Cazy-Corsa
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Registered: 31st Aug 09
Location: Grangemouth, Scotland
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wondering if there is any ford people out there that can help me out.
looking at buying an 08 plate for zetec-s in white/silver, just wondering how good a car they are, i.e reliable, fast, looks etc in you opinions?
any help would be great, cheers
callum
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Yeah they're decent cars. I had mine for a year, used it everyday, 30k miles in a year, a few trackdays, never put a foot wrong.
Cheap on fuel did 300 miles to a tank I think the most I got it down too was 250 with pure ragging lol.
And I think they look excellent.
However can you stretch to an ST?
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Robo C20Let
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Registered: 22nd Feb 10
Location: Somewhere inside your mom !!!
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i own one and has never let me down, they are nippy but far from fast lol still beats all the chavs in the 1.2,
i average about 36mpg with mixed driving
handles mint for the car it and will take abuse all day long
just watch out tho i have had 3 spoilers nicked and 2 sets of bumpers the wankers little chavs sticking them on there little 1.25 zetecs
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Richardhhha
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Registered: 29th Sep 07
Location: Croydon, Greater London
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i prefer the mk6 ones as the 6.5 with them daft headlamps look stupid and spoil it for me really.
Cracking cars, easely tunable and relitivly cheap to do compaired to other makes with cars in the same market,
Only things i found that went comonly on them is thermostat gaskets, water pumps, coil packs, cam cover gaskets and the occasional inlet manifold inploding. But all zetec engines had these problems
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deano87
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Registered: 21st Oct 06
Location: Bedfordshire Drives: Ford Fiesta
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Diesel is supposed to be a cracking car.
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Toby
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Registered: 29th Nov 05
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If you can stretch to a st, far superior in comparison
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
Location: Essex
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my old one, before and after.
bought it from new and had no problems whatsoever.
was a really nice car.
could've done with a bit more power, about 120bhp would've been perfect but it was still a good car.
interiors are alright but the plastics are a bit poo and mark easily. i had half leather seats in mine and they are far better than the normal cloth ones.
if you get an 07-57 one you usually get the half leathers in them as ford has a problem with the supplier of the seats and had to change at a moments notice so got someone else to make the half leather ones.
they do look alright as standard, but i wanted bigger wheels as the standard 16's look a bit lost in the arches and they do need lowering (eibach springs are £74 with ford discount and designed exactly ford the car and keeps warranty intact).
the diesel remaps to about 120bhp iirc and is superior, but it sounds like a bit of a tractor.
as said, people do steal the spoilers and bumpers so get a good alarm on it. i had a toad ai606 and it used to go off if my cat went under the car 
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