Ford KA's

[Rhyso]

Anyone got any pointers on what to look for?

Linzi has a friend in work who wants me to have a look at one for her so any info on common problems etc would be great

All I know at the moment is its on a 51 plate

Ta 

[Jack3559]

Rusty jacking points and under arches.

[Diamond Hell]

It's a Ford - pox.

[The Mighty Elvi]

Rust around the rear top mounts. Have a look on honestjohn.co.uk for pointers.

[The Mighty Elvi]

Ps. Also the heater bypass valve is known to fail. Telltale sign is no hot air. I picked one up from the stealers for £40. Fiddly job as well as its located under the wiper motors. Also the breather in the fuel filler neck can fail resulting in leaking on hot days with a full tank.  All these happened to my mums KA.

[Rhyso]

Excellent.  Cheers!

[F17BAD]

We got one, was bought brand new

Rust is big on these, sills, fule cap door bottoms due to thin metal and paint thinner than paper (had ours fully resprayed in a cool colour when it was only 1 year old)

also pull back the drivers floor carpet if you can, i mean right to the metal because many cars piss water in due to a manufacture issue where the seal is faulty on the bulkhead, the only way to fix this is dash out job to re seal (me and ben are doing ours soon because it has this problem)

carpets are also really thin.

these cars were not made for huge miles thats for sure.

engine is piss easy to work on, they eat bottom arm bushes tho, cheap and easy fix tho

Handle well, and are a great drive. but not amazing on fuel tho.

hope this helps

[Rhyso]

Thanks

[F17BAD]

ours is a year 2000 model, deffo check the floor carpets mate. ford know about the issue but wont admit to anything

google it and many peopel have had the problem. ours seems to piss water in only when its parked on certain angles !!!  sometimes jetwashing it onlevel ground it wont leak, then it rains and it will...  annoying. we have to park it with all the carpets pulled back and a towel under near where the pedals are. which makes it a pain when u want to use the car.

Me and ben are going to sort the issue in a few weeks time before winter kicks in again (i did buy a custom car cover for it which cost 300 quid)  i also did a complete waxoyl of the complete under side. ours has zero rust but iv really had to look after it

[JC]

I had to go and look at over 10 of these for my eldest daughter ( who knows best, teenager ) before she finally conceeded they are all cr4p