Fiesta Wet belt or not??

[Yorkshirerover]

Hi peeps. Girlfriend recently got a 20 plate fiesta either 1 litre or 1.1 litre not sure exactly vct engine I believe. No turbo and not an ecoboom. For the life of me I cant find any information online whether it has a wet belt or not? No idea if it’s a chain, belt or wet belt. Does anybody know?? 🙄😁👌

[LightweightLouisDanvers]

Any recent 1.0 Ford unfortunately is the wet belt Ecoboost engine

[georgeyboy12345]

It’ll be a chain

[7 5 7]

Recent ones use cam-chaim now, but still use a small wet belt on the oil pump, no idea why (2018+)

Stick the reg in euro car parts or equivalent see what comes up for it.

[georgeyboy12345]

The 1.1 Ti-VCT is a duratec engine and is uses a timing chain. There is no wet belt at all.

[tallpaul26]

LightweightLouisDanvers said:

Any recent 1.0 Ford unfortunately is the wet belt Ecoboost engine

Nope. With the introduction of MHEV they moved to a cam chain.

[cknotty]

I believe earlier ones with the wet timing belt have the turbo located nearest the front of the car. The turbo position was reversed with the later chain driven ones, although have read the oil pump drive is still a wet belt.

[AgentZ]

Yorkshirerover said:

Hi peeps. Girlfriend recently got a 20 plate fiesta either 1 litre or 1.1 litre not sure exactly vct engine I believe. No turbo and not an ecoboom. For the life of me I cant find any information online whether it has a wet belt or not? No idea if it s a chain, belt or wet belt. Does anybody know?? ???

The 1.1 litre is indeed a wet belt engine with port injection rather then direct. I guess Ford used the Ti-VCT name to differentiate from the EcoBoost.

[Kevin-2g5x2]

Well after those mixed replies bet OP is more confused than ever and he's not the only one !

[twing]

Yorkshirerover said:

Hi peeps. Girlfriend recently got a 20 plate fiesta either 1 litre or 1.1 litre not sure exactly vct engine I believe. No turbo and not an ecoboom. For the life of me I cant find any information online whether it has a wet belt or not? No idea if it s a chain, belt or wet belt. Does anybody know?? ???

Reg number?

[tallpaul26]

Kevin-2g5x2 said:

Well after those mixed replies bet OP is more confused than ever and he's not the only one !

If it's a 20-plate then the options are:

- 1.0T Ecoboost (wet-belt)
- 1.0T MHEV Ecoboost (chain)
- 1.1 Ti-VCT Duratec (wet-belt)

[Smint]

Kevin-2g5x2 said:

Well after those mixed replies bet OP is more confused than ever and he's not the only one !

Same here, Yaris it is then.

[AgentZ]

FWIW the lads at The Car Edition did a 1.1 litre wet belt YouTube short a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/U6zNKdXWJPM