from the victim’s insurers etc.

I've had a dash cam for about a year after seeing the usual idiots that we have to share the road with - (luckily I've never been involved in anything and I've never had to use my footage as evidence, but it’s nice to know I can prove/show what happened if I was involved in an incident).

For the first time today I actually noticed 2 other cars pass me that also had cash cams on - one was a taxi driver which makes sense being on the road all the time.

Me and my dad have cameras that stick to the screen and hang from underneath the rear view mirrors - how ever with my dad being a driving instructor we ordered a replacement that iNath also uses - its much smaller and hides behind the mirror so it’s unnoticeable to the driver (I'll post pics of it once fitted tomorrow).

My cameras now effectively a spare and is currently pointing out my back window, and my dads current HD cam is now in the front of my car.
(I know its not the neatest or most subtle but I'll be able to remove them easily without trace when changing cars, and for the time being, well, they do their job)






I wouldn't know where to start to wire them to the ignition so I just use this switch to turn em on and off...


The wires to the cams run from the power outlet, then under the drivers chair and into a 4 way socket adapter, then out towards the drivers door and into the rubber door seals, through the A pillar, headliner and out to the camera.

Only sloppy/visible bit is this section but its only me that sees it so I can live with that...


My new front cam from my dads car unfortunately has an interior view cam too so please ignore the right hand side. It ain't as good as the exterior view so hence on sunny days it makes people look like Casper the ghost.




Yeah, so I guess you never know who’s watching you. It'd be good to hear if anyone else uses dash cams and if you've ever had to use the footage?

Heres a few YouTube vids.


This first one is a must watch if you haven't already seen it. Watch the whole thing, its quite shocking. (London Southall)








Great YouTube channel.... http://www.youtube.c...s/videos?view=0

Just to say happy birthday Nathan. Have a good'un!  

After a 10 minute drive I got home and decided to put an iphone usb cable from the usb port to inside the glovebox, by just tucking the cable into the gap between the plastics around the gear stick/centre console.
I've seen someone do this before so that their device was in the glovebox rather than sat on view near the cars USB/aux/power outlet ports.

However when tucking the cable in just before the right hand side of the glove box (shown second pic down), I burt my finger on something underneath the dash!
(I've removed the USB cable again worrying that it may melt the wire's casing).





In the pic below, looking underneath the dash you can see theres a pipe of some sort. Is this something to do with the climate sytem (I didn't have the climate control on during the drive)?



Any ideas / any one else noticed this being hot?

cheers