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Mondeo FD52CXG R.I.P


Felly Magic

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Well, I collected the Mondeo this morning, drives spot on, no advisories on the MOT, and even had 1/4 tank of petrol in. Aircon is icy cold, it's very comfy, and is an effortless cruiser. I personally think it was worth the £500 paid for a well looked after car, that has been local for quite some time, and has good service history.

 

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Surprised it had powered height adjust on the driver seat. It's better equipped inside than the old Focus, and that was in Ghia flavour. This is the alleged misery spec too. At one point in it's life it went through the Ford Direct scheme, it still has the hologram on the windscreen, and it's showing just 2 former keepers on the logbook 

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Nice one! My mate and his wife had an almost identical car but 12 months older. Always struck me how well built and quiet it was to ride in, really liked it.

 

Sore point: my neighbour scrapped a 2.0 Ghia with genuine 48k miles recently without letting me know first. Gutted. Reason? A broken spring and needed new tyres :( Lovely chap but bugger me, seemed a bit of a waste.

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I know tyres will not be cheap for it, being BFO 16 inch jobs, and when the FiL decides to chop in his early mk3 Zetec, I might cheekily enquire about the alloys. He took us to pick it up, he gave it the nod of approval, as with perfect timing, the Favorit's alternator died last night, that can wait now the Mondeo's here. And yes some people do scrap cars for daft reasons. Springs seem to be a weakness on any car these days, no doubt down to a combination of shitty roads and bloody speed bumps everywhere

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Driver's mat has a small wear hole in, but meh. Rear seat looks hardly used. Might get the Eastern European car wash lads at the yard we share at work to give it the works, they give us a good discount on the price too. Going to replace the broken wheel trim with a genuine Ford replacement from evilbay. It did fail it's MOT this year on 3 things, a blown numberplate bulb, and handbrake had little effort & long travel, someone probably got a 20p stuck in it LOL.

 

It's got plenty of oomph for what I need, boot it, and it goes. And yes Mr Peel, this is the basic Mondeo mk3, nothing is clockwork, and there is even a button on the key to open the boot,an it's got umpteen airbags as standard, I bet if they all went off, it would be like a bouncy castle inside

 

And the spare wheel is not a bloody donut either, proper full size that looks brand new. 

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Just given the interior a quick clean up & vac, and there was only a flippin touch up kit in the glovebox, a genuine Ford one too, Neptune Green, and the recent wiper blades are genuine Ford! All barring it's first and last service were done by John Grose Ford in Ipswich as well. This, and it's low miles point to giffer previous owner. Spare is a brand new Michelin Pilot, wheel looks like brand new. Found a small patch of water in the boot, looks like a tail lamp is letting in a bit of moisture, next time we are in Clacton at the inlaws, will strip the lights out, and apply some decent mastic, but that is it's only flaw, sod all really

 

The place I bought it from have only just started selling cars as a sideline business, and are a bit wet behind the ears when it comes to selling, the advert headline just had the reg number, and the advert it's self was very basic, which is why I suspect the car had zero interest. Oh well, and yes sometimes it pays to be picky

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I do hope so Billy, not had much luck with cars recently, seems huge compared with the Favorit, which is in the naughty corner til I can be bothered getting the alternator rebuilt by Nacton Auto Electrics. Radio had presets for Classic, BBC Suffolk, Radio 2,3 &4 & local Town 102, so this also points to an elder owner. Radio code present and correct too, so happy days

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These are great, I had a TDDi one which I still regret selling......I have intermittent lower back pain and unfortunately couldn't get on with the seats, they left me in stony :(

 

only issue I had with mine was the handbrake mechanisms in the rear caliper seizing which seems a common fault. Expect to need rear calipers at some point especially if your handbrake starts becoming less effective.

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Yeah that looks like a nice bargain, I think it ticked every single box you mentioned in that thread (between the incredibly helpful suggestions of course! :-D ).

 

I got my 130hp TDCi Mondeo (in Ghia spec) from a dealer. I paid £2,000 + a Rover 45 diesel for it (£500 dontcha know - damn near broke his hand off agreeing to that shit).

 

It was in marvellous condition, and had a rocket-ship mileage but a five page print-out of service history and work done during its time as a Travis Perkins pool car.

 

I absolutely loved it to bits. Comfortable, quiet, OMGTORQUE, and I got 62mpg on a behaved 70 mile jaunt up north.

 

Unfortunately it TDCi'ed itself - I wasn't really doing enough miles for any modern diesel (20 per day max) and the turbo ended up lunching itself.

 

Sold it for £700 to someone with access to military grade (literally) mekanikal ekwipment, and at the last MOT it had a further 27,000 miles on it :shock: .

 

 

 

...and thus continues the theme of me being able to tell a related (if terminally dull) story about one of my past cars in virtually any collection thread out there. BA-ZING.

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16" tyres are the new 15", even 'small' cars have 16" wheels now.

 

Did someone say this is a misery spec one? It seems pretty well equipped to me.

 

Yeah, I did.

I'm sure it will be a fine tool, and has most things we have come to expect, but in comparison to the facelift Ghia X I had a couple of years back, these don't have much spec,

 

This is my mates identical car http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2003-Ex-Demo-Ford-Mondeo-Ghia-X-2-0-TDCI-Estate-Massive-Spec-but-using-water-97k-/231886675149?hash=item35fd85dccd:g:aLsAAOSwr7ZW8ZUN

 

It is a bit poorly atm, but they were a really pleasant place to be.

 

Good luck with it, Felly.

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