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Fiesta 1.25 MK.IV (facelift) opinions.

  • 10-07-2011 1:18am
    #1
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭


    Considering buying my first own car in the coming months and of the few that I'm looking at the Fiesta in a contender.

    I'm just wondering what is there to look out for with them. I also noticed that a lot of them that are for sale (in my price range) have mileage over 80k and higher. If properly maintained should everything be okay with these.

    Other cars im looking at also are 16v Punto, Corsa, Getz, Yaris, Clio.


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  • #2
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    What's your price range and what will you be using the car for?


  • #3
    Leonard Hofstadter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,541 ✭✭✭Leonard Hofstadter


    Mister Jingles wrote: »
    Considering buying my first own car in the coming months and of the few that I'm looking at the Fiesta in a contender.

    I'm just wondering what is there to look out for with them. I also noticed that a lot of them that are for sale (in my price range) have mileage over 80k and higher. If properly maintained should everything be okay with these.

    Other cars im looking at also are 16v Punto, Corsa, Getz, Yaris, Clio.

    The Fiesta is a great little car - reliable, great to drive and spacious. It has a rather cheaply made interior and I think some of the earlier models were a bit poor for safety equipment - ABS was optional I believe.

    Try and find a Steel model if you can as these are desirable secondhand and are quite well equipped. The Ghia has got the most equipment but is 1.4 minimum and despite the extra cubic capacity, it only has five more bhp than the 1.25 so it is rather pointless. Consequently, it is rare.


  • #4
    BrianD3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,513 ✭✭✭BrianD3


    Mk IV facelift is 1999-2002. The main thing to watch for is rot in the sills and arches and general underside. Even though it's a relatively modern car rust protection was lacking. Bad form from Ford but not surprising consider the rustbuckets they were churning out for the 80s and much of the 90s at a time when other manufacturers were significantly improving in this regard.


  • #5
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    Confab wrote: »
    What's your price range and what will you be using the car for?

    About 1500 and I'll be using it to get from A to B :)
    captainspeed wrote: »
    The Fiesta is a great little car - reliable, great to drive and spacious. It has a rather cheaply made interior and I think some of the earlier models were a bit poor for safety equipment - ABS was optional I believe.

    Try and find a Steel model if you can as these are desirable secondhand and are quite well equipped. The Ghia has got the most equipment but is 1.4 minimum and despite the extra cubic capacity, it only has five more bhp than the 1.25 so it is rather pointless. Consequently, it is rare.

    Thanks Captain a 1.4 would be out of the question for insurance reasons. I always thought that the Steel model was on the newer ones ?


  • #6
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Make sure it is the 1.25 litre Yamaha designed Zetec engine as there are alot of the old pinto 1.3 litre engined versions being advertised as Zetecs and 1.25 litre.

    You should be able to pick up one of the last of these models close to your budget. Most of them were Ghia models which came with air con, cd player, alloy wheels, etc which were pretty much unheard of in a car of that size at the time.

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2274341

    http://cars.donedeal.ie/for-sale/cars/2185567


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  • #7
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    Thanks Bazz. The silver one in the second link looks well and even better with the wheel caps.

    The green one there has 106k miles, would that be considered a lot for a 1.2 ?


  • #8
    Compton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,157 ✭✭✭Compton


    I've got those alloys on my mk5 haha very comfortable for going over ramps :p


  • #9
    bazz26
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,360 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    Mister Jingles wrote: »
    Thanks Bazz. The silver one in the second link looks well and even better with the wheel caps.

    The green one there has 106k miles, would that be considered a lot for a 1.2 ?

    106k miles is average for a 9 year old petrol car, that equates to 12k miles per year. Anyway the condition of a car is based on how it was driven and how it was maintained not by what the odometer reads.


  • #10
    Mister Jingles
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Mister Jingles


    bazz26 wrote: »
    106k miles is average for a 9 year old petrol car, that equates to 12k miles per year. Anyway the condition of a car is based on how it was driven and how it was maintained not by what the odometer reads.

    Thats what I wanted to know thanks :)


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