1994 Ford Fiesta CTX (New rimzzzz)

Not so long ago I bought a Ford Fiesta CTX. There was a reason. I don't now recall why exactly. It obviously seemed like a good idea at the time.

I think it may be because the Fiesta CTX is Ford's implementation of the CVT transmission which popped up into "popularity" for a while in the early 1990s.



I'd never owned a car with a CVT transmission, and discovered that I could change all that quite easily and cheaply as there was one for sale for like £300 not far from me, albeit with no MOT, but OTOH having fairly low miles and despite looking kinda down at heel it did look like it was a solid enough little thing. And lo! My CVT cherry has been popped.



There were some MOT related things like a loose front wishbone and a couple of trivial things and some advisories and away I was in all the glory of 60BHP and no actual gears. Hooray.

All CTX Fiestas come with the 1.3 HCS engine. Most of them seem to have been Motability cars or something. Mine was certainly a base spec car with no rear wiper, no radio, etc.

Got it home and serviced it properly



Then it was time to look at tidying the appearance up a bit

BREAK OUT THE ELBOW GREASE









But the rear arches were a little scabby, and the sills had been patched (well, its a 1990s Fiesta, right?)

So in a fit of enthusiasm I bought a set of rear arches and a pair of full sills and popped the car over to the man they call Mopar Craig to sort out the work and the paint







The rear valance was a bit gone through as well. Craig fabricated the bits needed here as well as the inner arches







And then a little paint...





And a set of cleaned up original wheel trims and its looking pretty OK now...









So that's where we got since like February with it.