Mk1 Mondeo. Save or scrap?

[PiperCub]

The diesels are loathsome, completely awful but the petrols are OK. Agree with those that say the style is still pretty fresh for a car that was around in such numbers.

Worth fixing I'd say. Haven't seen a Mk1 round these parts for ages.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

It's worth saving for the number plate alone - ideal if you're called Maurice 672 Diggler.

 

[warren t claim]

Awaiting phone call off the vendor. I can't see this being in the remotest bit acceptable for classic car insurance so it looks like a hefty bill for saving it.

[CreepingJesus]

Definitely save it. Provided the clutch has got some life in it, and it hasn't got galloping rot round the rear suspension, it'll do a turn.

Still miss my old Ghia X, superb car.

[stuboy]

original wheel trims too

[dollywobbler]

M plate, so if it's 20 years old, Peter James might insure it.

[warren t claim]

Only 5 years ago bridging this would of been a no brainer. Funny how times change and I wonder what we'll be debating over saving in the year 2020? Probably the last surviving 2011 Laguna.

[trigger]

Shame it isn't a K plater. I was offered a L reg 1.8 LX saloon in that solid blue colour a few weeks back for £200 but turned it down as i had no use for it, It was saved  though so it wasn't all bad.

[colnerov]

Certainly got some grippy tyres!

[warren t claim]

Ten years ago I saw an early press demo Mondeo go through auction. It had the plate K*FMC so it might of even been a Ford Overland Chalkenge car which put me off a bit because I didn't fancy owning a car that "Blue" Peter Duncan had potentially exposed himself to a 16 year old girl guide in explaining that it was only natural for her to be curious about what he looked like when aroused.

 

I'm getting sued now...

[EssDeeWon]

K plates are a spotters delight! I know of three...

 

Still plenty of L, M, and N platers still knocking about down here, saying that there are still quite a few J and K plate Sierra's doing the rounds.

[danthecapriman]

Another vote for save it.

I used to dislike these for replacing the Sierra, and being FWD but now they've aged and the banger boys have finished a lot of them off I actually quite like the mk1. I take notice when I see one now!

They are good cars and still perfectly capable.

[warren t claim]

Apparently the lady owner used to book it into a local garage every six weeks for a check up!

[AlabamaShrimp]

Same as everyone else said and save it. If there nowt wrong with it and it's cheap why not. As they have said they are getting rare now and will very soon build the scene tax

[HMC]

I say for the modest amount of work that seems to be needed, why not? Id just got into reading car mags around the time of its intro and I remember well how motoring journos were suprised/ impressed.

 

On TV old TG joined in and spent the whole episode bigging up the the Cortina/Sierra/Mondeo

 

edit- here it is

 

[Bren]

Somebody near me has a grey si saloon on an L plate.

 

No doubt mk 1 fans would mess their duds over one of these.

[Cavcraft]

Any test on it and how much do they want?

[Bren]

Its not for sale - and to be fair it is very clean.

[Magnificent Rustbucket]

I say save it. I like Mondeos.

[Cavcraft]

Its not for sale - and to be fair it is very clean.

 

 

I meant Warren, sorry.

[Lacquer Peel]

I remember the launch of the 1993 Mondeo being on the news. Car launches aren't so ground breaking now because they launch a new car every five minutes.

 

Not driven any Mondeo but I'd like to, their suspension (Mk1 and Mk2) seems well planted and pliant from a passenger's point of view. The figures I've found for the Mondeo 1.6 aren't terrible - 110mph top speed, 12.6s to 60.

[Pillock]

Oh yeah, clutch cost. That killed mine, £600 for a garage to do it!

[Bren]

My dad did the clutch on his L reg diesel.

 

On the driveway. On axle stands. On his own.

 

He should have got a victoria cross.

[alfetta]

clutch was what finally killed my cougar.

 

St24 was a nice car, drove almost as well as the 03  Celica I replaced it with

[greengartside]

Dad had a launch day K-plater Ghia, was a demo car for a Ford dealer in Huntingdon. Had it for 8 years but killed it spectacularly after driving it until the temp gauge went over the red and into the black again....I always remember him saying that 'I was gonna chance it home' - lasted about 6 miles before it revved up and seized solid.

[Pete-M]

A friend of mine who kills every car he owns within a few months had an M reg 1.8 Ghia saloon for four years. The thing would not die. It still drove well when it went over the bridge - he'd gone to Manchester for the evening and came back to his car with the ignition barrel hanging out and the door frame bent. As the car was worth £300 and the bits to put it right would have cost him £100 he didn't have it went over the bridge.

 

He replaced it with a 306 HDi 90 estate he despises but that won't die either - despite his best efforts.

 

I like the Mk1 Mondeo. Ok, the interior in poverty spec ones is nasty but a nice spec one is a nice thing to drive. They need to be 2.0 or 2.5 to get me interested though.

[Split_Pin]

As LP says, the last car I recall where its launch was something important in everybody's lives.

 

Definitely a save from me. I always though that these had very handsome dashboards. Fluid and inoffensive.

[Cavcraft]

The V6 ones were shit, everyone (of many) we drove through the auctions and on the road rattled like an oil starved 1.6OHC from a Mk3 Cortina and smoked like a bastard. They weren't even very quick, either.

[AnthonyG]

That silver Si still exists according to DVLA, although it was due an MoT last Friday!

 

Another vote for save. Might be over 20 years old as well, and Footman James do anything over 15 years old on a classic policy, or they claimed to when I checked on that £500 406 coupe last year.

[hairymel]

+1 for the save - mundano it may be but imho they are great daily drivers