Faults:

I've had the car about a month, and I must say, with the miles on the car, it runs awesome. I paid 200 bucks for it, and I got my money worth from it already.

General Comments:

I recommend this car to anyone looking for a good old beater. They are great on gas, and seem to run forever. Don't get into an accident though, they are small cars. But it does weigh as much as my 1991 Buick Century, and if you know Centurys, they are big cars. So this little Escort must have something to give in an accident.

Faults:

This car has been fairly reliable for me, the only thing I've had a problem with is that I have lost compression in cylinders 1 and 3.

Fluid from the cooling system somehow got in the oil and froze in the winter, this caused the valve cover gasket to blow. This was pretty easy to fix, the valve cover is easy to get at.

The only other thing is that the clutch, which is cable operated, is getting loose.

General Comments:

This car is pretty slow to get up to speed. 0-60 in 9.5 seconds, because of the lost compression.

Faults:

The rear springs and shocks went out on it, but that was after 300000kms so not bad.

The clutch went out on it at 330000.

Windows in door are loose and tend to break if you slam the door too hard.

General Comments:

Engine is still going strong.

A great car on gas, the best I got was 50 mpg and it only has a 4 speed in it.

Decent power, top speed of about 170 km/h and not bad acceleration.

Faults:

Electric cooling fan switch failed.

Brake line stuck, causing shoe to wear out, which tore up the rotor-replaced brake line, shoes, and rotor.

Repacked rear wheel bearings.

Engine started to buck and make loud bangs when under hard acceleration.

While highway driving, the engine would stall, then return to normal.

Car would shimmy bad while driving over 50mph, probably ball joints.

Engine would not start, left me stranded, had it towed to my house, where the engine started up, but then quickly shut off again. never happened again.

Upon accelerating, engine would hesiitate.

General Comments:

I will not buy any ford product ever again.

These cars were not built to last, my Pontiac has over 235,000 miles and still drives flawless.

Ford was sued because the ignition control modules would fail, leaving people stranded, but when I went to get mine replaced, free of charge, I was told ford was only doing a survey to see how many people bought new modules. these cars were,(notice i used the word were because they're all in the junkyard) terrible on gas, un-reliable, costly to repair, ugly, slow, underpowered, and proudly carry a blue oval.