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[PaulFRST]

Can you still buy Escort Cosworth Alloys new from ford?

If so does anyone know how much they would cost?

also, can you buy the centre caps from ford?

[javablu]

Yeah I think you can, I remember a woman saying that she had bought them new. £120 per alloy and £20 per centre cap (I THINK) Des might remember

[PaulFRST]

I've found a set for £160 with no tyres and have a few scuffs, just wondering if it would be cheaper to refurb them or just buy a new set from fords?

[AdrianFRST]

Mondeo ones are £125 each. The Escort Cossie ones were £270+vat each about 4 years ago, so probably a bit more now.

[RS_Rawli]

120 is very cheap, get em snapped up

[PaulFRST]

Mondeo ones are £125 each. The Escort Cossie ones were £270+vat each about 4 years ago, so probably a bit more now.

Ok then.......refurb it is then ...... some goodies on the way for the engine too ade.....

[Paul R]

http://www.fordpartsuk.com/Merchant2/me ... ry_Code=AW
Set of 4 Includes vat and delivery

You do know these wheels are jinxed for the Fiesta???

[MikeBuzz]

jinxed???

[PaulFRST]

You do know these wheels are jinxed for the Fiesta???

Thanx for the link mate

As for the curse........i don't believe it and i'm gonna prove it wrong

[MikeBuzz]

will 8inch wide fit a fiesta

or would these be a bit better


http://www.fordpartsuk.com/Merchant2/me ... ry_Code=AW

[javablu]

I swear it was in the £100 mark per wheel. Des will probably remember.

[Paul R]

You do know these wheels are jinxed for the Fiesta???

Thanx for the link mate

As for the curse........i don't believe it and i'm gonna prove it wrong

I hope your right

[MikeBuzz]

what is this curse??

[PaulFRST]

will 8inch wide fit a fiesta

or would these be a bit better

just about

[MikeBuzz]

i was just looking at the 6.5 wide ones would these fit nice in the arch?

[PaulFRST]

i was just looking at the 6.5 wide ones would these fit nice in the arch?

Yes mate

[Paul R]

Rears aren't the problem, its the fronts that are hard to get looking right, do you run Coilovers on the front?

[MikeBuzz]

might have to get the 6.5's dont fancy trying to get the 8's on, looks like would cost a bit for the coilovers and stuff, or would i need coilovers with teh 6.5 too

[PaulFRST]

Rears aren't the problem, its the fronts that are hard to get looking right, do you run Coilovers on the front?

No mate, not yet, but some avo's will be on order soon

[Paul R]

what is this curse??

Ade is probably the best to explain as he has a good memory of names of Fiesta owners
Me personally I would like to do something different and more hardcore like these rare beauties:- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1
Although they are common as muck compared to the rims I've got for my Series 1

[PaulFRST]

what is this curse??

Ade is probably the best to explain as he has a good memory of names of Fiesta owners
Me personally I would like to do something different and more hardcore like these rare beauties:- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... %3AIT&rd=1
Although they are common as muck compared to the rims I've got for my Series 1

toyed with the idea of these, liked the white ones you had on your fezz, but feel they were too rally...ish for the style i'm going for

[Paul R]

Fair do's I'm not going for the rally look on the series 1, I think i'd get strung up for it by the RSOC

[PaulFRST]

The cossie curse

It's the curse for sure.

Rav - car crashed and written off...
Jags - car crashed and written off...
Stephen Ferguson - string of mechanical problems...
IanFRST - bottom end, blown turbo, alternator and more...
SYRSMAD - car written off twice...
Paul RS1800 - car written off...
JJ - crashed, front end damage...
Black FRST from Crewe - stolen...
Paul R - fitted them to the back, crashed into, exhaust came off...

Ask Stephen what happened as soon as he sold the wheels to Ian - the car ran fine, no probs at all...

I'm not in the least bit superstituous, but I'm having trouble coming up with a rational explanation for this phenomenon.

[Paul R]

Paul R - fitted them to the back, crashed into, exhaust came off...

My Fiesta was never crashed into or exhaust fall off Ade explain yourself
I had them on the back for only a short while while I tried to get the front ones to look half decent with a 60mm drop and I failed so sold them on..

The only bad experiance I had in the Fiesta was coming off the track at brunters and almost rolling the car in the muddy field.. As quick that car was it didn't handle
Franco was in the car.. we laugh about it now but at the time it was quite hairy

[PaulFRST]

can people post up any pics of a fiesta with cossie rims on please, as many as possible

[Rusey]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll? ... 72013&rd=1

[Ian C70T5]

[MarkRS2K]

that looks well nice

[PaulFRST]

Thanx ian, they looked awesome on your car.....you don't really believe in the curse....do you?

[Max M4X WW]

I personally think they look better with the XR bumpers. Which is appropriate. Also on white cars like the one ade posted the other day and also the one in the max power haynes! Which might be the same one as ade posted

[acrebo]

Even better IMO:

http://www.fordpartsuk.com/Merchant2/me ... ry_Code=AW

[Max M4X WW]

Dunno, Prefer the smoother spoked ones on Fiesta's really. Unless they are totally standard looking FRST's etc

[RS_Rawli]

yep 7 spokes, last set avaialbe that is

can join every1 else with with the last set

[PaulFRST]

Found this story while the using the ft search engine, llama when i read it so thought i put it on this post so you too can laugh your ass off.



Don't laugh or giggle, the Cossie Curse is not a myth.

Gather round, my children. Let me tell you a story [stokes fire, lights up pipe]...

T'was the 14th of April, 1995 when Phil McCavity set off for work. It was a dull, wet morning as he pulled up outside Ben Dover's house - a friend and fellow workmate.

Both men worked at the local Ford plant, building Escort Cosworths for the hungry British public. Unfortunately, the famous Cossie was at the end of its production life and both Ben Dover and Phil McCavity knew this. They both knew that soon they would be made redundant, and that their days as Ford mechanics were numbered.

On the way to the plant, Ben came up with an interesting idea. "I know, why don't we fit Cossie wheels to a Fiesta, and make a Fiesta Cosworth?" he exclaimed excitedly.

Phil agreed, and that night they both started work on a scale model, to show the suits at Ford and to hopefully save their jobs. After all, a Fiesta Cosworth would surely be as popular as the legendary Escort before it!

Both men worked hard for three weeks to complete the model. On Thursday the 12th of May, they were ready to show it to Ford. On Thursday evening, the two men, who had been made redundant the day before made a pact - they would stick together no matter what, and remain friends forever.

The model was being stored at Phil McCavity's house. Over night, he began thinking. "I'd have more chance of getting a new job at Ford if they thought I'd made the Fiesta all by myself...wouldn't I?"

As a storm raged outside, he expanded on his idea, and decided to go to Ford alone the next morning.

Phil got up at 6am and hurried out of the house with the Fiesta Cosworth model under his arm. He did not go to pick up Ben Dover, but went straight to Ford, where he presented the model.

Ford bosses were very impressed with this new model, which was subtle but beared the same beautiful deep-dish Cossie wheels as its sister car, the Escort.

After some negotiating, Phil was offered a new contract at Ford, as a production engineer, to start the next day. He could barely wait, and forgot all about his best friend, with whom he had made a pact with the previous night...

As he returned home, he found Ben standing at his door, drenched in rain. Dover knew exactly what Phil had done.

"Look, I had to do it - I need a new job!," exclaimed Phil
"You barsteward, It was MY idea, we made a pact!" shouted Ben
"I don't care, I'm rich now, so bugger off - get off my land"
"Oh you will be sorry, very sorry..." screamed Ben Dover
"What you going to do?"
"From this very day, Friday 13th of May, I put the Cossie Curse on you! Not only on you, but on anyone who drives a Fiesta with Cossie wheels! A plague on you and your family and any other filthy little git who tries to drive a Fiesta Cosworth!!!"

With that, Ben ran off into the misty night screaming.

He was later found hanged by his socks in his garage.

Phil thought no more of this, and within two months, Ford presented him with a working prototype of the Fiesta Cosworth. Driving home, Phil tried to apply the brakes when entering a corner, but found the pedal was useless. Panicking slightly, he tried the handbrake but it came loose in his hands. He hit the corner at 60mph, rolling the car and tragically killing himself.

Police found that someone or somethinghad cut his handbrake and brake cables - but no one had access to the car prior to Phil...

Ford immediately discontinued work on the Fiesta Cosworth. They did not need bad publicity - they could not explain the brake fault, so how could they make sure it happened again?

The Fiesta Mk4 began production soon afterwards...

And to this day, if anyone tries to put Cossie wheels on a Fiesta, the Cossie Curse returns to get them! Be warned, Ben Dover was a spiteful man and the Curse will not rest!

[PaulFRST]

found out that they are £125 each from fords, so brand new ones it is, I wonder if they are brand new and never touched a cosworth it means that they are curse free?

Paul