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      04-15-2019, 12:06 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by tonyb15re View Post
I was chatting with a bloke who had a Focus, yes I know its not the same build quality etc, he was telling me that he had to take his car back into Ford because the engine was knackered, he blamed the ASS for it as he had heard many reports of the same issue and Ford having to replace engines because of it, they eventually replaced his engine under alleged warranty.. I much prefer to be the person who decides when I want to turn my engine off The machines would take over the world otherwise
A 1.0 Ecoboost was it? They have a bad reputation with failed Degas pipes, so I'd question the stop-start effect. I've had ASS on a Cooper S and Nissan Juke (now with 66k on the clock) and never had a problem.
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