peanutismint Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 2007 Mk6 Fiesta, only about 20k miles on it when I bought it a few years ago, now at ~40k. Always had an intermittent starter motor problem, and by intermittent I mean like once every ~6 months, so infrequent I didn't bother to get it fixed, it always ended up starting after like 5 mins. Last week, all of a sudden, just could not get it started. Left it for a day, tried it again. After about 3 minutes of trying, I tried pumping the accelerator while I did it. There was an almighty backfire type explosion, like a gunshot, and smoke from under the bonnet. I decided to leave it at that point and take it to the garage... Garage called me with the bad news today - apparently something (we assume a backfire, which they told me shouldn't even happen on modern cars) blew a hole in the inlet manifold, turning the the relatively simple £50 starter motor replacement into a £750 all-in (with labour) fix for a new inlet manifold. They've asked if I want to go ahead but have told me that, in all their years of servicing, they've never seen this happen before, or at least not without finding a cause, and they can't really diagnose why it happened until they have a working engine, hence the £700 inlet manifold. Has anybody else ever experienced something like this on a Fiesta/Ford/any modern car??! Is it normal? Does anybody know why it might have happened?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 That manifold must be gold plated, loads on 'flea bay' or even a scrappy! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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