tomti

my ex's dad is selling his Sierra XR4x4 and im interested in it but i am tyrying to get to the bottom of something. He said it has a stamp on the inner wing from Ford saying 'no warranty supplied'. Why would it have this? He said its always been an essex car and he used to be old bill and checked if it was on the police records as being used by them at some point but nothing.

Also, the guy he bought it off has fitted 321 diffs or something??? Is that good?

I intrigued cos i like cars that have something interesting about them

cheers

Miller 3

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Prob used to be a Press car like mine..

RS LOZWORTH

mine says that on aswell it was a ford press car

tomti

aah so that explains it. cheers guys

tomti

dont suppose you could take a pic of this stamp so i can compare could you please?

orionmojo

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didn't Ford send 10 focus RS' straight to the crucher after being ragged by journo's cos they didn't want them leaking onto the second hand market straight away?

RS LOZWORTH

mine is a round piece of metal about the same size as a Ł2 coin with ''no manufactures warrenty'' stamped on it

Micky The Finn

police cars had these as well as pool cars.

cossie04

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Granada Cosworth i just broke up has this stamp riveted onto the slam panel. I did wonder...

tomti

ok well thanks for the replies guys. does anyone know about the 3.2.1 diffs? are they a good thing? i dont understand all the different ratios and stuff

tabetha

They also fitted this disc to cars returned under warranty, as well as the other reason scited, warranty returns are not allowed to be resold as new, so ford sell at auction with no warranty.
The diff/S are VERY unlikely to have been changed since it would of course involve TWO diffs, easy enough on the rear but not the front one, as no demand for these really .
tabetha

tichy.cosworth

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yes they did if you remember when it was realised to the press it came in different colors

tichy.cosworth

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is there a way to find out if you got a press car

orionmojo

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i only have a vague memory of it, not too sure on the details.

it does seem a shame though

RS LOZWORTH

ive tried contacting ford once to ask them but they cudnt help me, they said i need to know what dealer it came from- i would have thought they should know that, im gonna try and find out again now because its bugging me!

dojj

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i'm currently breaking a sierra with the same plate riveted to the vin plate

upon closer inspection it does seem to have had new front turrest welded in as they are different to the ones i have seen in the past

as for the diffs, 321?

look on the diff and see if there is a tag telling you the ratio, ford did a whole load of different rears but only 2 different sets of fronts, the 3.92:1 and the 3.62:1 version

tomti

the diffs weren't put on by ford they were changed by the bloke my ex's dad bought the car off. apparently he had about 5 xr4x4's. loved em