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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Interested in others thoughts, with the last run of Fiesta ST you get over the current model
- 320Nm over 290Nm - full digital display instead of analogue - Ford Performance seats over Recaro- not sure if they have some electronic adjustment on the new seats, seems to be a button there in pics. - Matrix LED headlamps with build in foglights - New front end. You lose - BLIS with rear cross traffic - AM radio It all sounds great but I'd really miss BLIS with rear cross that I have in my current one! Anyway thoughts on the update, do they justify losing those features?
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AM Radio ? no big deal run it from the phone via an App. I’d say to “fans”, get one. |
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The extra NM torque would be good.
But I personally do not like the thick frumpy higher front end front nose- that would effect coefficient of friction and be a real drag at speed. The Mk8 small low tight front end nose is just much better IMO. The power you can workaround with tunes/intercooler etc. But you are stuck with sheetmetal forever.....
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if you can even get one. they've stopped importing them and the last 40 or so already have orders
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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Haven’t driven one, but have been for a ride. That 3 cylinder motor is pretty epic and sounds awesome. I’d lean towards a new one but really they are both great cars.
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I'd turn off the current safety things you would lose in the new Fiesta and see if you are happy without them while driving your current one...if you are then I know what you'll be doing asap....if you think nah, I really want the features then don't go for a test drive of the new one as you'll avoid the constant niggle of "should I have upgraded"...either way you have a modern-day classic... |
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So today I decided to swap front passenger tyre on my Mk 8 ST with rear tyre, as front passenger tyre has started chunking due to defective torque characteristics of engine.
Beware- the folding wheel wrench that sits in the jack is an absolute joke- I put some force on it to free wheel lug and its soft and flimsy and would have collapsed and melted like cheese had I tried to remove the lugs. Really Ford should be shot for this- sending cars to Australia on pretext of having a spare and jack and wheel wrench to do wheel change- when I can tell you- say you are 400km above Alice Springs on Stuart Highway, or worse -somewhere remote-ie- Butterfly Gorge anyone?? with a flat, and this wheel wrench would just warp- and you would be stranded. That could be a serious predicament at Butterfly Gorge etc. So- heads up- get a proper folding wheel wrench, place it in the rear tub, to avoid you being stranded.
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Mind you I cant remember last time I had a flat etc. I keep an extendable breaker bar style brace with hex socket in all our cars for this very reason. |
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The nuts were tight, but I got them off using a standard stanley ratchet, so was not that tight. I tried the provided factory inbuilt "brace" and it started twisting and warping the metal at about 50% of the torque that would have been required to remove the nut. Useless. My fgx xr8 came with a proper fixed cast piece wheel brace that is bluddy strong, I mean stand and bounce on it strong. Difference between Australian engineering and European I suppose. In Australia with our remote areas with no mobile phone and scant people, may as well be on the moon in some areas. I mean Europe usually go with blow up sealant spray and no spare, Ford Australia required a spare spacesaver for the ST, pity they did not give a 1 piece cast wheel brace like the FGX XR8.
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