2011 Ford Fiesta SES <pic heavy/like always>

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Originally Posted by Gas Man

But nice honda Derf... can't say anything bad about Hondas.... where are those built?

Major component assembly is done in japan, drivetrain, body, etc then shipped to california for final assembly. Yeh honda has treated me well, I had an old integra that lasted to 180k when it was finally stolen. I also had a toyota celica that finally started having trans problems after I started to offroad it, other than that it was great. Then I had a plymouth acclaim that had lots of small problems until I sold it at 85k, granted most of those problems were because it sat from 94-99 without being started, then in a little over a year I put 45k on it.

After that I bought 2 focus's (one was my wifes) which were great until they hit 100k and I went through the gambit of car repair. between the 2 cars:

3 Crappily designed thermostat housings
3 head gaskets
3 fuel pumps
3 axles
3 (see a trend here) water pumps
3 altenators
3 steering columns
3 brake master cylinders
3 (another 3!) manual shift linkage cables
1 (no more 3's) gas tank
6 gas caps
2 windshield wiper motors
1 tourque converter
1 manual shift inkage
1 engine mount
1 non working door (it was a back door but thats why we sold the car)
neither glove box would stay up
2 broken hand brake cables
neither one had a cig outlet that would work longer than a few hours without blowing a fuse
electric seat motor blew
front brakes would only last between 15 and 20k miles

Thats all I can think of off the top of my head. Luckily we had 2 of them and after my car was deemed not worth it to fix anymore (128k), I put it in the driveway and used it for salvage parts. My wifes car had 124k miles and the back door sropped opening, then failed inspection so we traded it in for the fit, and got $1600 (lucky we got that much) for it.

Nothing against the fiesta, I just hope you didnt have the same experience I've had with it. I've heard of some bad stuff with them already, sync system freezes, keyless entry stops working, cruise conrol issues, dual clutch auto tranny problems, CEL throwing a code for brake service, fuel pump control thingie thinking the airbags deployed, decel fuel shutoff sometimes takes too long to kick in resulting in a stalled car. Thats it, not sure how prevalent each of those problem is but thats the stuff I have heard of so far.

Go here for fiesta related questions, they can answer you most stuff

http://www.fiestafaction.com/forums/