Ford Ecoboost Wet Belt - Bristol

[CalNaughtonJnr]

Just been quoted £1600 by Clevedon Garages to change the wet belt on my Focus 1.0 ecoboost - can anyone recommend an independent in the Bristol area please?

[Summit_Detailing]

If you don't mind whizzing along the M4, may I recommend L J Cooper & Sons at Hankerton - been using them for years..I still use them now, even though its a 200+ mile roundtrip.

Cheers,

Chris

[K50 DEL]

I was chatting to the owner of my local independent yesterday about these, as he has a 16 plate 1.0 ecoboost in with a replacement engine at the moment as the owner didn't maintain the car properly and it snapped the belt.

He was describing to me how the system works, and the complexity of changing the belt - it books as an 8hr job as half the engine has to be removed in order to do it.

No help in terms of a recommendation for you, but given this is supposed to be a "simple" car for mass-market, everyday use it does make you wonder why Ford designed it to make the maintenance so costly and difficult.

[Whistle]

This is why I have just sold our focus.

At work we have a transit connect with the same engine, 68k miles full service history. Belt went on the motorway.
Resulting in a con rod through the bottom end. We had to put a new (second hand) engine in it costing £4k

[the chav]

Have you checked to see if you can get ford to fix it

I did read something the other day that ford now no about this problem and did a recall on certain cars as they admitted its a common fault as they said the wat belt design was good for 150k but have seen engines fail around 60k

The wet belt slowly breaks down causing the puck up pipe to get blocked and a loss in engine oil pressure .And can also be felt by engine performance down on power

Hope this helps

I can have a word with a mechanic friend and see if he would do it on his drive in Bristol

Ex Ford mechanic

Edited by the chav on Wednesday 24th January 10:37

[the chav]

[mark-3bw80]

My friend had his done last week at My Garage at Emersons green 01179701346 for £1400.

[Red9zero]

mark-3bw80 said:

My friend had his done last week at My Garage at Emersons green 01179701346 for £1400.

Not that much cheaper than the dealer price that the OP got. I was at Clevedon Garages recently (service on our Mazda that they are also dealers for) and the wet belt issue was a hot topic with the people in there looking at new cars. I think it is going to take Ford a long time to live this one down.

[iamthelurker]

I know this is an old thread but for anyone else landing here by search engine, I've been quoted approx £1100 at 247 autos in Whitchurch, Bristol. I've got an early Ecoboost Focus and I've been debating whether to get it done for a couple of years now. Still find it hard to justify the cost on what for me now is essentially an old banger.

[CalNaughtonJnr]

OP here - I ended up getting mine done by a mobile chap I had used a couple of times before and who has access to a workshop - I paid £1200 but this included fitting new front discs and pads, Eibach springs and changing the coolant hoses over to Mk3.5 spec (those parts supplied by me)

I was quoted £750 by a guy in Bedminster who happens to be a friend of a friend - at the time he said he was doing 2-3 belts a week so hopefully knows what he is doing!