Any recent experiences to feed into this thread? I have a family member that is upgrading soon and their ecoboost focus will come up for sale in the new year probably for very cheap. It's mint etc, but aware that this work might need doing soon.
Just had the wifes car done, 54k miles, 10 years old, we've had the car from new.
Local garage, 12hrs labour ~£1250 all in.
Asked the garage to let me know how bad it was, they said they'd take photos.
When I picked up, they said no photo's taken as it was super clean, no debries and old belts still in good condition.
One of the cleanest they had seen... they have one person who 'specialises' in this job.
It's been serviced every year, 4 x ford (as I had the 5yr warranty) then the rest at the same garage.
Garage has always billed the correct Castrol Magnatec 5W-20 oil rather than lucky dip bulk oil.
I suspect the combination of low milage between services (5-6k) and good oil has helped to preserve it, the oil is always pretty clean when dipped.
If it's had a tough life or uncertain service history then you may want to reconsider.
Poor oil quality also kills the turbo and the vacuum pump which some have had fail along with the wet belt.
Only issue I had was the coolant pipe split, it was the new type but the small hard plastic pipe split in the braid near the bonnet catch.
Caught it when it had only lost ~1lt coolant, so new pipe and all is good.
Pipe is ~ £45 on ebay for ford OEM so and takes less than 10 mins to swap. The far ends just push in and the middle pushes onto the turbo outlet, but you need to trigger the hose clip on the turbo pipe so it grips as it comes 'unactivated'..... just need some pliers.
I'd swap that on any used model.
Only other thing I want to do is swap the coolant header tank... apparently ~ £20 for OEM and they can split.
The issue with the engine is the temp sensor is badly located so if it dumps coolant, by the time the light comes on the engine in toast.
