had 1 ford, wouldn't buy another

189,000 new Fords sold just in the first 6 months of 2013, so there must be a fair few people happy to buy and buy again.

 

& the Fiesta the top selling UK model 2013 with 122,000, they must be doing something that people like.

The Focus was the 2nd top seller.

 

In Comparison, in 2013 Skoda sold 66,000 cars in the UK.

Fabia's accounting for over 40% of their sales.

Even if Ford did not damage my car I wouldn't buy a transit van, they are dreadful things, noisy, cheap and generally not nice!  Go and look at Transporters or Sprinters although a Sprinter will rot as do all things Mercedes.

 

 As for the sump plug situation, stand your ground, take all invoices and if they replaced the plug or not they must know that only them have ever serviced the vehicle so to me it is an open and shut case, Ford is at fault.

The new ones are meant to be very good.

Agree 100%.

 

Shame that they were our local Ford dealer and a few months before we negotiated a good price on supplying company vehicles though.

 

I'll be mentioning the cancelled order for 6 new Transit 17 seaters when I send the letter in.

Got the same deal from Vauxhall.

 

Well if they don't listen to reason at this point, you're going to have a sales person wanting to kill his services department.

 

& the Fiesta the top selling UK model 2013 with 122,000, they must be doing something that people like.

 

 

Had a Mk4 Fiesta as my first car. Hated everything about it apart from the engine, which was brilliant (the 16v 1.25 lump)

 

If I wanted to buy a smaller car again though would I buy one again? No, probably not, I test drove the current generation a while ago and the turning circle seemed to be around the same of an ocean liner (the same problem as my Mk4) and my left foot kept rubbing against the centre console when depressing the clutch which drove me bonkers after only half an hour.

You probably do not have girlie size feet, and it is lots of girlies that buy Fiestas.   (I read that very magazine in the 70's, well i never actually read it)

 

The girlies and blokes seem to even like the ST 2.

If it is a corrosive wear issue on the sump, then surely it is at risk of failure? Or at least nobody can say for sure that it wouldn't happen. I would just keep going higher and higher up the ladder. Sooner or later it will get paid for. Its not about the money, I completely agree with that. Big companies seem to think that they can just get away with ever they want just to save money.

Had a Mk4 Fiesta as my first car. Hated everything about it apart from the engine, which was brilliant (the 16v 1.25 lump)

 

Isn't that the one that was developed and built by Yamaha?

Isn't that the one that was developed and built by Yamaha?

 

Wikipedia says you're right, developed with Yamaha and Mazda apparently.

The 1.7 lump in the Ford Puma was also from Yamaha, a great engine.

Oh and Cosworth made some cracking engines for Ford to wrap their cars around.

 

OOooooo, seems that all the good engines in Fords were made by other people ;)