For Sale Forge pail: Ford Mondeo £300!

[sierraman]

Have you ever bought a car without dodgy white stains in the middle of the drivers seat? Maybe that's the true cost of a cheap car.....

No but I once bought an interior out of a 2.5 Ghia X Mondeo, I'd stripped the front out and last job was taking the back seats out, underneath was part of the sachet of durex. I'd got that far so I wasn't stopping now, I just knew from that moment it hadn't only been me that had had the joy of the wipe clean leather seat facings.

[Cavcraft]

Crazy bargain reduced price madness offer: £300!

[Bucketeer]

CRAZY BARGAIN REDUCED PRICE MADNESS OFFER

[Cavcraft]

Any offers before I ebay or Gumtree it?

[purplebargeken]

Tempted to buy it, store it until it is ok to insure it under a modern classic policy and stick 2 fingers up at the insurance industry.

[Cavcraft]

I'm very tempted to let you do that. Very.

[purplebargeken]

Haha! There may be something very crazy afoot! Might be

[purplebargeken]

That steering wheel reminds me of the one in the modern Beetle. Cool!

[purplebargeken]

I am almost too scared to ask about the white seat mark. At least it isn't a skidmark, totally the wrong colour unless the owner was eating lots of bones. Oh oh.

[purplebargeken]

How can such modern and good condition cars have such little value. I mean it's almost new. 

 

Hopefully one car less on the bucket list

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Tempted to buy it, store it until it is ok to insure it under a modern classic policy and stick 2 fingers up at the insurance industry.

 

 

It's a fucking Mondeo. They were designed to be uninsured FFS! Just make sure you're 2.5 times over the limit and that you have 3 kids of uncertain parentage in the back seat* when the rozzers pull you over. Make sure you read page 78 of the Ford Mondeo owners manual for this eventuality 'being pulled over by the pigs' for the correct Mondeotalk (cops on cameras version 3).

 

"Aalreet maaaate, 'a woh just on t'wey to t'post office maaate to tax the fukkah"

"Course aaam fukkin ensured maaaate"

"YA FUKKING CUNTS AH WOH JUZ FUKKING GOIN' T'FUKKING POST OFFICE WI' BAIRNS AAAM FUKKING REPORTIN YUZ FOH FUKKING BREACHIN' M' OOOOMAN RIGHTS"

 

 

 

*what's a child seat?

[purplebargeken]

There is not enough gaffer tape in evidence to make this a credible response to any police orientated interventions. 

[purplebargeken]

You have forgotten possibly the most important response. Ahv just bought it maaate. This mornin' like. 

[purplebargeken]

Do these have to have a very specific engine oil? I seem to vaguely remember something about that but it was a long time ago.

[Craig the Princess]

The Princess delivery service available.

[purplebargeken]

Something might be afoot here Craig

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Do these have to have a very specific engine oil? I seem to vaguely remember something about that but it was a long time ago.

 

 

Poundland Exxxon Sonic 10/40 maaate.

[purplebargeken]

Just out of interest, it's a Mk3. Correct? These should be Duratec engined then. I only really know Triumphs.

[Tetleysmooth]

It's a fucking Mondeo. They were designed to be uninsured FFS! Just make sure you're 2.5 times over the limit and that you have 3 kids of uncertain parentage in the back seat* when the rozzers pull you over. Make sure you read page 78 of the Ford Mondeo owners manual for this eventuality 'being pulled over by the pigs' for the correct Mondeotalk (cops on cameras version 3).

 

"Aalreet maaaate, 'a woh just on t'wey to t'post office maaate to tax the fukkah"

"Course aaam fukkin ensured maaaate"

"YA FUKKING CUNTS AH WOH JUZ FUKKING GOIN' T'FUKKING POST OFFICE WI' BAIRNS AAAM FUKKING REPORTIN YUZ FOH FUKKING BREACHIN' M' OOOOMAN RIGHTS"

 

 

 

*what's a child seat?

 

Just make sure you're not smoking when the old bill pull you over.

 

A spliff's ok though.

[purplebargeken]

Oh shit, I have to start smoking? 

 

That's it! The deals off. Can I have used syringes in there instead? Foil too?

[brownnova]

And those really small weighing scales... You need some of them too.

[purplebargeken]

Yeah, plus some baggies. This could be an ace kit to make up and keep in the boot, just in case. It'd be a right laugh*, especially if you keep some baggies of sherbert and tarragon in there too. A very small grinder might be handy for grinding the tarragon, especially if you have pizza or something.

 

Imagine the jollity.

[greengartside]

It's a fucking Mondeo. They were designed to be uninsured FFS! Just make sure you're 2.5 times over the limit and that you have 3 kids of uncertain parentage in the back seat* when the rozzers pull you over. Make sure you read page 78 of the Ford Mondeo owners manual for this eventuality 'being pulled over by the pigs' for the correct Mondeotalk (cops on cameras version 3).

 

"Aalreet maaaate, 'a woh just on t'wey to t'post office maaate to tax the fukkah"

"Course aaam fukkin ensured maaaate"

"YA FUKKING CUNTS AH WOH JUZ FUKKING GOIN' T'FUKKING POST OFFICE WI' BAIRNS AAAM FUKKING REPORTIN YUZ FOH FUKKING BREACHIN' M' OOOOMAN RIGHTS"

 

 

 

*what's a child seat?

I've just laughed out loud at that. Take a bow, Sir.

 

Timeline of a Ford Mondeo usually goes like this:- new to a rep who's driving style is akin to being late for an accident and seeing if he can bounce the needle off the rev counter coming off the roundabout at Weston Favell > sold to middle-aged couple who enjoy bingo and crocheting jumpers for Giles Brandreth and never go further than the end of their nose > sold to a working class family who have a couple of kids but maintain the car and look at it as 'part of the family' > sold to a single mum / low-income family who just about afford to pay their QuickQuid payment off on the minimum every month. Kind of people who find change on them and pay for a dribble of fuel. No maintenance on the car / running bald tyres, coolant all just water, washing up liquid for screenwash / full of dents and scratches and rust wherever you look > scrapyard or banger track. Done.

[Lord Sterling]

I know these are increasingly being driven by RoadWars contestants/dole queue botherers/White lightening swiggers, but they are honestly a good runabout. If the Sterling was truly heading over the bridge, I'd be beating a path to your door.

 

I saw a very clean one today, an LX being driven by fairly normal gentleman. It made me think about this car.

[purplebargeken]

What? Are you saying that I might be normal by driving this car? Bring it on!!!!!!

[purplebargeken]

Chap on ebay is doing the 6000 CD player jobbie for 40 quid delivered and with code. Tempting. 

[Craig the Princess]

Princess delivery service is a go. No pictures as tinypic is refusing to accept the phone's ip address but currently sitting on a CrossCountry 170 at Peterborough.

[Craig the Princess]

God, New Street has improved loads since I was last here about 3 months ago.

[dugong]

for £350 what more do you want?

 

wheels, AND a stereo.

 

just right for The Beatles greatest hits* on autoreverse/permanent loop

 

this place isn't what it was......

I got an XUD and a boom box for £100. I mean, it's shit, but..........

[Slartibartfast]

I had a facelift MK3 Mondy which I bought from two blokes in a shed for an inflated price and which died before I even got it home.

 

Once I got it running after expending £lots on diagnosis and a new fuel pump, I found it to be a most pleasurable beast to chug about in. However my one criticism of it was that the supplied 6000CD playermabob (as pictured in the below photo) was SHOCKING. Just really disappointingly bad.

 

 

Because I'd spent all my money I never bought the facia adapter, and just ended up doing this:

 

 

The difference in power and sound quality, even on the rubbish papier-maché speakers Ford give you, was really very noticeable.