Used 2014 Ford Fiesta Sedan Consumer Reviews
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Ford tried to out-do Pinto - and NEARLY succeeded.
M. Shirazi, Rochester NY, 07/24/2020
updated 08/11/2023
2014 Ford Fiesta Titanium 4dr Sedan (1.6L 4cyl 5M)
3 of 4 people found this review helpful
I genuinely loved this car when it was new. I bought a 2014 Fiesta Titanium sedan, automatic 6-speed "Powershift" transmission, with six miles on the odometer the summer of 2014. For the first three years, this car ran SPECTACULARLY and was completely trouble-free. I was thrilled to have a car that reflected all the positive reviews. Fortunately, I purchased both the Ford extended warranty and the Ford service contract: these purchases proved wise, six years on. Just after the standard 3-year, 36,000 mile warranty expired, I had my first major transmission issue (complete failure). This repair took a total of five (right - FIVE) attempts to address and involved reprogramming the tran, replacing clutches in the tran, getting a new mother-board for the tran, flashing and re-flashing the motherboard in the tran, new software for the tran, etc. As of this date, I'm actually unsure the problem is truly fixed: I have no faith the car will remain running - so I never leave the city where I live. Somewhere in the time-frame these transmission issues started, I discovered a small amount of water in the trunk. At first, I just dismissed this water as "noise" as it seemed trivial compared to the transmission issue. That dismissal was a foolish move on my part. Eventually, the water volume became sufficient to require a trip to the dealer: one day, loading groceries into the back seat, I noted water dripping into the cabin from the top-right of the rear windshield, trickle along the back of the rear seat, and disappear below... so I popped the trunk. I found a goodly-gallon of water in my all-weather trunk-liner (thank HEAVEN that I purchased that feature). Heading into my third attempt to fix this problem in Summer, 2020, my dealer informed me that, if a welded seam is responsible for the leak, despite the warranty and service contract, I will have to pay. Two prior attempts to fix this leak failed miserably. I finally decided keeping this vehicle was a bad decision - that a car should work properly in the first six years, 45,000 miles if maintained per manufacturer specs & garaged nightly. So, I have purchased another (*NOT* Ford) car. After this experience, I will never, EVER, have a Ford again: my general impression is "Ford Quality" ends at surface paint. #FordQuality #FiestaQuality #FixOrRepairDaily #FordSucks #FordisJunk UPDATE: the 2020 Honda Fit replacing the purchased-new 2014 Ford Fiesta is an utter gem!
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Cap Less Fuel System Fail.
blueclaw, 03/31/2014
2014 Ford Fiesta S 4dr Sedan (1.6L 4cyl 5M)
5 of 10 people found this review helpful
RE: Cap Less Fuel System: Beware -My son had a nozzle at the gas station get stuck in the fill port. The mechanic there had to take the whole thing apart and still could not get the nozzle out! Apparently Ford is aware of this and has a bulletin out. There are certain nozzles you can and can't use. Ridiculous. Had to finally get a pick in there with some twisting got the nozzle out.
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The worst!!!
Mar Gut, 09/20/2021
2014 Ford Fiesta S 4dr Sedan (1.6L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 1 people found this review helpful
if you want to have a lot of problems then go buy one. I bought a new one and it started giving me problems at 5000 miles and till this day. I have it in my garage for a month waiting for a part that is under a warranty and the dealer told me I have to wait months to get it repair, my son went threw hell and back with his too, look up the problem with these cars transmission module. I wish I could give them no star... the worst cars.
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Repairs every 3 months (if lucky)
Jaime Garcia, 07/16/2021
2014 Ford Fiesta SE 4dr Sedan (1.6L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Bought the car back in June 2018 with 46k miles on it. My first car and the biggest pain on my back I've experienced in my short 21 years of life. Looking back I could've done more due diligence on my part but that's besides the point. First issue I encountered was the MyKey setting, the car came with the audio locked at 14 then to add insult to injury the speakers were AWFUL. How do they pop at not even half of the max volume? Couple weeks pass, and window on passenger side won't work with their button (would have to lower it with the controls on the driver side). Fast forward a couple months, the latch on the rear-left passenger door goes bad (recall) while on the highway. Had to drive and hold the door at the same time for 15 minutes (hell of a shoulder workout might I add). The next month the door latch on the driver side went out. After that I had a break and the car worked fine for about a year with regular maintenance, then disaster struck and the constant repairs started. First it was the terminal connector on the positive side. The terminal corroded off for lord knows what reason, and I could not find it anywhere to buy it, not the dealership, autozone or ebay had it, ended up using a terminal similar to it from an older Ford Focus. I'm just going to skip some stuff and get right to the transmission problems, and the problem is... ALL OF IT. 60k miles and TCM failure according to Ford mechanics, luckily it was still covered under the powertrain warranty and it wasn't even that. Turns out the car had a grounding problem, one side of the engine (battery side) was grounded but the other half (alternator side) wasn't so it was frying my starter. After months of dealing with the Ford dealership and for only $250 a latino workshop ended up saving the little car by just jumping the battery negative terminal to the alternator and for the last 2 weeks that I had it before trading it in, it worked fine but I wasn't going to risk it. Luckily my local Toyota dealer paid off the car in full (even got a check back, which was the same amount as my down payment... COOL) and upgraded me to a 2018 Camry SE. 2 months later so far so good, and I already got my eye on the XSE. TL;DR- DON'T BUY A FORD
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I was a Ford man until this
Justin Long , 02/10/2020
2014 Ford Fiesta SE 4dr Sedan (1.6L 4cyl 5M)
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
I bought this car at 33k miles and literally 600 miles past the 60k power train warranty, the head cracks and causes the car to overheat and dies. Leaving me in a situation where I'll likely have to file bankruptcy because the only reason I financed this car was because I don't have the money or time to deal with constant car repairs. The issues my car has were recalled on Europe but no luck for people in the US. Thanks Ford.
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