Ford fiesta eco boom

sheslookinhot

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6660549/ford-fiesta-eco-boom

The car is not fit for scrap, a good reconditioned engine will be a few grand at most. Just check the cam belt.

Dustyevsky

The car isn't scrap; it just needs further inward investment.

I'd say your son's experience is similar to mine in the 1970s when I purchased a Hillman Imp. The manufacturers chose an engine that might have been fine for racing cars, but it didn't stand up well to the grind of daily use.

I learned from that mistake. Even more than 50 years ago, it was possible to find out about known issues with cars, just a little harder.

born_again

 it genuinely begs belief how Ford managed to engineer the EcoBoost to take twelve of more hours for a routine maintenance item,

One word. COST

Think of that comment if you are a manufacture or garage… It simply jumps out at you ££££

EcoBoost engine cheaper to build. If it's a £ a unit & you build a million that £1,000,000 saved & a extra 12 x hourly garage rate for them 🤷‍♀️🤣

Mildly_Miffed

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81932799#Comment_81932799

Nah, I don't buy that.

Not when the Puretech cambelt is 2.5hrs to change.

Watch yoochoob videos on how to do the job on each…

The difference is that with the PSA engine, you simply remove the outer aux belt pulley, a cover, then the main pulley. Cam pulleys off, and ift the belt out the top.
The Ecoboost, you need to remove the entire cover. Worse, you need to remove the starter motor and exhaust to fit the locking tools.

They simply didn't bother to make it accessible for service. It's almost as if they did the opposite - made it deliberately hard.
The manufacturing cost difference? Zero to minimal.

QrizB

The manufacturing cost difference? Zero to minimal.

It might've saved them $100k in manufacturing engineering costs, to engineer it in such a way that you didn't have to do all those things.

Or it might've let them cut a fortnight from the critical path to getting the product on the market. (I've known engineering project managers do some crazy stuff in the interests of hitting an arbitrary deadline.)

Goudy

Pumaspeed in Wakefield seem like the go to place for remanufactured Eco Boost engines.

They will crate them out or fit onsite at a cost.

All in you are probably looking at around £3k for them to fit.

They list the engine for around £1600 but for they labour to fit plus the engine plus oil, new plugs and you'd want to throw a new clutch in at the same time, it pushes the price up.