Mk1 Mondeo. Save or scrap?

[warren t claim]

I've been offered an M plate Mondeo 1.6 GLX with six months tax for bridge money. Although the bumpers are intact it'll need new rubbers for the side windows and the paintwork is pretty straight other than some peeling laquer. I think with a few bits and bobs from the scrappy it'll be a straight old car. I know there's not much love for them on here but I'm thinking that it's been yonks since I've seen a good one about and I don't want to see it die. It's only done 90,000 miles and has an immaculate interior.

 

Should I save it?

 

Pics to follow.

[stuboy]

save it

[HillmanImp]

These are looking good these days, probably as they are so rare compared to just a few years ago. They stand out a bit, even though the design has aged well. Who is it that has that lovely silver one that turned up to Chololmondolololoy?

[warren t claim]

This even has it's original Mk3 Fiesta Si wheel trims. Pity she's binned the service history because she was going to scrap it.

[sierraman]

I've had a few mondeos. 1.6 is now rare, I'd keep it!

 

Good car, handling I thought was better than mk3 mondeo. A clutch change is a fucker though. Paid £300 cash to get mine done. It will probably require the inevitable bottom arms, drop links doing from time to time but that's not ardous. Might even have the haynes manual still in loft for cost of postage.

 

Also I'll have a look in loft I'm sure I had a book they brought out when they introduced the Mondeo going on about how Eco friendly and advanced it was.

[Pillock]

Mk1s are dying fast, plus no sense scrapping it if an hour in a scrapyard will fix it up. Decent transport for soneone (Although to be fair, those in need of a large family car on a shoestring budget will likely take it up the arse for five years for a nearly new Zafira)

[sierraman]

My dad had a Zafira, god I hated that car. It was embarrassingly awful, I still see them now and cringe with acute awkwardness about the times he'd drop me off in it.

[bub2006]

I'd have thought the 1.6 would have been a bit lethargic in something like this. Certainly didn't feel nippy in the escort. Either Way round it's a good spec mk1 so needs to be with someone from here

[Ronnie L]

Scrap it. Mk1 Mondeo was a worse car than the Sierra which was a much worse car than the MK5 Cortina. Which was a lovely car. And worth saving any which are still about.

[sierraman]

The 1.8 was a bit odd, to get the best you had to have it between 3500 and 4500rpm - a bit indignified in a family car.

[stuboy]

mk1 register page on Farsebook

[Mr Lobster]

Save it. Mk1 Mondeos were pretty good when new and rare these days. 

[Station]

Save it, pity about sh.

[plasticvandan]

my dads,despite me mourning the fact he replaced an 81 Maxi with it,was,as a tool,fantastic.stupid annual mileage+ no maintainance= 3 years free motoring,until it broke,then it got bridged lol

[KruJoe]

Who is it that has that lovely silver one that turned up to Chololmondolololoy?

 

That was an Si, lovely motor. It was the chap called "Reanimation-Films". A year or two back he put up a desperate thread when the cam belt snapped. I don't know what became of it, hope it was saved.

[Station]

http://autoshite.com/topic/13830-1995-mk1-ford-mondeo-20-si-ebay-tonight-long-mot-hg-gone/page-2

[Pete-M]

Save it. Mondeos were great. It was only the obscene cost of clutch replacement killed most of 'em.

[MarvinsMom]

yes, save it! mk1's are damn thin on the ground now, and that one sounds like a beaut!

 

plus you will then be fiorst in the queue for when the enevitable scene tax hikes take effect.

 

that cannot be that far away now for one of those....

 

me dad had a mark 1 1800, which was a fine old bus, save the back windscrene heater thing not working. though the wiring into the tailgate did smoulder abit if you turned it on!!

[phil_lihp]

Save it!  Not much love?  Great cars, 1.6 probably a bit slow but originality is a big plus and values for most old Fords only go one way.

[dollywobbler]

Save. I think they're great.

[warren t claim]

 

Excuse wanky iPhone pics.

[MarvinsMom]

oh you didnt say that it was in austrailia!!

[TRW]

The GLX model had the best interior out of all the Mk1 Mondeos, especially when it was in that blue effect Ford offered.

[EssDeeWon]

Save it.

 

If they were to make another series of Keeping Up Appearances I reckon Onslow (RIP) would have a rough looking MK1 Mondeo with a rattly exhaust.

[warren t claim]

oh you didnt say that it was in austrailia!!

Sadly I had to turn off mobile version and then upload via iPhone.

[phil_lihp]

Was there a 1.6 GLX?  Seems like an odd combination of high(ish) spec and smallest engine.  Definitely worth saving, very good looking and capable cars and increasingly rare now.

[trigger]

Just to echo almost everyone one else, it's worth saving, they are lovely cars to drive and there's so few of them left now that the banger racers have raced them all.

 

I saw a mint N reg Mk1 Ghia yesterday with all the leather and alloys in B&Q, it still looked modern compared to the rest of the cars in the car park.

[John F]

It's probably worth saving, if only because they are bland that nobody else will bother and you will consequently win Autoshite 2025 with it.

 

I don't know why people keep saying they're nice to drive. About 10 years ago I drove a pogweaselled K-reg. 1.8 from Yorkshire to Inverness and back and I thought it was lardy, soulless and generally hateful, very much like the typical photocopier salesmen that drove them back when they were new. I wouldn't do it again (drive a Mondeo Mk 1, that is... Inverness was OK).

[warren t claim]

IMHO the Mk1 was the last time a mid sized Ford substantially raised the bar for its class upon launch. The Mk3 Cavalier was insipid to drive by comparison and the only car to get near the Mondeo was the Primera.

[Cavcraft]

Save it. The only Mondeo ever worth having was the Mk1, the rest are hateful. There's hardly any about these days either and they look quite smart in a weird way.