Originally Posted by
DanW@FastFord
You car drill them, but the hole needs to be so large to not trigger the EML as to render the blanking plate useless. It would make more sense to blank it normally and clear the code every so often with a cheap code reader.
Either that or just clean it out every few thousand miles.
All the main points have been covered - but I would say that £2k is top whack for a 2005 115.
They're great cars when they work well, just pray you don't suffer from injector issues as it can get very expensive, very quickly. You don't mention the mileage - but if it's over 80K then I'd want receipts for replacement injectors. If not, they could pop at any time (or be fine for thousands of miles, it does seem a bit random)
She has done 134,000 miles mate. Full Ford history. Going to offer a bit less I think after having some very good help and advise. She drove very well, inside is like new, back seats have never been sat on! Only think was this very slight clunking noise. Bloke who is selling it is a trader and it looks like he gets first dibs on all the Fords from this particular Ford dealership before they go to auction.