Welcome to the Ford ST Owners Club!

[Shlade]

Who's that?

[xnvy]

One of those guys that's always near the top of PAX in Autocross.

[Shlade]

Ah what's he drive?

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

I may show depending how the evening goes. I'm trying to pull the 1jz out of my soarer this weekend but our Christmas party is fucking up my plans.

Almost everything is disconnected, a couple things left then gotta find a engine hoist. Really wish I had a garage for projects like this FML

[xnvy]

I want a honeycomb grill now... :(

If Murray gets an ST, what are you going to do Nick? You're never going to win with him in your class!

[Sugarphreak]

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[Murray Peterson]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
I put up an invite on the Fiesta ST forum as well.... maybe Murray will pop by :D

Can't make it -- sorry. I will probably talk to you seriously next spring about a co-drive autox session (Jo and I will pay for the privilege).

[Murray Peterson]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


A yellow S2000

He was in this thread earlier though because he is thinking about a Fiesta ST

It's a red one now; the yellow one was totalled at an autox event in Victoria some years ago :(

[Murray Peterson]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


How do you know? ;)

That's the attitude! Driving skills are obtainable through practise; there is no reason why you can't surpass me (many have).

[Sugarphreak]

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[Shlade]

Can't make it tonight something came up

[xnvy]

Don't tell me I came here for no reason...

[Sugarphreak]

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[xnvy]

I still have no clue what he was trying to do :rofl:

[xnvy]

Me and a bruh just chilling.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7541/15229345973_185da69daf_b.jpg

[Sugarphreak]

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[Shlade]

Ya I took all the badging off my car except the front ST badge

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
I think I am going to de-badge my car completely

I was removing the dealer sticker yesterday and I gave the Fiesta tag a pull just to see how well it was attached and it pretty much just peeled right off with no effort and no mess.

I was pondering taking off the ST badges as well... I'd rather have average people on the road think I drive a normal Fiesta instead of an ST so it doesn't attract unwanted attention.

Plus weight savings I guess :rofl:

What did you use to take the dealer sticker off? I want to remove mine but always concerned ill fuck the paint haha

[eglove]

Razor blade and peel away. Rub residue off with goo gone, or invisible glass

[Shlade]

Just peals off. Nothing to it really maybe use some goo gone if you need to

And Christ don't use a razor blade.... Just use some dental floss on the badges and fish your way through it. The sticker should just he able to peal off

[eglove]

Razor blade is fine unless you're a knob.

[Shlade]

Don't make me smack the shit out of you lol

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Anyone winter driving their FiST? Twice yesterday and once today I start the car and went to go inside only to find the car had stalled when I came back out. Today I even left the key fob in the cup holder and it did the same thing.

This is when cold starting after sitting all night. Doesn't seem to do it when it's warmed up at all.

[xnvy]

Can't speak to the FiST or my Fiesta but I know that's an issue with the 500 Abarths as well due to the little turbo and valve action.

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Wow that sucks, leave it to warm up only to find it stalls!

Mine is sealed away in my garage until things warm up, so no experience.

My guess is the intercooler is too large for our climate, how hard would it be wrap it up or block it off for the winter? You would also block off the radiator with some cardboard, I see most Ford trucks running around like that.

Don't see why it would be anything related to the intercooler/rad as that would just make it warm up slower. The car starts, idles and after ~ 30 seconds to a minute it stalled.

Maybe the alternator or something with the auto climate control kicks in and causes a higher engine load? I know the FR-S would dip and almost stall sometimes when the A/C kicked in until they reflashed it.

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak


Just thinking that chilled air coming out of the intercooler on a day like today is more dense and causing the engine to either starve or flood depending on how the electronics are reacting with fuel delivery

Could be. These cars use a MAP rather than a MAF so maybe its not calculating the airflow rate right or something.

I'm due for my first oil change in a week or two so I'll attempt to get them to look at it but assuming they won't be able to do a thing.

Also need to get my horn fixed, hasn't worked since day 1, found that out after some idiot almost lane changed into me and pushed me into the center meridian.

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Maybe just a loose clip to the horns in the front?


So when I was picking up my FiST, Ford told me I had to bring my car in for an oil change in May... I told them it would be stored and I would likely have less than 100km's on it, but they said that the oil MUST be changed every 6 months or it voids my warranty.

This sounds like BS to me


Plus my experience with new cars has been that the first oil change shouldn't be done until the mileage requirement is reached so that all of the factory detergents and additives have a chance to work through the new engine.

Actually if you read the owners manual its always X kms / 6 months. The oil degrades over time. Always a good idea to do a oil change after a car has been sitting for quite a while. Not sure how it works on a brand new car but all my other ones it was always do a oil change the first drive of the spring.

It's probably something simple with the horn but I bought a new car for the warranty so they can fix it. It's not stopping me from driving atm so it can wait.

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
If it is just a loose clip you can reach easily, I'd say if it is worth it to plug it back in yourself... aside from the inconvenience of booking and attending an appointment, the last thing you want is a bunch of 17 year old kids getting behind the wheel to "test drive" your horn. Then again I've become bitter and distrustful of dealership service departments, lol.


I was checking out some posts on Bob Is The Oil Guy, sounds like most people change the oil in their cars/boats in the fall so they have fresh oil during the storage period, then run them without changing the oil in the spring. I am going to go with this, I don't believe that oil will degrade that quickly. Cars that arrive on the lot can sit there for 6 months or more, I somehow doubt they change the oil in them.

Yeah I agree. I did take a quick glance a couple times and didn't see anything that was obviously undone. I can hear the relay under the glove box fire when I push the horn. So its something between power, fuse, relay, horn, ground.

Unfortunately with a lack of garage I'm not gonna spend much time focusing on it in this weather

[Sugarphreak]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
^^ I have a decent garage setup if you want to bring it by to have a look. I bet it is just something small

Where abouts are you in Calgary?

[Sugarphreak]

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[Tuxedo_Fiesta]

Hello to all on here! Glad to see that there are at least a few ST owners that are connecting here. Sucks I'm just now getting on here with the snow flying. But, if there are any other brave souls that want to meet up over the snowy months, my beasty is full winter ready, so I'm down!

[Sugarphreak]

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[xnvy]

I'll go to meets in winter :burnout:

[RedApe]

Originally posted by xnvy
I'll go to meets in winter :burnout:

I'm an all weather as well...hence going AWD. :) I'd be in.

[xnvy]

Got stuck 3 times today in Banff in the Fiesta. Even with the winters, ride height was too low for all the snow they had. Stalled twice trying to get out unfortunately. Does anyone else get the "low oil pressure" warning when stalling? I had it the first time but it immediately went away upon restarting the car. Never came back. Second time, no warning at all. My oil is at max level. Could something be wrong with some pressure sensor or something or is this just normal when you stall it.

[pheoxs]

Originally posted by xnvy
Got stuck 3 times today in Banff in the Fiesta. Even with the winters, ride height was too low for all the snow they had. Stalled twice trying to get out unfortunately. Does anyone else get the "low oil pressure" warning when stalling? I had it the first time but it immediately went away upon restarting the car. Never came back. Second time, no warning at all. My oil is at max level. Could something be wrong with some pressure sensor or something or is this just normal when you stall it.

Probably just related to it stalling as when the engine isn't turning there is no oil being pumped.

[foreverchina]

I took my FoST out to Banff last Friday when we had that huge blizzard and it did great with blizzacks lm-32. It was really REALLY sketchy and I never got stuck but I mean I only almost died twice lol

[Sugarphreak]

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[Tuxedo_Fiesta]

Originally posted by xnvy
I'll go to meets in winter :burnout:

Yay!! I actually find the FiST a real hoot in the winter, if a bit rough on the ice ruts!

Thanks Sugarphreak for the welcome. Moral support is always handy :) lol

[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
^^ My Fit used to be the same way, even with winter tires. It was just too light to be competent when the weather went to shit


Anybody want to trade some standard FiST lugs for lock nuts? I just noticed the dealer put them on the car even though I scratched them off the options. I park indoors and they just get in my way, but if somebody is parking outdoors it might add another level of deterring thieves.

I will if you want, not really concerned about my tires getting stolen but if you want a normal set I'll swap.

I have a decent looking second non locking set with my winters anyways so probably wouldn't use them anyways.

Also I meant to try and find time to meet up with yeah this week but work went to shit. Basically just treading water to survive until I'm on holidays next weekend

[xnvy]

Fiesta passed the moose test. Also, deer are assholes.

[Skidro]

When should the first oil change be done on the fist? I am at 1300 and I want to change the oil from motorcraft to liqui moly.

[pheoxs]

I did mine at 8k but mainly because they made me a really awesome deal for the maintenance package so its all covered until 100k kms.

[Sugarphreak]

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[natty54]

Looks like the RS has been confirmed for sale world wide!

[Mibz]

I'm going to create an RS sub-forum for everybody to look down on you plebs.

[pheoxs]

FiST is going back to the dealer a second time to get fixed tomorrow. First my horn wasnt working, apparently it was just a blown fuse (which is interesting because a) I checked the fuses and b) fuses don't usually blow for no reason).

Now I started my car at lunch and the heater fan/blower won't kick in. Not only does this mean its cold as balls but I can't drive without fogging up the windshield unless I crack a window and further freeze.

Not impressed so far.

[Cos]

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[pheoxs]

Originally posted by Cos
^^ I've found with my truck that if you have it set to Auto, sometimes you have to turn it on and off again to start working. Don't know what that is about.

Yeah I tried everything. Hit off, hit auto, turned it to low manually, turned it to high, turned the AC on, turned Defrost on, restarted the car, did it all over again, basically every combination I could find.

Edit: Though it wouldn't surprise me if tomorrow I go start the car to take it in and it works perfectly fine. That seems to be my luck as of late.

[pheoxs]

Apparently I'm not the only one and this is actually a semi-ish common problem for these cars.

http://fiestast.net/threads/heater-blower-malfunction.494/

[Cos]

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[Sorath]

Just picked mine up tonight :)

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa67/kfarm-/Mobile%20Uploads/image-1.jpg (http://s201.photobucket.com/user/kfarm-/media/Mobile%20Uploads/image-1.jpg.html)

[Shlade]

Nice! Doing anything to it or keeping it stock?

[Nismorphed]

What are your guys preferred dealer service shop in calgary?

[pheoxs]

Mine is Cam Clark in Airdrie (mostly because I live there, I've never been to any other dealers in Calgary as I just moved here a year ago)

For the most part they all seem friendly thus far.

[riander5]

Originally posted by Cos


Well and the fact that ST, SVT, RS, and Ford Performance are being combined next year, the whole sub-thread title is kind of screwed.

So the subsection should be re-named to 'Ford Performance Owners Club' or something.

http://www.themustangnews.com/content/2014/12/svt-st-ford-racing-become-ford-performance/

Or the 'ford focus and fiesta de-badging and grille discussion'

hehe :burnout:

[Sorath]

Originally posted by Shlade
Nice! Doing anything to it or keeping it stock?

Nope she's a daily. I'll mod my Evo if I get the mod bug :)

[Sugarphreak]

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[Vexorg]

Hello everyone,

I'm just about to take delivery of my FiST and I'm getting really excited! Been a long wait since I ordered it! Not sure I'll be able to drive it home with the stock tires it comes with. Anyone recommend a tire shop in the south end, maybe i shawaness area?

-Darren

[Ukyo8]

Originally posted by Vexorg
Hello everyone,

I'm just about to take delivery of my FiST and I'm getting really excited! Been a long wait since I ordered it! Not sure I'll be able to drive it home with the stock tires it comes with. Anyone recommend a tire shop in the south end, maybe i shawaness area?

-Darren

You'd be fine driving it in todays weather

[Sugarphreak]

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[Vexorg]

I was thinking of maybe trying to drive it as is unless it snows... Fingers crossed that winter will be over soon.

[Shlade]

You'll be fine to drive it home. Not like the roads are bad. Even if it's -15 and there's no slow you'll have no problems

[03ozwhip]

^you're getting rid of yours already, why is that? Not that I'm surprised lol

[Shlade]

Nah I'm keeping it just posted it to see if there was any interest. There wasn't lol

[Nismorphed]

What kinda pricing did you guys get on your focus st's

[Shlade]

I got mine for 35k all in at 0% financing.

[eglove]

^ Same but 3.99% for me (bought it when it first came out)

[natty54]

I saw this posted on rfd:

I purchased a 2014 FiST with sunroof and nav (no RADO wheel package) last September for $25,600 out the door. The car was purchased in Ontario during Ford employee pricing event.

[Nismorphed]

So 35 all in for st3 package

[Shlade]

There's really only 1 package that you can get here in Canada. You can choose to not get nav and sunroof but that about it. Probably pay a little less

[heavyD]

Originally posted by Nismorphed
So 35 all in for st3 package

You can do better than that. I paid less than $35 all in for 2015 ST3 with sunroof ($1200), Navigation ($800) as well as the new for 2015 optional 18" wheels and red brake calipers ($600). Only option I didn't get was the paint adder for the Tangerine Scream. I got all that for $34,500 with 0% financing for 36 months. Not bad but I think I could have got it for $34k if I bargained harder.

[Nismorphed]

I'm going to check the 2015 at the auto show and look at ordering one it will prob be a little more than the 14 as it has more options

[Shlade]

There's no more options in the 15 than there is in my 14

[heavyD]

Originally posted by Shlade
There's no more options in the 15 than there is in my 14

Well there is the optional 18" wheels and red brake calipers which is all new for 2015. It's a $600 option. There are plenty of pics as focusst.org of 2015's with them.

[Sorath]

Originally posted by heavyD


Well there is the optional 18" wheels and red brake calipers which is all new for 2015. It's a $600 option. There are plenty of pics as focusst.org of 2015's with them.

I have that on my 14

[Nismorphed]

You have the 2015 wheels?

[heavyD]

Originally posted by Sorath


I have that on my 14

We aren't talking about the darker colored wheel option. For 2015 it's a completely different wheel style option. It's a 5-spoke wheel with machined finish. I have dealer specifications for both years and don't see it as an available option for the 2014 model. 2015 also gets refreshed exterior and interior with heated steering wheel. Otherwise the only other changes are revised front shocks and steering tweaks.

[Aleks]

Originally posted by heavyD


You can do better than that. I paid less than $35 all in for 2015 ST3

http://studymarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1399360616124.jpg

Congrats! I thought you were thinking Golf R, Focus RS, house renos :rofl:

I have to say the 15 ST looks way better, imo, than RS styling wise.

[Sugarphreak]

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[heavyD]

Originally posted by Aleks


http://studymarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1399360616124.jpg

Congrats! I thought you were thinking Golf R, Focus RS, house renos :rofl:

I have to say the 15 ST looks way better, imo, than RS styling wise.

We just dropped over $60k on home renovations and I was talking with Ryan about either a GTI with PP or Golf R but I figured I would use this car to pay our 2.5% HELOC with the Ford 0% financing for 36 months as I'm going to pay $1k monthly at no interest and drop the $36k cash or so I will sell the STI for on the HELOC dropping it by over a half leaving with less interest to pay. I don't like having money on the HELOC so rather than throw more debt into a car I figured I would just clean things up so I can get something nice in a couple of years.

[heavyD]

Originally posted by Sugarphreak
Welcome to the club HeavyD... you are one of us now!

Congrats on your new ride!

Thanks. Won't have the car until late April or early May. If this car turns out to be a lemon like my 2012 Mustang GT this will be my last Ford LOL.

[eglove]

I've seen you posting on focusst.org and was wondering if you were the same HeavyD haha

[killramos]

Any insight from the ST experts on why the ST designation has never passed over to the mustang?

I figured the EcoBoost mustang would have been an excellent opportunity to expand the branding?

Base
ST ( EB )
GT
GT350
GT350r

:dunno:

[heavyD]

Originally posted by killramos
Any insight from the ST experts on why the ST designation has never passed over to the mustang?

I figured the EcoBoost mustang would have been an excellent opportunity to expand the branding?

Base
ST ( EB )
GT
GT350
GT350r

:dunno:

If they were going to give it any special designation it would have been SVO like the 80's turbo Mustangs.

[Shlade]

ST's always only been a focus option. No reason to add it on to the mustang

[killramos]

Originally posted by Shlade
ST's always only been a focus option. No reason to add it on to the mustang

Its on the fiesta? :dunno:

[Shlade]

Right lol I always forget about that thing... I'd buy one lol

[eglove]

Because the mustang wasn't ever a euro tuned vehicle - the ST designation is a combination of the SVT group of the US and RS group over in Europe. Primarily taken from euro side of tuning

[Tuxedo_Fiesta]

ST owners officially are officially awesome (even though we all already knew this, right?). My proof: While driving on Deerfoot North on Sunday, happened to be passed by a Tangerine Scream FoST. Now, can't let my FiST be upstaged by it's big brother, so I pulled in behind and followed it out past Country Hills Blvd on Deerfoot until I got to my exit (Stoney). Blasted up the inside to get to the exit ramp, and the FoST zoomed up beside me. Looking over to give a friendly wave to a fellow ST owner, and noticed the driver AND passenger are waving like crazed lunatics! So, naturally, I did exactly the same. Made me laugh so hard.

To the owner of that Tangerine Scream FoST, you totally made my day!

:)

Just thought I'd share.

[eglove]

I always wave to FoST and FiST owners 33% of the time I get a wave back :(

[blitz]

Originally posted by eglove
I always wave to FoST and FiST owners 33% of the time I get a wave back :(

That's probably a little bit better ratio than if you just waved at everyone. :rofl:

Mine's officially built (March 2nd build date), just waiting for it to be shipped up from Mexico.