Wife wants a new car, and ford are doing 0% for 4 years on them.

anyone with opinions?

 

St3v3 has got one... I have been out and I reckoned it was pretty good to be fair.

Steve is well helpfull.. search for him and PM him and I am sure he will give you the low down. I know he did have 1 or 2 probs with it though

Shings

 

Just checke dthe ford web site and they want £2k extra for a 'custom pack'!!

basically leather heated Recaros and a 6 disk CD player.

Sounds dear to me.

 

what do you want to know matey?

 

I had one for the wife (using my Ford employee discount ) and have to say it was superb. We chose one with all the options and were well pleased with the full Leather Recaros,Top stereo and the Xenon headlights were fantastic.also having a full spec car meant we were able to sell it on when the time came really easily

 

Just wanted to know if they are under powered, reliable, any faults, you know the usual stuff.

would you recomend it?

looking at having it for 4 years until its paid off, I figure a 170 won't devalue as much as the others and the spec should be good as std.

If I want leather that much I'll get it done later. 1/2 leather for £400 can't be bad!

 

hi,

underpowered...not really,the main difference for me was i went from an s2 turbo to the st170 and the power delivery was different,a lot smoother instead of a kick in the back,which i do miss.Should max out at about 135mph maybe a little more.0-60 in 7 ish seconds (standard)

The faults yes there is a few faults main ones being cat heat sheilds,Faulty hego sensors and i personally had a problem with the steering lock armoured sheild which took ford 7 weeks to find me 2 shear bolts to rebolt the original back together after a bolt fell out

The car in its self is brilliant,i used to have t/a koni on my s2 and the ride was great but on the st170 in standard trim its a lot better, its like a go-cart,

The brakes are absolutely superb disk all round,

Petrol consumption should be up around 350ish to the tank about £40 about 36mpg ON A RUN not urban of which i dont bother checking,

Loads of boot space,tyers go at about 20,000 mls
and i must stress if you do buy one get as many optional extras you can afford,if you can see your way to getting full leather it will stand you in good stead,
if you were a bit closer i would let you take mine out,
i have thourght of selling mine recently as i feel the urge of a turbo car again but indecisivness has let the chances go by...
still anything else i can help you with give us a shout

 

yeah mines full spec and have a few offers at the £11500 mark but im scared i wont be able to get myself a reliable esc cos or 3dr for without having to spend more monney on it,

 

Online they are £15800 with metalic paint.

You thought it was slow after a S2! I've got a stg3 sapph so its going to be crap!!

Might have to go annoy the car sales men to see what kind of deal I can get.

Just wish the wife was happy with bangers

 

If......................you were to make me an offer and then blind fold me as you took it away........and got my missus to hand you the keys...............you might be able to have mine.............

no i didnt think it was slow just that the power delivery was different,its not slow by any means
oh and by the way mine cost £19995 new but i got mine of a guy who would break his own legs to sell it to get the new mini,

 

I also own a stage 3 saff and have recently bought an ST170. Got to say it took a bit of getting used to with the drop in power but that has got to be expected. As the above posts say the handling is spot on and i cant really fault it. Only problem has been a leaky pollen filter which lets water into the passenger footwell but other than that everythings ok. Best thing you can do is get one out on a road test and find some nice B roads. Ford gave us the demonstrator for a day no probs. Got mine for £12K in Imp Blue Registered Feb 04 with 4k miles on the clock from Ford.

 

I general the ST170 is a good car ............... but the few problems it has had the ford monkeys havent been able to fix yet

Mine has suffered from :

Squeeky Drivers seat - now fixed

Heat Shield rattling under car - still on going ( been in garage 5 times and a total of 8 full days for this fault )

Passenger side window stopped working - now fixed

Good points :

Very good spec inside and out
Good fun to drive
Rev well
Pulls well with low down torque for a N/A engine
revs very high
fun car for every day use

 

Andy it will most proberbly be the pas belt as mine has this fault

 

Do you have a ST170 then Doug?

Does yours make the metalic rattle at around 2000 rpm but only when the engine & exhaust is hot?

My ST has got to go back again and they want it for 3 days for them to fix it

 

Yes I do m8
I did get the noise at 1st when it was warm but does it at any time it feels like pissing me off now
Ive done the usual discarding the Cat sheild etc etc and now have come to the conclusion its the pas belt slipping weather its due to a faulty tensioner im still investigating even thou i work for ford your own car always seems to come last with the pure volume of work comming thru the workshop on a daily basis will let you know of any developments as and when i get them

Regards Doug

 

well i had this ratle at 1800rpm and it was for def the heat shield on the cat(not saying that its the same on all cars though)the thing is they dont remove the problem by doing things a different way they only put a new heat shield on of exactly the same,so the problem will re-ocure,thus no change,ive had this twice now and both times its been sorted....for a while

 

found 3 at a local dealer so going for a look in a minute.

black 3dr tints and leather mmmm.....

 

Dont forget,The leather upgrade includes proper recaros so buying a standard car and having it retrimmed at a latter date wont give you the same

 

just bought one.

black 3dr, 53 plate (jan) leather recaros, a/c, sun roof, sat nav, xenon lights, heated screens, etc

happy with the car and price

 

Sounds nice

If you dont mind me asking but how much did you pay for a ST170 with that spec? or no worries if you dont wanna post on here

Get some pictures up

 

new it was £20k+ retail, I got mine for £14k

needs some tints now

 

Sounds a nice car geez

 

it has a sunroof and a/c ?

 

That is TOP TOP TOP spec

Good price IMO, well done

 

I know, even the salesman thought it was odd. seems it has all the good options on it already.

only thing I can see its missing is the smokers pack and rear spoiler/brake light.

Any idea what the ESP option is on them?

 

Yeah its the Stability control, trys keeps it from getting out of shape if you do something silly in it

 

I have a 04/53 plate ST170

Mine is Imp Blue.
Climate Pack & Spoiler and the normal


Very Very Good motor.

I love mine

Dave

 

You mean 'traction control' ??

Coz its got that too!!