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Still got to be better than that modern shite.

Although Ford only build shit cars, and only ever have. Purely a ploy to sell more finance/cars.

Buy a cheap car that lasts three years... first major issue you trade it in for a new one because "it's worth more as a deposit" than the cost to fix it.

Repeat until the customer stops driving.

Does the Ecoboom last long enough to actually require a new belt?

Any mileage in retrofitting a 1.0 pinto in it's place

Or just avoiding the ecoboom in the first place.

That's the one


What the hell is a 1.0l Pinto? And don't forget, the normal 1.6 or 2.0l Pintos are long, tall and heavy when compared to similar capacity 4 cylinder engines. Not to mention expensive now that the cars they came in are well over thirty years old.

Wasn't that the original 1.0/1.1/1.3 Fester lump

You're thinking of the Valencia which is mostly the crossflow found in mk1/2 Escorts, but with virtually no interchangeable parts - like the weak three main bearing crank instead of the original unbreakable five bearing one....

no idea of the bulbs but front fog lights aren't included in the MOT 

Front fog lights are a testable item on cars first registered on or after 1 March 2018 also DRLs
also...
You need to test reversing lamps on vehicles first used from 1 September 2009.

no idea of the bulbs but front fog lights aren't included in the MOT 

Think H1s are the wrong bulb for the Irmscher lamps

I know I had to cut off the original plugs when I fitted mine but they were replaced with a different plug, but damned if I can recall the bulbs it came with.

It was bought new from Irmscher, so not previously interfered with, which second hand may have been.

The lamp casings were used on something else, Mundeo ST200 iirc... In which case H11 was quite probably what was fitted originally.

A "P1600" doesn't confirm the ECU is dead or faulty
it could be a damaged loom, connector pin, blown fuse .poor earth ,trapped wire or similar
even a sensor plugged in the wrong part of the loom or moisture ingress 
proper inspection and methodical diagnostics are required 

But it has been chipped, so much more likely the issue 

Me too, why vote for Lab/Con? Corrupt useless bastards🤬

thanks all, fortunately i have a handsome mechanic who will look after this error

A "P1600" doesn't confirm the ECU is dead or faulty
it could be a damaged loom, connector pin, blown fuse .poor earth ,trapped wire or similar
even a sensor plugged in the wrong part of the loom or moisture ingress 
proper inspection and methodical diagnostics are required 

A couple of my cars have a fog light out, and as the MOT's are due in a few weeks, thought a couple of new bulbs.. job done. But when I took one of the non working bulbs out ,it's an H1, and not knowing the history on the car I wouldn't know whether that is the correct bulb  fitment for the Irmscher bumper. I know that the H1 or the HB4 are for the standard Omega fog lights, but that H1 gets really hot in those small Irmscher fog light housings, and was wondering, if anyone knows what is the  correct bulb and required wattage is. TIA