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Originally Posted by mwebb
i had a 1979 or 1978 European ford fiesta , whichever year i had , my parents had one in the other year , with a carb and 1.6 ohv engine , it was a good little car ,
you had to adjust the valves every year ...
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That would be the "Kent" OHV version. Later ones got the slightly modified and cheaper to make "Valencia" OHV engine with non-adjustable valves. Trouble was they would get noisier with age. The noise of an older one has been described as being like a "skeleton w@@king in a biscuit tin".
The only real "Dog" (aka Lemon or just awful) one was the Mk3 which was terrible even in RS-Turbo guise - truly awful chassis and the same Valencia engines with some very dated CVH nastiness and a couple of extra hundred KGs of weight added in. Ford were having a bad time just then though, the similar vintage Escort was equally cr@p.
The Mk4 also formed the basis for this rather nice, if quite rust prone car too.
