1991 Fiesta 1.1 popular plus.

I love what you are doing to this little gem. Paint seems to be responding well 👍

Leading up to Christmas 2019 I made a couple of more purchases ready to fit to the car.

First up was a set of mud flaps for the front of the car. These I remember buying for my old grey fiesta back in 2000. The rear had a set already fitted from new. Unfortunately they were pass their best and was up for renewal.









Next up was a set of “lock stops” for the steering rack. When I fitted the RS alloys, it went for it’s first Mot with me. One of the advisories was slight damage to the front wheels. These were caused by the track rod ends catching the alloys on full lock. Plus you can hear the grinding while on full lock. So I avoided using full lock unless necessary. I know there was a solution and it was in the RS accessories catalogue.



Steering limiter kit. The 90 section of the part number would suggest that it is motorsport part as opposed to normal part. And a 89 would normally mean a mk3 fiesta part. I would imagine that these would be fitted to Fiesta RS turbo and possibly XR2i.

So what does a steering limiter kit look like.








These were found, via FB marketplace, quite locally. Mind you looking at the instructions, they do look very interesting to fit.

Last modification was to upgrade the main key to Ghia spec. I had the touch section. So one key blank, a battery and a couple of pounds to the local Timspons man,I had a working key with torch. Small , but nice touch.

Great work on this - love the upgrades!

Look forward to it. No upgrades on.mine, still trying to find out how water is getting into the passenger footwell!

Check the heater. My old mk3 did this when I owned it back in 1999. I ended up replacing the heater and ripping out the sound deafening. If not that, check the bottom of the windscreen. BTW all these upgrades are options available from Ford or from a scrapped Ghia.

Thank you and totally get where you are coming from. The wheels were going to be XR2I alloys, until I saw a set of RS alloys close by. I picked them up on the way to purchase the fiesta. The kit. Well when I fitted it, I did think I had just gone over the top. However I am beginning to like the look and it has grown on me. Thankfully considering the cost. But that is for another post. I still was still busy on FB and eBay purchasing more.

Thanks for your advice... I'll find it eventually. I did think of the heater, but assume I would be losing coolant which I'm not. I'll have a closer look at the screen though. Anyway, I'll stop hijacking your thread

The next job was something that I had been planning for a while and was never sure that I had the time to do it. As it could be a time consuming job. When I purchased the scrap ghia, I managed to salvage all of the part to convert to central locking, electric windows and boot popper. This consisted of the following

Complete loom from the fuse box to the boot.
Electric window motors and regulators.
Central looking motors for all for 4 doors.
Motor and wiring connectors for the boot.
Central console with switches and brackets
Plus small consumables from the ghia.

Here is everything laid out in the garage. The console was in the car at the time. Ignore the leaves.



Here is a short explanation of what I did to convert the car. I did it over 3 days during April last year. Took my time and enjoyed the sun.

First removed all the door interior door panels.
Remove the head unit. The speakers are on same loom.
Remove the loom from the doors, head unit, fuse box and offside rear of the car.
Remove the speakers looms from the front doors.
Remove the front window regulators
Removed all the lock from each door.
Remove the loom inside the boot.

I also removed the front door speakers as I was changing them.

So refitting was the reversal of removing!

Not quite

I started on each door. They all had looms that connect at the door pillar. Nice and easy twist connectors.
The front door received replacement locks with central locking motor incorporated, replacement windows regulators with motor incorporated and new speakers fitted with adapters, due to increased size.

The rear doors received just replacement looks with the motors fitted.

The boot lid had the replacement loom, along with the boot popper fitted.

Once this was done I laid out loom down both sides. N/S as far as the rear passenger door. O/S went down to the boot area. Once that was done, the fuse box needed to be connected to the loom. As the car is a lower spec model, the connector is missing. So this was added to the fuse box, and a change of one relay, resulted in the loom connected. Last item was to fit the brackets, ready to fit the centre console. Once done it worked. Well I did blow one fuse at the start, however that was quickly solved.

I didn’t take any pictures, as I just carried on with the task in hand. So here is couple of photos related to the work carried out.


To hide the hole leave over from the window handle, I had theses. They are european side indicator blanks. Alas we can’t really fit them here as the MOT man does get a little upset if I fit them. However they fit nicely in the hole.


Box of parts required 1


Boxes of parts required2


Here is the indicator blanks and centre console fitted.


I found a very useful guide on a website, sadly no longer running. This proved invaluable throughout this section of the project..

Great results on the seats - did you wet vac the covers? 🙂