price of ford fiesta 1.25 zetec engine for R reg car

Hello,
does anyone know how much I should expect to pay for a 1.25 zetec
engine for an R reg fiesta? My dear little car keeled over, and the
local garage has said they will find and fit an engine for me, but
would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how much is a sensible
price to expect to pay (can't be as much as the proper ford garage
said it would be - £2,500! the car cost less than that 2 years ago!).
The mechanic said fitting it would be £150, which doesn't seem quite
enough to me - any thoughts?
Thanks
aeq

<little_amykins (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,
does anyone know how much I should expect to pay for a 1.25 zetec
engine for an R reg fiesta? My dear little car keeled over, and the
local garage has said they will find and fit an engine for me, but
would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how much is a sensible
price to expect to pay (can't be as much as the proper ford garage
said it would be - £2,500! the car cost less than that 2 years ago!).
The mechanic said fitting it would be £150, which doesn't seem quite
enough to me - any thoughts?




More than the car is worth. Bin it.

In article <1177059552.178808.259010 (AT) d57g2000hsg (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
says...

Hello,
does anyone know how much I should expect to pay for a 1.25 zetec
engine for an R reg fiesta? My dear little car keeled over, and the
local garage has said they will find and fit an engine for me, but
would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how much is a sensible
price to expect to pay (can't be as much as the proper ford garage
said it would be - £2,500! the car cost less than that 2 years ago!).
The mechanic said fitting it would be £150, which doesn't seem quite
enough to me - any thoughts?
Thanks
aeq

£150 for fitting is about right. A price for a recon Zetec can vary a

lot depending on how good a job a firm does. The place I'm getting a
Pinto engine from for the Capri change everything and only the block ,
head and crank are original although re-machined. They charge £995+VAT
for a standard Zetec although I think that's for the 2L ones as they
specialise in performance motors.

--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

On 20 Apr, 11:55, Conor <conor.tur... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

In article <1177059552.178808.259... (AT) d57g2000hsg (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
says...> Hello,
does anyone know how much I should expect to pay for a 1.25 zetec
engine for an R reg fiesta? My dear little car keeled over, and the
local garage has said they will find and fit an engine for me, but
would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how much is a sensible
price to expect to pay (can't be as much as the proper ford garage
said it would be - £2,500! the car cost less than that 2 years ago!).
The mechanic said fitting it would be £150, which doesn't seem quite
enough to me - any thoughts?
Thanks
aeq

£150 for fitting is about right. A price for a recon Zetec can vary a
lot depending on how good a job a firm does. The place I'm getting a
Pinto engine from for the Capri change everything and only the block ,
head and crank are original although re-machined. They charge £995+VAT
for a standard Zetec although I think that's for the 2L ones as they
specialise in performance motors.

--
Conor

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.........

Someone already posted a similar thread a little while ago (try a
search you might find it). Basically the conclusion was that there a
quite a lot of these Mk4 Fiestas out there and it would probably be
cheaper to buy another one. You may even be able to get a "younger"
one for less than it wold cost you to replace the engine in yours.

I part exchanged my S refgFiesta 1.4 Ghia X a year a go but if I'd
have sold it privately it would have struggled to get £1000 as it was
a good runner but had 92k on the clock.

<little_amykins (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

Hello,
does anyone know how much I should expect to pay for a 1.25 zetec
engine for an R reg fiesta? My dear little car keeled over, and the
local garage has said they will find and fit an engine for me, but
would appreciate it if anyone could tell me how much is a sensible
price to expect to pay (can't be as much as the proper ford garage
said it would be - £2,500! the car cost less than that 2 years ago!).
The mechanic said fitting it would be £150, which doesn't seem quite
enough to me - any thoughts?
Thanks
aeq

Last time I did something like that, I tried to find (not getting ripped
off!) another engine and was quoted upwards of £500 from local 'vehicle
dismantlers' Found a complete car for £100, MOT failure in adtrader and
swapped the engine over, then sold the good bits and scrapped the remains.
almost did it for nothing,

Des

"Conor" <conor.turton (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote

£150 for fitting is about right. A price for a recon Zetec can vary a
lot depending on how good a job a firm does. The place I'm getting a
Pinto engine from for the Capri change everything and only the block ,
head and crank are original although re-machined. They charge £995+VAT
for a standard Zetec although I think that's for the 2L ones as they
specialise in performance motors.

Stop pissing about and bung a Zetec in there
You can't polish a turd

--

Tony Bond / UncleFista

www.bradford7.co.uk

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Which suddenly flips, pinning you underneath.
At night the ice-weasels come...