keep reading tons of problems about them ?
i really dont want something that i cant drive for fixing it....... argh

 

Yes and no

Look after them right they will look after you

 

Depends what one you buy and how YOU look after it....



Its like any car!

 

thye are the most unreliable car ive ever owned,but i love fixing them and driving them and ive repalced everything twice or more with new parts but still it gives me headaches other than that there ok

 

well i have owned mine for 5 yr and the only problem i have had is the gearbox blow this year

and offcouse the normel service-parts

 

Had mine nearly 10 years, covered over 50k and its dumped me twice...

Once in 02 when it threw a ring, and just a couple of months ago the distibutor packed in...

Been running about 1 bar boost for over 8 years now, but its no longer an everyday car

Oh, and i once bust a gearbox at Croft but just managed to limp home on it.

Ive never known a ford like it, all the other ones ive had have been complete shite!!!

 

As above if you look after it and dont drive it like a race car 24/7 then you should'nt have any (big) problems but as said it depends what car you start out with if you buy one for 2k or less then it will need work and parts.

 

i've had 2. and apart from the odd oil pipe or hose and some good services i've never had a major problem

 

remember these cars are very old now if everything was new then you would only suffer from minor problems. The last time i had some major work done i replaced everything including car loom engine loom all switches only thing which goes wrong now are parts which have found there limit. renew and keep standard then the car will be reliable, you cant expect to be running 1 bar or more of boost with such old cars and not to be some problems.

 

Don't think its a coincidence the RST section of PF has the most threads and posts by far of all Ford marques

But yeah as said, buy yourself a good one, learn about them and treat it right. Good as the next car then

 

my last one was brilliant,
use dit every single day for 2 years, doing about 1500 miles a month, was running about 160 bhp and apart from the header tank developing a small leak it never ever broke,
but i did service it properly and treated it well,

my other one is running over 1.5 bar now and makes shite loads of power and breaks some thing quite frequently, but what do you expect, making double the standar dpower

 

how old are you again?

 

yeah, who was driving it / them ?

ERST's aren't unreliable at all. The problem is people who own them rag the arse off them all the time and don't maintian them properly. My view is if you can't afford to run a car properly then you can't afford the car - period. It's like anything - if you drive it like an arsehole / abuse it and don't give it some TLC occasionally it will break down be it a car, mountain bike...........anything ! Common sense surely ? Seems to be precious little of that here lately though I have to say.......

 

absolutely spot on that mr s1!!

 

Ta Common sense really. You can buy a shitter of an RST for 2 grand which is really bottom base for a runner. These kiddies buy one thats fucked anyway, then abuse it and wonder why it stops. Yet all these people say 'buy an BMW, they never break down'. OK - maybe it's because these cars are out of the price range of the dickheads who rag the arse off their RST and don't maintain them whereas if you spend £7k on a car you will probably look after it ?

Again, common sense.............but that lacks on PF most of the time doesn't it ?

 

When i started looking at them i though i would spend about 3k (In 1997)
Every one i looked at was just a complete bag of crap that needed 1000's spending to get it half decent.

So i ended up paying twice my original budget for the car i still have today One of the best things i ever did.

I rag it to death, always have done, have done countless trackdays and 3 trips to the ring in it, but it gets very well maintained and loads of TLC

As Mr S1 says, you need to be able to afford to run them, and if you cant give them the time and attention, they break!

 

spot on again dude

 

they are better than a porsche everytime

 

what he said ^

 

They can be relaible as said above but they do need alot of tlc and u need to learn about the ins/outs of um in order to maintain um properly.
buy a good un 2.5k, 3k territory thats bin looked after and she'll see u good
one positive thing is alot of parts are readily available as lots are being broke

 

The answer is simple just like evrything else:

If you are going to rag the fuck out of 24/7 and be completely ignorant until something goes wrong and not service/look after it........YES

If your going to do the exact opposite of the above......NO

 

Mr S1
SassyRS

16,
piont bieng,

getting feed up with this shit now,

you dont have to have a license to own and modifiy fords,

i like the way gazz doesnt get this treatment

 

Likewise. Can't add much more. Buy a shitter and whack the boost up it's not a case of if it breaks but when. It's usually the people that don't look after their cars that then complain about the car being unreliable. Mine was my daily runner for about 8 years and it was only this last 2 that it's become a toy and I have a normal car for daily duties. In that 8 years it never failed to get me to or from work

 

but driving 1500miles a month for 2yrs you would need a licence

or was it like "ferris bueller's day off" and u had it up on bricks

 

Yeah, he is modifying his car, therefore not really having a lot to say, and if you saw some things he used to say about ragging it down the street, you will see that he 'got this shit'

 

no if you carry out the services properly

 

Now now children

Who's to say he wasn't in the car while say his father/mother was driving it?

 

or older mates as i did when i was 16

 

In a word, yes. But a little preventative maintenance will go a long way. I look at mine as being a labour of love!

 

jade what exactly are yoou sucking on in that picture?

its not the actuator pipe is it

and yes, the xr turbo was used as a works car and drove by my uncle to ferry us to and from work

 

Probably syphoning petrol tanks

We all know what a "chavette" she is