For Sale Ford Puma for Sale

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Hello all,

 

I am selling my Ford Puma.

 

I wanted to avoid the usual EBay bollocks, so thought I would post it on here.

 

A few details:

 

1.4

 

1999/T

 

Red.

 

Original rotor alloy wheels.

 

I am the second owner.

 

75000 miles.

 

It had a new engine at around 68000 miles due to a oil starvation issue which knocked out the big ends. I got the engine from a Ford breaker and it was guaranteed to be under 70000 miles.

 

MOT until June 2015.

 

Lower tax band.

 

Body is in good condition, slight grot around the rear passenger wheel arch - nothing terminal.

 

Interior is also good, although the interior light does not come on when you open the passenger door. I the windscreen interior trim off to investigate (no luck) and now cannot get that trim back on properly.

 

Indicator stalk sticks on high beam now and then, could do with a new one but I just got used to it.

 

Pre-scene tax. Pretty sure these are now bottoming out price-wise.

 

Tyres all OK.

 

Central locking.

 

Electric windows.

 

Only have one key. The previous owner had lost the remote fob.

 

Starts first time and it has recently been on trips from Essex to Newcastle, North Yorkshire and makes weekly runs to Aston Martin in Gaydon for my job.

I would rely on it for any journey.

 

It's nippy, but not fast and handles wonderfully. Sits at 75-80 on the motorway with no problems.

 

In summary, it's a decent, reliable and fun little thing but I now need something more practical what with the children and the higher mileage my new job needs.

 

£500.

 

Car is in Saffron Walden, Essex.

 

When the rain bloody stops I will clean it and post some pictures.

 

DM me if interested.

 

 

Ta.

 

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[fairkens]

i loved my 1.7 one of these, rot got it in the end just ended up chasing it around the car

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They are certainly a hoot. I love mine, just not practical enough.

 

I will get another in ten years when they cost a fortune!

[beko1987]

I miss my 1.7 sometimes, for such a gay looking car it wasn't half fun! Even with a fucked clutch one could take the piss out of various chavmobiles

 

They make ka's look good in the rust department though!

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Bumped for pics

[catsinthewelder]

That's a great looking car, the OSF tax will be strong soon.

[CortinaDave]

I'm always surprised how cheap these are. Oh for a barn to stuff full of them for the next decade. Probably a better return than money in the bank.

 

I do wonder if the OSF thing will carry into the newer stuff though. - Ford don't have the market command they used to, and their newer chod doesn't seem to inspire the passion amongst the yoof currently that we had for the XR2 Etc back in the 90s

[phil_lihp]

Looks rather nice, I do like these, a friend had a 1.7 a few years back, chipped and tuned, it went like stink.  Rust has finished off an awful lot of them now so some rarity value will start creeping in soon I suspect.  Ford got these absolutely right and were clever in stopping it while it was still popular and fairly fresh, instead of revising/updating it and letting it drop behind as the underpinnings aged.  

 

Incidentally, interior light issue will almost certainly be the door switch, proof would be if the lights-on warning doesn't work either when the door's opened.  Typical Mk4/5 Fiesta issue, I think the contacts wear/get dirt in them, new ones are probably a cheap enough ebay purchase.

[purplebargeken]

I was tempted to buy my mate's wife's Puma as it was the 1.7. Then Mrs. PBK saw it and declared it a girls car. Sigh. 

[CortinaDave]

Apparently they couldn't actually build enough of these at the time and there was always a waiting list. It was still selling strongly in 2002 but they had to end production as the fiesta style it was based on was being phased out and it couldn't be kept in production on its own without the supply of fezzer dashboards and parts etc

[Doctormop]

I think sales of pumas more or less doubled overnight when Top Gear, in the days of Jezza, Quentin 'genuine mileage' Wilson and Tiff Needell voted it favourite car of 1998 or thereabouts.

[M'coli]

I remember that, it had Tiffany Dell ragging it around with Clarkson and another guy, probably Quentin Wilsannoying, in the car with him.

Tiff had it sideways: "Need another gear!"

Clarkson, with sounds of pure disbelief, "In the middle of a slide like that? !" Tiffany was an F1 driver, after all - could this have been the germ of the idea that became The Stig?

[stuboy]

mate has 1.7 drives like a go cart goes like stink