'93 Mondy thread - MOT pass

[Pillock]

Love the early ones with the two tone bumpers.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Fabulous. Could not be a better colour.

 

Citrine.

[egg]

Thanks to Wuvvum for spotting it, and posting it on the ebay tat thread with a couple of hours to go....

[egg]

Is that phone by Fisher Price?

 

Pov spec Nokia. £20, and I have the cheapest possible monthly deal £5 a month with Virgin. Means I can afford luxury* cars.

[the judge]

I had 2 of these,both were "chalky" blue after some weather. K and an L,both minge spec.

Made 500 quid on each within few days of having them in 90's.

Top bombing,worth every penny

[Cavcraft]

I reckon you've absolutely nailed it buying this, it's an ace looking car for a proper bargain price. In fact, I'll stick my neck out and say these are the best looking Mondeos they ever made.

[sierraman]

The base one from 1995 was the Aspen. You could get it only in 1.6 or the diesel. The speedo binnacle was different - no rev counter. Base in 1993 would have been the LX, afaik they didn't have a spec below this. Some European countries even got non colour bumpers.

[auldford]

Cracking buy there fella!

 

I had an LX 1.8 diesel on an M-plate. It was a nice comfy barge for battering up and down the motorways of central Scotland.

[greengartside]

Did some research and found there was actually a base spec!

 

This guy on Flickr has some amazing brochure scans BTW...

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/61090099@N04/22831540740/in/album-72157659836738631/

 

(1994 MY)

[Alexg]

I threw a bid on this when I found it tucked in the parts section. My eBay app alerted me to it ending but I couldn't be arsed to have another go - lucky for both of us probably. 

[sierraman]

Looks like an Aspen. I've got the 1995 brochure at home I'll have a look.

[egg]

Cheers greengartside - nice brochure find. I don't reckon it has ABS then - Ford's vehicle lookup on the Etis system doesn't mention it.

 

Alex - I noticed there were 4-5 bidders in all.

 

The collection has just got a whole lot easier - seller can now drive the car to Faversham tomorrow - so I just have to nip a couple of stops up the train line to get it in the morning. Should just be at cost of petrol. Fingers crossed.

[sierraman]

My 97 1.8LX didn't have ABS. Unlikely to have ABS in 1993.

[oldcars]

My Shuma has no abs in 2001

[sierraman]

The power steering wouldn't have been optional. They all had PAS...

[Guest Lord Sward]

Great cars.

[egg]

Well he's texted that he's ready for the morning, I've sorted tax and insurance. Pics will follow by lunchtime all being well!

 

(weird innit - feeling the need to post pics of a 23 year old Mondeo on the internet to people you've never met!)

[rantingYoof]

I've posted this elsewhere I think, but when we went to RoI a loooong time ago in SnrYoof's Senator, it decided to break down, and our replacement vehicle was a (brand new at the time) 1.6 Mondeo saloon.

 

I thought it was an interesting change of scenery. SnrYoof wasn't able to get his head around a manual 'box or having 120hp less than he had the day before.

[egg]

Yeah, I'm going to have 10 bhp less than in a Fusion!

[Pillock]

There was indeed a base model, this is the March 1993 Brochure...

 

 

Rev counter was LX and above

 

You also missed out on a sunroof, map pockets on the back of the seats, variable wipers and leccy windows. You get manual mirrors too, you pauper.

[Pillock]

Weirdly, compared to the 1995 brochure that has no side strips, in 1993 they are present and correct....

 

[chaseracer]

(weird innit - feeling the need to post pics of a 23 year old Mondeo on the internet to people you've never met!)

 

Perfectly normal acceptable behaviour round these parts, believe me...

 

GLWTC 

[brownnova]

(weird innit - feeling the need to post pics of a 23 year old Mondeo on the internet to people you've never met!)

...Living the dream!!

[sierraman]

I'd imagine most of the base spec would have been fleet specials.

[egg]

Pics. Issues and worries to follow! Lovely grandad smell about the interior. 

 

[egg]

More

[egg]

Good bits:

 

Ride quality is good, 

Pulls well enough considering engine size

Seats are comfy

Love the giffer-ness of it

Dealer stamps in the service book

 

Issues:

 

Oil leak - probably rocker cover gasket, bit of a smell of oil in the cabin - can see leak in the pic.

Steering a little vague around the straight ahead - a bit worrying as you increase speed, a bit of play in it. Also a bit heavy at low speeds. Tyre pressures checked so not that.

Constantly flickering on and off air bag light

No documentary evidence of timing belt change!

 

Early niggles:

 

Have to get those French looking yellow lights sorted

drivers wing mirror manual adjuster broken (can't adjust mirror to right height yet)

[robinmasters]

You should be able to punt that plate on to a middle-aged divorced lady for £££. Probably.

[egg]

Details, including £1.55 cashback, glued solid window winder, belts and leak...

[R9UKE]

That brings me right back to being a kid and the Mondeo being my favourite car EVAAA.

 

Fatha had a 1.6 LX and it had the same very 90s blue interior. I'm seriously jealous, well done!