Looking at Ford fiesta 1.0 Zetec s Ecoboost

[CaveyH]

Hi,

This forum has added a lot of information and has been really helpful, so if this is seen as clutter I will delete.

I am currently looking at mini cooper s (2009-2011) I have a budget of between £7 - 8000. I am also looking at ford fiesta 1.0 zetec s ecoboost (2010-1015)as well. The same budget gets me a newer Fiesta.

For anyone who has driven both what would you recommend?

And more specifically to the Fiesta are these age and generation seen as unreliable? Do they have big problems?


Thanks!

[MH82]

I bought my Nan a Mini 1.6 Cab and we had a Fiesta 1.0 Courtesy car.

Mini was better built and will keep it's money better

Fiesta has a better chassis and engine.

All in my opinion of course.

Test drive and see which you prefer, put the badge to one side and just go with your gut. As for reliability, i think they are quite similar...

[greenarrow]

The Mini Cooper S of this generation is famous for lunching its timing chain, so I'd be careful with that one. I cant remember when, but I believe part way through its life an update was made improving it, but it still has a dodgy rep.

The Ecoboost similarly needs care. Check its had the recall for the degas pipe which affects pre 2014 cars. Your budget should get you into a 2015 car, so you should be ok. I think I would want to get one with a reasonably low mileage.

The Mini will obviously be a lot faster than any 1.0 ecoboost, but use more fuel. Personally I'd take the Fiesta - brilliant chassis, perky engine with more than enough poke for UK conditions yet very good MPG if that bothers you..Bigger boot and more room too, if you need any of that.

[MarkwG]

greenarrow said:

The Mini Cooper S of this generation is famous for lunching its timing chain, so I'd be careful with that one. I cant remember when, but I believe part way through its life an update was made improving it, but it still has a dodgy rep.

The Ecoboost similarly needs care. Check its had the recall for the degas pipe which affects pre 2014 cars. Your budget should get you into a 2015 car, so you should be ok. I think I would want to get one with a reasonably low mileage.

The Mini will obviously be a lot faster than any 1.0 ecoboost, but use more fuel. Personally I'd take the Fiesta - brilliant chassis, perky engine with more than enough poke for UK conditions yet very good MPG if that bothers you..Bigger boot and more room too, if you need any of that.

The degas recall was for the Focus, the Fiestas were built with the improved pipe from day 1. I've driven both, although considerably more in the Fiesta, on balance the Ford is fine if well maintained, but less so if abused, & as one of the top UK selling cars, there are quite a few abused ones out there. Our current one is on +50k & touch wood, hasn't missed a beat. From what I know of friends Minis, they seem to suffer weird glitches, & those bits that break seem to be difficult to get at to fix, but that's a subjective opinion, rather than personal experience.

[PisstNBroke]

I'd probably avoid the Fiesta as I've read too many issues with that engine.
Citroen DS 3 shares alot of tech with the Mini.
In this segment alot of people seem to forget the Toyota Yaris which I believe is a more reliable car.

Edited by PisstNBroke on Thursday 19th December 06:52

[CaveyH]

Have purchased a fiesta zetec s red edition since this post. I'ts a 2016 which is more reliable than the early years, Everything seems good so far.

[MarkwG]

PisstNBroke said:

I'd probably avoid the Fiesta as I've read too many issues with that engine.
Citroen DS 3 shares alot of tech with the Mini.
In this segment alot of people seem to forget the Toyota Yaris which I believe is a more reliable car.

Edited by PisstNBroke on Thursday 19th December 06:52

Not how, for example, What Car sees it - https://www.whatcar.com/ford/fiesta/hatchback/used... - the only issues with the engine relate to the Focus, not the Fiesta: considering the target audience, the user profile & the volume sold, the Fiesta is no worse than some, & better than many others. I'm not sure what you mean by the DS3 "sharing tech" with the Mini - as far as I'm aware, only the early diesel engines were built by PSA, & that changed some years ago.