We Bought a Ford Focus Ecoboost 1.0 125 from a Car Auction 

Until we drop the sump we won’t know if the gamble paid off. 🤞

If you have 1 million people happy with the engine you don't hear about that if you have 100 people complain about the engine you hear about that I'm still driving my 2013 face lifted fiesta 1.0 101hp with even with the Powershift automatic and 135.000kmh on it with no major problems

Agreed. This is a human trait unfortunately.

Thankyou T wiz. It’s a nice nippy motor. I’m looking forward to fixing the faults and preparing ready to sell.

Agreed Bryan. 👍. We are starting to investigate at the beginning of next week. We will more than likely change the belts, water pump and anything else we come across as we don’t know it’s history and if the correct oil was used and not wishing to sell a car with potential issues.

Seemingly, the timing belt change is listed officially as a 14 hour job on these, so it's not going to be cheap. I had one of these around 6 or 7 years ago, and the fuel consumption was *nowhere* near Ford's claim. I never saw more than 44 mpg. The rubber door seals started coming loose on mine at 50k miles.... I've seen others with door seals trailing on the road since. Build quality isn't the best around..... I chopped mine in for an ex demo Golf Mk7 1.4Tsi DSG auto. The build quality on the Golf was from another World.

We have some loose door seals to sort. I’m surprised it is booked to 14hrs I would have expected it to be less. It would take us that long and more for sure. It appears to be the norm for manufacturers to overstate the mpg on their vehicles. Now doing the same for mileage range on their electric vehicles. 👍

Yes seems a controversial engine design

Yup 😂😂😂

Yes my workmate has one, he only had it a month until the engine light came on, still hasn’t got to the bottom of it

Diagnostic/ code reader should tell him 👍

@@christoffsgarage8873 yes but the point is, its probably down to the common fault on these engines.

Or Daft 😎. I like a challenge 👍

And use the correct oil 5w 20 👍

@@christoffsgarage8873 yep that aswell

Yes John we believe that the knocking noise that disappears when the clutch is depressed could be the thrust bearing. The 1.0 125 Ecoboost engine that’s in this Ford Focus has a wet cambelt and if the incorrect oil is used or not changed regularly ie annually (10000) then the wet cambelt starts to deteriorate and and particles of the belt starts to clog the oil pump filter pick up causing oil starvation to the engine. We should know more over the next few days as we start to investigate.

Thankyou Nicky for your comments. The video did not pick up the knocking noise very well. I think it’s different to what yours is. There definitely something not right. We will know more next week when we take a look at it 👍

@@christoffsgarage8873 ohw yeah sorry. Did not hear the knocking noise. I thought you were referring to the noise from the clutch. My bad 😅. Looking forward to next video. Cause the Focus are good cars. Even if they have such small engines

@@SilverSeeker232 nope, never had oil pressure issues. and mine has the timingchain. sorry for late reply, just got back from vacation in the UK

I maybe a bit old school but 200hp 1Ltr for a car does not sit right for reliability and durability, motorbike yes but car 🤔. You are right it’s not the nicest sounding engine owing to having only 3 cylinders.

No! The 200bhp version is the 1.5 EcoBoost 3-cylinder! Used in the Fiesta ST and Puma ST.

Is it? I stand corrected

Not had time to investigate as yet owing to pushing on with the XJS clutch replacement. I should get round to looking at the Ford Focus engine next Monday and will upload my findings after that.

@@christoffsgarage8873 do you have some news? Thanks.

Preliminary investigation suggest that the Dual mass flywheel (DMF) is failing. We won’t know fully until we take it apart.

@@christoffsgarage8873 thank you for a quick feedback. Ok, dual mass flywheel shows also another symptoms but maybe it’s just the beginning of the defect. I am looking forward for the end of this story ;).

@@christoffsgarage8873 hello again. Any news? There is a Ecoboost Club from Ukraine on youtube, and they have posted video with this knocking. They don’t know where this sound come from. They write, that many eb engines make this same sound but the cars still drive without problems. Thank you.

Yes and no. 1. The uprated coolant hose IS much more reliable than the original design, this kit can easily be retro fitted to a pre-facelist MK3 Focus.. 2. The wet belt disintegrating due to either not having oil changes when they should have been done and/or not using the correct and very specific specification of oil IS very much an issue. 3. Replacing the cambelt is also about a 10 hour job (most places just take the engine out to improve access), needs a number of specialist (expensive) tools and costs more than £1000 at a decent indi garage, leading to people dumping the cars before this job is due. It's actually a lovely little engine to drive, but the wet belt issue (both the susceptibility of the belt to degrade AND the cost to replace the belt) mean I wouldn't touch one with a barge pole unless the wet belt had just been done by Ford themselves. If it didn't also have good recent service history, that would also be a major 🚩

@@FatHead1979 I've had one in a 64 plate Focus Titanium X. 125 bhp. Very lacking. Speaking from experience.

Ref Point 3. You can do a wet belt change without any specialist tools whilst the engine in situ without difficulty. Checkout Kennedy’s Garage. He has a video, scroll back 6 months on his channel to find it. 👍

@@IfInDoubt.. that’s interesting as we are finding this car nippy and responsive to drive.

Hi Sean, 5500 What currency was that in surely not £ ?

@@christoffsgarage8873 it was euro Chris!

Wow ! … new Ecoboost engine in UK is £2400 2750 Euro.

Hey Aris, thanks for commenting. The car was registered June 2014 so engine would be before that. What was the “fix” you mentioned?

@@christoffsgarage8873 There was issue with cooling system which would result in engine failures. Ford says that 44,682 Ford cars with the three-cylinder turbocharged 1.0-litre engine produced between October 2011 and October 2013 were fitted with a nylon coolant pipe between the engine and coolant tank that had the potential to fail at high temperatures.

@@user-jb5rl7qn3v 👍 Thankyou for your reply. Yes I know about one. They replaced it with a metal pipe.

Trust me it all off the cuff. Not long started this channel and it will I guess take a while to be natural in front of the camera. Not all small cars have side pillar impact bags. Take your point on the indicators though, enthusiasm got the better of me 😎

Agree thrust bearing and on the job list to be done. Engine fine though 👍

It feels about the same as the old 1.8 Litre engine in the Mondeo Mk 3 (2000-2007). But the 3-cylinder Ecoboost has more torque at lower rmp.

@@schaerfentiefe1967 It doesn't. You rely on the turbo to get it moving - if it's off boost, it will not move. That old 1.8 is smooth from idle. It's also chain driven rather than wet belt, so is pretty unburstable.

Yes John. They don’t age well if neglected. Regular oil changes using correct 5w 20 oil annually or 10000miles seems to be the consensus of opinion.

nothing happens if u open the bottom of the engine and clean the filter during timing belt change on time(10 years or 150k miles). i have friends with a focus 1.0 at 150k miles..mine is 10 years old. just made timing belt changed. first versions of 1.0 has 3 common issues which can be fixed

That’s encouraging to hear 👍

Yes it’s not the best engine to come out of the Ford camp 🙈