2014 Focus ST estate "catastrophic" engine failure
Discussion
Hello, I've owned a 2014 Focus ST estate since May, its on about 65k miles so not especially leggy and is (was) in generally decent condition.
However, I noticed an evil smell and lots of white smoke from the exhaust recently. Temperature all over the place, and an intermittent loss of power. Upon taking it home and filling up the coolant tank, it leaked straight out (though not onto the drive).
Initially I suspected it was a failed head gasket, but the specialist to whom I took it now tells me it is a "catastrophic failure of the block, probably between pistons 2 and 3". The upshot is a quote of around £6.5k for a new engine! not quite the xmas present I'd hoped for...
I'd always understood that the Ford 2L focus ST engine was pretty strong, so is this a known fault? and is £6.5k a fair ballpark? (Ford themselves were quoting nearer 9k for the new engine), and finally, is it worth replacing or am I better of selling it for scrapage and finding something else?
Any thoughts would be most welcome - I've never owned a Ford before, but sense that there may be a pretty big knowledge base on here so any advice would be awesome.
Thanks in advance
However, I noticed an evil smell and lots of white smoke from the exhaust recently. Temperature all over the place, and an intermittent loss of power. Upon taking it home and filling up the coolant tank, it leaked straight out (though not onto the drive).
Initially I suspected it was a failed head gasket, but the specialist to whom I took it now tells me it is a "catastrophic failure of the block, probably between pistons 2 and 3". The upshot is a quote of around £6.5k for a new engine! not quite the xmas present I'd hoped for...
I'd always understood that the Ford 2L focus ST engine was pretty strong, so is this a known fault? and is £6.5k a fair ballpark? (Ford themselves were quoting nearer 9k for the new engine), and finally, is it worth replacing or am I better of selling it for scrapage and finding something else?
Any thoughts would be most welcome - I've never owned a Ford before, but sense that there may be a pretty big knowledge base on here so any advice would be awesome.
Thanks in advance
Had one in past and looked at a mountune one that was for sale in Derby.
It had a 3.5k bill for engine rebuild been done for a melted no1 piston. Read up on it and turns out it's a very common problem if been overboosted ect can melt the pistons. One I looked at looked thrashed so walked gast away
It had a 3.5k bill for engine rebuild been done for a melted no1 piston. Read up on it and turns out it's a very common problem if been overboosted ect can melt the pistons. One I looked at looked thrashed so walked gast away
Zetec-S said:
Probably a bit late with this, but if you're on Facebook get on the Mk3 ST/RS owners group, they'll probably have some good advice.
Even later here, but yes there is I think someone on there that rebuilds them.Ecoboom refers to the 1.0 ecoboost.
The 2.0 is a very reliable engine. There's two things that seem to do this - one is modifying with too much power without uprating the engine internals/forging etc, and the second is flooring it at low speed & low revs, ie from say 30-40mph in 6th gear or something.
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