my car broke down yesterday 2003 ford fiesta with the durashift gear changing system or semi atuomatic.

and i had it towed to the nearest ford garage. they called me up today and said i needed a new actuator for the car and quoted me 800 pounds for parts and labor, now this is rather a huge amount of money for me, so is this price fair? i really need an answer soon.

any advice would be greatly apreciated. they said it will include programming of the gearbox aswell.

thanks

mike

my car broke down yesterday 2003 ford fiesta with the durashift gear changing system or semi atuomatic.

and i had it towed to the nearest ford garage. they called me up today and said i needed a new actuator for the car and quoted me 800 pounds for parts and labor, now this is rather a huge amount of money for me, so is this price fair? i really need an answer soon.

any advice would be greatly apreciated. they said it will include programming of the gearbox aswell.

thanks

mike

I am suffering with the same problem, however instead of going to the dealers straight away i am currently researching it myself and looking through the web it seems the ford dealers are a bit hasty with the solution to this problem. It could possibly be something smaller, however its in their hands now and i assumed they've sorted your problem by now right?

Some of the pages i looked at:

http://www.justanswer.com/questions/3b5sj-my-ford-fiesta-semi-auto-1-4-duratec-wont-start-because

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=15624977

http://www.ilexa.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,25628.0.html

http://www.askthemechanic.co.uk/makes/ford-fiesta-problems.html

http://www.fordownersclub.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3106&st=0&p=10662&hl=durashift&fromsearch=1entry10662