![]() ![]() The unsupported cylinders seem dodgy to me, but surely you would think that very smart people came up with the idea and exhaustively tested it BEFORE production. So now theres a generation of 1.6L owners all packing death that there car is going to fail, and in reality the actual failures likely are a tiny percent of the motors built. Im guessing that most of the problems come from a wide variety of coolant leaks and not associated with any bad engineering,more likely to poor assembly, however there are some cars that genuinely have problems, possible poor castings, and ford issued a recall in the endeavour to put off or minimise the incidents of failure. Just my thoughts, and not intended to minimise others frustrations. I suspect that new vehicle owners would do well to do the same today, once you know the vehicles unique characteristics ( just like a partner) you can enjoy a happy life together, I'm old enough to remember my farther doing a tune up and service BEFORE taking us all on a trip, and always with his head under the hood. ![]() Im an older guy and have always done my own servicing, unless the task required specialised tools, and have always taken the attitude that all cars new or used are individuals and you need to get to know them, checking fluids regularly is perhaps the first step. I have to ask, and it is apparent from many of the comments that there are a surprising number of owners who have absolutely no idea about vehicle maintenance, and simply leave all responsibility to the dealer service dept. US cars are locally assembled ( is that the problem?) The UK and EU cars are predominantly Diesel so a very different animal, our cars in Australia are built in Spain, and i guess as a very small market segment we don't seem to have the same issues, South Africia seems to have kicked it off with Fires. seems to me that one would need to ask why people are having so many problems.įrom an uninformed perspective i wonder if it is where the cars are being assembled. As the owner of a 1.6L and part of the recall, and having a car that has never displayed a problem,and had the recall done, i none the less monitor the coolant level every other day, and am not using a drop.
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