The biggest problem with turbos is the drivers. People who blast off from a cold start or turn off a hot motor quickly.

There's plenty of advise on here on how to care for your engine and turbo. Look at the FAQ section.

And don't let the oil go 2 years without a change!

I often wonder why they spend as much time making Bluetooth enabled cupholders or whatever makes modern cars worth the expense, when for a small cost they could program the ECU to do the warm up for the most clueless of drivers. Limit rpm, throttle opening, detect labouring engine and electrocute the driver till they change down a gear, etc.

True that would cut the remote controlled glovebox budget, but long term reliability would go up. People will still tar the 10 year old car that breaks down because of their lack of care with the "It's a xxxx, what a pile of rubbish" brush

And as for not using the huge multifunction display to cajole or bully a driver into a damn service...

Hmmm...bit off topic. Sorry.

Edited by mss1tw on 05/07/2014 at 22:28

I'm not a great fan of 3 cylinder engines, I've noticed that a few of them fail with burned valves and some with rather short life spans.

Not all of them though. The 1.0 Aygo/C1/107/IQ/Yaris engine is very reliable, performs well and has good fuel consumption too.

The above posts by Cyd and Mss1tw should be moulded into to the dashboards of every new car.

The warm up cool down routine coupled with common sense (oil and filters are cheap, engines and turbos are not) maintenance will see most cars run for donkeys years without the slightest problem, coupled with a bit of sensible underbody care when the salt is down are the keys to a durable long life.

Edited by gordonbennet on 06/07/2014 at 10:23

The Fiesta can be had with other engines: I don't think the 1.25 has a turbo, does it?

In the end I have gone for the ageing 1.25 engine. My heart wanted the 1.0 Turbo, but my head was off the view that it is a very complex engine, and perhaps I should give it a few more years to prove itself.

GB has touched on something. Those of us who are old enough to remember what turbo's did to oils back in the early days of turbos will agree large mileages between oil changes are not a good thing, Especially on turbo charged engines.

As has been said, building turbo timers into the ECU's would be a good plan but, Then they wouldn't be selling many turbos a few years into the cars life.

New Jazz due next year....wait for that time or maybe there is a deal to be done on the run out models of the current model. Instead of rushing why not take time to see where a deal can be done.

Trailing edge technology buying in computers, cars, phones etc etc can be rewarding - the prices are lower and the bugs have been fixed.

48 yrs ago my first brand new car was an old model Ford. 20 months ago my current CRV was the outgoing model and cost me £20K Vs the new model listing at £31.5K.

Ford must be keen to shift some 1.0 turbos, drive the deal are offering £5,000 off a new Focus with that engine.