Also it sounds like your turbo is about to blow.

I think I would rather 4 matching new budget tyres than mismatched premiums on one axle

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 wow 100 subscribers. I’m amazed by the support. Thankyou 👍

Your braver than I am buying a 1.0 Ecoboom Ford.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Until we drop the sump we won’t know if the gamble paid off. 🤞

@SASMacDroid

Жыл бұрын

If you have 1 million people happy with the engine you don't hear about that if you have 100 people complain about the engine you hear about that I'm still driving my 2013 face lifted fiesta 1.0 101hp with even with the Powershift automatic and 135.000kmh on it with no major problems

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. This is a human trait unfortunately.

Nice car, hopefully you will do well with it. My son brought a Fiesta ST, lovely motor.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou T wiz. It’s a nice nippy motor. I’m looking forward to fixing the faults and preparing ready to sell.

Commonly known in the car scene as an ecoboom!

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Yes seems a controversial engine design

@flippingcarsrepairs

Жыл бұрын

Yup 😂😂😂

@jonnygti

Жыл бұрын

Yes my workmate has one, he only had it a month until the engine light came on, still hasn’t got to the bottom of it

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Diagnostic/ code reader should tell him 👍

@jonnygti

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 yes but the point is, its probably down to the common fault on these engines.

We had the same engine in a 2013 fiesta titanium. As people have said,the wet cam belt is the elephant in the room. 125'000 miles or 10 years is the ford recommended change interval. As the engine came out in the uk in 2013, lots of them are coming up to 10 years old. I was quoted £880 from a ford indipendant specialist to change both belts (the oil pump has a smaller wet belt behind the timing belt) and strainer change, fine on a £10'000 car,but a chunk of change on (in our case a 108"000mile £2600 fiesta) People who know will want prove of the belts changed or a bloody big discount or will walk away.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Agreed Bryan. 👍. We are starting to investigate at the beginning of next week. We will more than likely change the belts, water pump and anything else we come across as we don’t know it’s history and if the correct oil was used and not wishing to sell a car with potential issues.

@Brian-om2hh

Жыл бұрын

Seemingly, the timing belt change is listed officially as a 14 hour job on these, so it's not going to be cheap. I had one of these around 6 or 7 years ago, and the fuel consumption was *nowhere* near Ford's claim. I never saw more than 44 mpg. The rubber door seals started coming loose on mine at 50k miles.... I've seen others with door seals trailing on the road since. Build quality isn't the best around..... I chopped mine in for an ex demo Golf Mk7 1.4Tsi DSG auto. The build quality on the Golf was from another World.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

We have some loose door seals to sort. I’m surprised it is booked to 14hrs I would have expected it to be less. It would take us that long and more for sure. It appears to be the norm for manufacturers to overstate the mpg on their vehicles. Now doing the same for mileage range on their electric vehicles. 👍

I think the estate version mk3 looks better abit higher and longer? Best colour and best alloys zetec i think?

Thst was very brave buying that 😂😂😂

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Or Daft 😎. I like a challenge 👍

The usual “its known as the ecoboom engine bla bla rubbish ”🙄 just change the oil and filter regularly so it doesn’t block the oil strainer and contaminate the belt the you won’t have any issues! I’m on for my 3rd one I do a lot of mileage and my last one I sold with 185000k on it and it never missed a beat I change the oil every 10,000k and all 3 of mine have made that noise including the 2021 focus I’ve got now and I’ve had that from new!

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

And use the correct oil 5w 20 👍

@philmoffett366

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 yep that aswell

These early ecoboost engines were notorious for engine oil pump failure thus starving the engine from oil and causing extensive engine failure as a result.I believe that from 2016 onwards this issue was fixed. seems to me that the thrust bearing on the clutch. Is showig signes of failure.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Yes John we believe that the knocking noise that disappears when the clutch is depressed could be the thrust bearing. The 1.0 125 Ecoboost engine that’s in this Ford Focus has a wet cambelt and if the incorrect oil is used or not changed regularly ie annually (10000) then the wet cambelt starts to deteriorate and and particles of the belt starts to clog the oil pump filter pick up causing oil starvation to the engine. We should know more over the next few days as we start to investigate.

The noise you hear when you push in/lift up the clutch is normal from what i've heard of my mechanic. Its just they way they're built, mine has been doing that since day 1 ( 7 years now ). Bought it new. still shifts smooth, but i have the 5 speed manual. 2016 Focus wagon with nearly 90.000 kms on it Greetings from Belgium 😁

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Thankyou Nicky for your comments. The video did not pick up the knocking noise very well. I think it’s different to what yours is. There definitely something not right. We will know more next week when we take a look at it 👍

@Nickysagesanders

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 ohw yeah sorry. Did not hear the knocking noise. I thought you were referring to the noise from the clutch. My bad 😅. Looking forward to next video. Cause the Focus are good cars. Even if they have such small engines

@Nickysagesanders

11 ай бұрын

@@SilverSeeker232 nope, never had oil pressure issues. and mine has the timingchain. sorry for late reply, just got back from vacation in the UK

Do you know already what that knocking noise is when the clutch pedal is up? I have the same symptom, sometimes you can’t hear it at all, sometimes it’s louder. Thank you.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Not had time to investigate as yet owing to pushing on with the XJS clutch replacement. I should get round to looking at the Ford Focus engine next Monday and will upload my findings after that.

@JW-mu1og

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 do you have some news? Thanks.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Preliminary investigation suggest that the Dual mass flywheel (DMF) is failing. We won’t know fully until we take it apart.

@JW-mu1og

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 thank you for a quick feedback. Ok, dual mass flywheel shows also another symptoms but maybe it’s just the beginning of the defect. I am looking forward for the end of this story ;).

@JW-mu1og

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 hello again. Any news? There is a Ecoboost Club from Ukraine on youtube, and they have posted video with this knocking. They don’t know where this sound come from. They write, that many eb engines make this same sound but the cars still drive without problems. Thank you.

when was the engine produced? There was an issue with this engines up to 2014 but fixed after that

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Hey Aris, thanks for commenting. The car was registered June 2014 so engine would be before that. What was the “fix” you mentioned?

@user-jb5rl7qn3v

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 There was issue with cooling system which would result in engine failures. Ford says that 44,682 Ford cars with the three-cylinder turbocharged 1.0-litre engine produced between October 2011 and October 2013 were fitted with a nylon coolant pipe between the engine and coolant tank that had the potential to fail at high temperatures.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

@@user-jb5rl7qn3v 👍 Thankyou for your reply. Yes I know about one. They replaced it with a metal pipe.

Three cylinder engines are always a bit raspy. There is even a 200bhp version of that 1 litre.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

I maybe a bit old school but 200hp 1Ltr for a car does not sit right for reliability and durability, motorbike yes but car 🤔. You are right it’s not the nicest sounding engine owing to having only 3 cylinders.

@schaerfentiefe1967

Жыл бұрын

No! The 200bhp version is the 1.5 EcoBoost 3-cylinder! Used in the Fiesta ST and Puma ST.

@pencilme1n

Жыл бұрын

Is it? I stand corrected

The engines are crap, it's either the wet belt disintegrating that kills them, or the coolant hose splitting. Those with the 1.6 4 cylinder non turbo engines are selling easier and for more money.

@FatHead1979

Жыл бұрын

Yes and no. 1. The uprated coolant hose IS much more reliable than the original design, this kit can easily be retro fitted to a pre-facelist MK3 Focus.. 2. The wet belt disintegrating due to either not having oil changes when they should have been done and/or not using the correct and very specific specification of oil IS very much an issue. 3. Replacing the cambelt is also about a 10 hour job (most places just take the engine out to improve access), needs a number of specialist (expensive) tools and costs more than £1000 at a decent indi garage, leading to people dumping the cars before this job is due. It's actually a lovely little engine to drive, but the wet belt issue (both the susceptibility of the belt to degrade AND the cost to replace the belt) mean I wouldn't touch one with a barge pole unless the wet belt had just been done by Ford themselves. If it didn't also have good recent service history, that would also be a major 🚩

@IfInDoubt..

Жыл бұрын

@@FatHead1979 I've had one in a 64 plate Focus Titanium X. 125 bhp. Very lacking. Speaking from experience.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Ref Point 3. You can do a wet belt change without any specialist tools whilst the engine in situ without difficulty. Checkout Kennedy’s Garage. He has a video, scroll back 6 months on his channel to find it. 👍

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

@@IfInDoubt.. that’s interesting as we are finding this car nippy and responsive to drive.

15 reg onwards should be ok

2 noises thrust bearing and top end noise

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Agree thrust bearing and on the job list to be done. Engine fine though 👍

nice car...nasty ecoboom engine

This is the first video I have watched on this channel your voice descriptions feel very pre scripted and not to sure why you need to tell people the indicator stick is to the left and hear are the air bags

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Trust me it all off the cuff. Not long started this channel and it will I guess take a while to be natural in front of the camera. Not all small cars have side pillar impact bags. Take your point on the indicators though, enthusiasm got the better of me 😎

The ecoboom engine. Avoid at all costs

I'd never buy one again. I spent 5500 to rebuild my engine and I could not wait to get rid of it. Ridiculous ford hasn't addressed this issue further. I have now upgraded to a titanium tdci

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Hi Sean, 5500 What currency was that in surely not £ ?

@SeaniePrendergast

Жыл бұрын

@@christoffsgarage8873 it was euro Chris!

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Wow ! … new Ecoboost engine in UK is £2400 2750 Euro.

Also... they did fit this engine in a Mondeo. Dread to think how that feels.

@schaerfentiefe1967

Жыл бұрын

It feels about the same as the old 1.8 Litre engine in the Mondeo Mk 3 (2000-2007). But the 3-cylinder Ecoboost has more torque at lower rmp.

@IfInDoubt..

Жыл бұрын

@@schaerfentiefe1967 It doesn't. You rely on the turbo to get it moving - if it's off boost, it will not move. That old 1.8 is smooth from idle. It's also chain driven rather than wet belt, so is pretty unburstable.

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Good car ruined by the rubbish engine and gearbox issues

These cars are a load of rubbish, over powered for such a small engine, and the wet belts , soon before the recommend change intervals tend to block the oil strainer.

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

Yes John. They don’t age well if neglected. Regular oil changes using correct 5w 20 oil annually or 10000miles seems to be the consensus of opinion.

@buistebirisvar

Жыл бұрын

nothing happens if u open the bottom of the engine and clean the filter during timing belt change on time(10 years or 150k miles). i have friends with a focus 1.0 at 150k miles..mine is 10 years old. just made timing belt changed. first versions of 1.0 has 3 common issues which can be fixed

@christoffsgarage8873

Жыл бұрын

That’s encouraging to hear 👍

This engine is known to be bad.

Big mistake. Has to be the worst engine ever. Very unreliable.

@christoffsgarage8873

4 ай бұрын

Yes it’s not the best engine to come out of the Ford camp 🙈