Hi everyone.  First off, I must explain that I am retired, but quite like to have a little go at doing these things myself...HA HA.  And sometimes I byte off more then I can chew.  In the past I have successfully changed the cam belt on at least half a dozen cars(sometimes multiple times).  They have all been Fords.  This one is turning out to be the worst one I have ever tried to do!!!  This car is a 2015 Ford Fiesta with a 1.5TDCI diesel engine.   The Haynes manual was pretty useless. But I am trying to follow an Autodoc You Tube video which seems pretty good.  In the 1.5 TDCI case it has this wiring loom that sits in front of the cambelt.  Which according to the video needs to be disconnected and moved out the way.  I have a few questions.

1. The video (and indeed the Haynes manual) mentions a wiring loom attached to the top cover of the cambelt which you need to unclip.  My car does not have that.  What is it and is this going to be a problem? Is it being routed some other way that will affect me?

2.   The Haynes manual seems to be quite simple, in that other then the mention of the wiring loom attached to the top cover (which I do not have), it does not refer to the wiring loom which sits in front of the cambelt.   I assumed that the Haynes manual is simply wrong, and I do have to disconnect the loom running in front of the cambelt as per the video or am I being stupid and I should have carried on following the Haynes manual?

3. Anyway I am trying to follow the video.  After much swearing I eventually managed to disconnect I think, all but one of the connectors attached to the wiring loom.  This connector is by the dipstick and next to the alternator.  I can see it, but I cant get my hand to it.  My hands are probably too big to get at it, or I am just not agile enough.  I think the video shows the mechanic accessing this connector from above, but am not sure about that.  If I get stuck I did think that I might remove the alternator to gain access to the connector, but one of the rear bolts on the alternator is also very difficult to access.  Can anybody offer me any advice on how best I might unclip this connector?

4. Finally, its hard too see, but I think in my case there might even be another cable going off somewhere, that I dont know about yet (not shown on the video).  If and when I get this final(?) connector off I will hopefully know more then.  Has this got something to do with 1) above?

I must admit, I am beginning to regret starting this little project, and maybe I should have taken it to the garage in the first place.  Unfortunately I have taken apart quite a lot now, and do not really like the idea of putting it all back together again and giving it to the garage to do.  I think one way or another I will get the final(?) connector off and maybe get this loom out of the way or not??)

Thank You very much for reading this.  Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks

Ok, I did make progress, and I did replace the cam belt.  It was very tight, but I managed to get the lower cam-belt cover off and back on OK without removing that last connector.  So it is do-able.  Unfortunately I think that I have damaged the tone ring on the crank pulley when I was tightening up the crank bolt which is a bit of a disaster.   The car is difficult to start(but does run) and the spanner is being displayed.  I've ****** up.  So it looks like I have got to take it all apart again.  At least this time I will be a lot quicker, because I know what I have to do.  I was using a Y bar to lock the sprocket whilst I turned the bolt through the 190 degrees.  Unfortunately I think the Y bar damaged the tone ring.  I will start another topic regarding this with questions as to how easy it is to remove the crankshaft pully and the best way to lock the crankshaft as you do the crank bolt up.

Thanks.