Who here owns a Fiesta ST?

meh? · 23 Jun 2014 at 15:18

I got it before I sprayed the cover

JamesM · 23 Jun 2014 at 15:53

Overlag said:
are you kidding? lol, ive done about 20

MR200 vs MP215 my MR200 won by 0.5seconds at Howfast, but that's mad considering uprated everything vs a standard MP215

Daft sod

I know that

I meant as a refresher to compare like for like.

mr tommo · 24 Jun 2014 at 00:39

killer_uk said:
I travel along A50, A500 and through Newcastle every day and get avg 42mpg.

oweneades said:
Average anywhere between 35 and 45mpg for us (mixture of driving).

Town driving will see low MPG but pretty much any non hybrid / electric car will do poorly in this sort of scenario.

Thanks.... I've got the all clear from the Mrs

Will contact G2L tomorrow, no idea what colour to go for though.. blue, black and white are my favourites.

I'll be adding the style pack too.

Could do with a long lead time as it will give me chance to get the Fiat 500 sold.

lmfy2k · 24 Jun 2014 at 07:23

mr tommo said:
Thanks.... I've got the all clear from the Mrs

Will contact G2L tomorrow, no idea what colour to go for though.. blue, black and white are my favourites.

I'll be adding the style pack too.

Could do with a long lead time as it will give me chance to get the Fiat 500 sold.

I think they are saying mid August now at g2l

I liked the white but a. It costs more and b. there are too many white zetec s models on the road which from far look similar to the st.

It's all about spirit blue

oweneades · 24 Jun 2014 at 07:59

mr tommo said:
Thanks.... I've got the all clear from the Mrs

Will contact G2L tomorrow, no idea what colour to go for though.. blue, black and white are my favourites.

I'll be adding the style pack too.

Could do with a long lead time as it will give me chance to get the Fiat 500 sold.

Blue, get Blue. Or Red, no Blue, Black? No get Blue.

(Mine is Blue).

mr tommo · 24 Jun 2014 at 11:31

Is spirit blue exclusive to the ST then?

Saw a black one today but didn't think it showed the lines and stuck on bits off too well. Blue it is!

Mid August would be perfect!

Struggling to price the 500, hardly any in the country for sale privately with same spec and mileage. Will have a good look today.

mr tommo · 24 Jun 2014 at 11:31

Is spirit blue exclusive to the ST then?

Saw a black one today but didn't think it showed the lines and stuck on bits off too well. Blue it is!

Mid August would be perfect!

Struggling to price the 500, hardly any in the country for sale privately with same spec and mileage. Will have a good look today.

mr tommo · 24 Jun 2014 at 14:36

Had a quote through, seems they are adding £377 over the term for the Style Pack. I've tried to haggle this down to £275 as an upfront payment.

meh? · 24 Jun 2014 at 14:47

Just get a ST-2 which includes the style pack

Oh and Spirit Blue is where its at

mr tommo · 24 Jun 2014 at 14:54

It's not included on the ST-2 as far as I am aware?

meh? · 24 Jun 2014 at 14:56

If it's the ST Styling Pack’, which consists of grey 17-inch alloys, illuminated scuff plates and red painted brake callipers.

That comes standard on ST-2's

lmfy2k · 24 Jun 2014 at 15:02

only standard on PCP deals or if buying from places like drive the deal

with G2L you have to add it on i believe?

i had to add mine on to my ST3! (g2l)

Ford Fiesta Hatchback

1.6 EcoBoost ST-3 3dr Manual [2014.5]

Including Metallic Paint

+ ST Style Package

24 Month Contract

6 + 23 Payment Profile

8,000 Miles per annum

Non-Maintained Contract

£218.30 Including VAT – Personal Contract Hire

Initial Payment - £1,309.80 Inc VAT

mr tommo · 24 Jun 2014 at 15:24

killer_uk said:
I travel along A50, A500 and through Newcastle every day and get avg 42mpg.

oweneades said:
Average anywhere between 35 and 45mpg for us (mixture of driving).

Town driving will see low MPG but pretty much any non hybrid / electric car will do poorly in this sort of scenario.

lmfy2k said:
only standard on PCP deals or if buying from places like drive the deal

with G2L you have to add it on i believe?

i had to add mine on to my ST3! (g2l)

Ahh I see. Had a reply back now anyway, rather than spread the cost of the styling pack over the monthly payments (where they also added £102 to the cost of the pack), I can pay the £275 upfront.

oweneades · 25 Jun 2014 at 08:30

Had contact from the Garage fitting our Mountune kit and it is going in this Saturday!

We thought it would be a 2-3 week wait (actually told this initially) so now we are quite excited.

Roll on Saturday.

oweneades · 28 Jun 2014 at 20:03

Half way there....

Airbox fitted but the system required to load the Mountune software was unavailable due to the internet being down. Apparently it is all on-line (W T F?!) thus loading the map was not possible.

Obviously we are a little disappointed but luckily only have to wait until Thursday to get the map installed.

shauncr91 · 28 Jun 2014 at 21:21

oweneades said:
Half way there....

Airbox fitted but the system required to load the Mountune software was unavailable due to the internet being down. Apparently it is all on-line (W T F?!) thus loading the map was not possible.

Obviously we are a little disappointed but luckily only have to wait until Thursday to get the map installed.

To my understanding all Mountune packs have encryption on them (At least on the mk6) so it's hard to copy/edit them, probably have a similarly secure system for installing a map file.

oweneades · 4 Jul 2014 at 07:56

(Excuse the picture: dirt + garage + spot light + camera flash = crap picture).

First impressions are very good. We have both noticed the increased pull in 3rd and upwards (especially 6th). This is coming from driving the stock car for over 14.5K miles thus the improvement is possibly more noticable to us than say getting the upgrade a few hundred miles in. Traction and overall stability seems completely unaffected.

Roll on the weekend where we can driver her some more (and clean her).

lmfy2k · 4 Jul 2014 at 16:34

Meant to be getting my Fiesta ST3 on Monday

just had a call from the lease comany (G2L) and they have told me during PDI they found the battery light was on and it needed to go back to the dealership? thought the PDI was done at the dealership?

anyway, this will now add a few days on now, hopefully it will be a change of battery only and any other issue!

a great start!

OliP · 5 Jul 2014 at 12:55

I'm looking at getting a Fiesta ST next month is 5k a good budged to get nice one? Looking at 2006-2008 models all seem to have 50-80k miles.

The ones that have caught my eye are.

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201406124971061/usedcars?logcode=visc
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201407045542090/usedcars?logcode=visc
http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201406195137424/usedcars

Is there anything that i need to look out for when test driving these?

shauncr91 · 5 Jul 2014 at 14:37

That white one looks very nice, climate is a big bonus too because I've only seen a handful of cars with it!

Things to look out for:
- Stiff gears when warm. This is a very small issue but can feel worse than it is, it's simply a 20 minute job to replace a small job on the gear linkage.
- Black PAS fluid. The worst problem with these cars and I can pretty much guarantee that every car you look at will have it, you should listen carefully to the PAS pump making any odd sounds as the boiled fluid can ruin it. Budget ~£100 for a decent PAS cooler such as the SiCo kit (Or the Mountune one if you're only using it on the street), Ford should've fitted one from the factory.
- Starting problems. Unlikely to affect a later production car but it can happen, there is a Ford ECU update which fixes this and will probably cost you Around £25 for the privilege :rolleyes: