Parts for your 2010 Ford Fiesta-Centre bearing

2010 Ford Fiesta centre-bearing — is it fitted or needed?

Short answer: a centre-bearing isn’t used on the 2010 Ford Fiesta. Technical documentation for the Fiesta Mk7 platform shows a front‑wheel‑drive layout with a transaxle and two front driveshafts (CV halfshafts), so there’s no long propeller shaft to the rear and therefore no carrier/centre bearing to support it. Ford’s service literature for the 2008.5–2017 Fiesta covers Front Drive Halfshafts and CV joints but contains no section for a propeller shaft or centre support bearing. Likewise, Ford OE parts catalogues and common workshop references (e.g., Haynes Fiesta 2008–2017 driveshaft chapters) list no centre/carrier bearing for this model. In driveline engineering texts, a “centre” or “carrier” bearing is specific to multi‑piece prop shafts used on rear‑wheel drive or all‑wheel drive vehicles, not small FWD hatches like Fiesta.

Why isn’t a centre-bearing used here? Because the Fiesta drives the front wheels directly from the transaxle via short CV halfshafts. With no rear differential and no two‑piece prop shaft, there’s nothing running down the middle of the car that would need a centre support. Some Fiesta variants may have a right‑hand intermediate driveshaft with a small support bearing mounted to the engine block