'93 Mondy thread - (very) partial PAS fluid change

[greengartside]

The gift of my local scrapyard keeps on giving…

L93 ONH - December 1993 1.8 TD LX. About 150k on the clock. Will investigate more at the weekend.

 

[MantaGTE85]

I wish I knew how to upload photos, I really do.

I spotted a mark 1 driving through Exmouth this morning. N316COH, a 1.8LX petrol hatch in very shonky Electric Current Red, with a ladder on the roof and giffer body repairs sprayed on top of previous giffer body repairs in a few places. It has the slimmer black door rubber mouldings, so definitely a mark 1 LX in its final development just before the mark 2 came out. Its MOT history is pretty decent as these things go, but it seems like its mileometer stopped working about 4 years ago, at 116000 miles.

[High Jetter]

  On 09/07/2024 at 12:41, MantaGTE85 said:

I wish I knew how to upload photos, I really do.

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Get the pic on your device, open a reply, tap "add files", find said pic, tap on it and the pic should appear as an uploaded image. Tap on the image, and it pops into your post. That's how I do it, anyway.

[cms206]

K440 LYA on marketplace.

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1914268149007429/

[egg]

  On 10/07/2024 at 15:01, cms206 said:

K440 LYA on marketplace.

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1914268149007429/

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thanks just came to post the same £500 is surely a decent car for someone.

[greengartside]

Right…

Been to see the scrapyard Mondeo. Someone liked their black paint but it is all there. Even the 1.8 TD unit is a good one.

any good parts for @egg and others?

[egg]

  On 14/07/2024 at 09:39, greengartside said:

any good parts for @egg and others?

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Sorry, forgot to say thanks for the pics etc. Not sure I have any immediate needs that aren't fairly complicated etc (like the upper window frame on driver's side that I believe is a faff to remove and harder to post!). Thanks!

Just hoovering mine (MOT next week - mileage has been very very low again this year).  Bloke walks past and says 'nice original Mondeo' which is always nice.

[sierraman]

If the door seals are good they go for some decent £ on eBay. 

[Eyersey1234]

  On 14/07/2024 at 09:39, greengartside said:

Right…

Been to see the scrapyard Mondeo. Someone liked their black paint but it is all there. Even the 1.8 TD unit is a good one.

any good parts for @egg and others?

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It appears that Ford dealer closed around 20 years ago from what I can  find online 

[egg]

Can I used (red) Dexron 2 in my PAS system? Official Ford spec should be ESP-M2C 166-H

That's what I have in stock, but have no memory if that's what I used last time.

[egg]

MOT passed, it should do, it's barely been anywhere this year!

[Dyslexic Viking]

  On 21/07/2024 at 13:53, egg said:

Can I used (red) Dexron 2 in my PAS system? Official Ford spec should be ESP-M2C 166-H

That's what I have in stock, but have no memory if that's what I used last time.

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The oil Comma recommends for use on this is also Dexron 2. So I will assume thats is fine.

https://www.commaoil.com/vrn-recommendations/?countryCode=gb&brand=comma&typeId=573

[Peter C]

  On 24/07/2024 at 09:14, egg said:

MOT passed, it should do, it's barely been anywhere this year!

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I know the feeling well.

All the more reason for you and the Mondie to briefly leave Kent in September.

 

[Eyersey1234]

  On 24/07/2024 at 09:14, egg said:

MOT passed, it should do, it's barely been anywhere this year!

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Chodtastic news

[quicksilver]

  On 24/07/2024 at 09:14, egg said:

MOT passed, it should do, it's barely been anywhere this year!

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Excellent news. That's two K-reg Mondeos that have got fresh MoTs this month. Ours failed initially but only on a split in the exhaust that the guy welded up (and inoperative number plate lights but that appears to have been tester error putting the switch in the wrong position).

[egg]

#notmyphotos - MK1's at FoTU

[Eyersey1234]

  On 28/07/2024 at 19:17, egg said:

#notmyphotos - MK1's at FoTU

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That bottom one looks like Garnet Red

[BorniteIdentity]

Ex wife and children have just bought a house using the equity I slaved to build up over the years.

Anyway! In the kitchen drawer, the previous owner left us a set of details from way back when.  I would estimate about 2002 judging by house prices and the amazing Mondeo on the drive!

 

I aim to recreate the image with a shitty Sierra in the future.

Fiesta on the left drive judging by that TRIMYO?

[egg]

Love it, the Blairite dream in full swing (don't mention Iraq). 

They were probably going to settle down that evening and watch Pop Idol.

[egg]

Is it these Fiesta trims?

[BorniteIdentity]

Certainly looks like it.  New Labour heartland.

[warren t claim]

  On 04/08/2024 at 20:17, BorniteIdentity said:

Ex wife and children have just bought a house using the equity I slaved to build up over the years.

Anyway! In the kitchen drawer, the previous owner left us a set of details from way back when.  I would estimate about 2002 judging by house prices and the amazing Mondeo on the drive!

 

I aim to recreate the image with a shitty Sierra in the future.

Fiesta on the left drive judging by that TRIMYO?

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Is a six year old Mondeo in keeping with that type of address? I'd wager this is a 1998ish picture.

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 04/08/2024 at 23:23, warren t claim said:

Is a six year old Mondeo in keeping with that type of address? I'd wager this is a 1998ish picture.

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My guess was purely based on my memory of asking prices in the area at the time.

SO - let's have a look!

 

AND...

 

You are more correct than me!

I thought the asking of £96995 was a bit strong, but there we go.  Decent price achieved. 

[warren t claim]

  On 04/08/2024 at 23:46, BorniteIdentity said:

My guess was purely based on my memory of asking prices in the area at the time.

SO - let's have a look!

 

AND...

 

You are more correct than me!

I thought the asking of £96995 was a bit strong, but there we go.  Decent price achieved. 

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2002 would've put that Mk1 Mondeo into prime W.T.C taxi rental fleet territory and I can assure you that none of mine ever looked as tidy as that example!

[sierraman]

  On 04/08/2024 at 20:17, BorniteIdentity said:

Ex wife and children have just bought a house using the equity I slaved to build up over the years.

Anyway! In the kitchen drawer, the previous owner left us a set of details from way back when.  I would estimate about 2002 judging by house prices and the amazing Mondeo on the drive!

 

I aim to recreate the image with a shitty Sierra in the future.

Fiesta on the left drive judging by that TRIMYO?

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Inside I’m picturing an oak veneer effect kitchen, a row of those kitchen devil knives everyone was after, a black ash living room shelving, a yucca plant and a big G plan draylon sofa. A matsui brand television and vhs combo as well. 

[BorniteIdentity]

  On 05/08/2024 at 07:45, sierraman said:

Inside I’m picturing an oak veneer effect kitchen, a row of those kitchen devil knives everyone was after, a black ash living room shelving, a yucca plant and a big G plan draylon sofa. A matsui brand television and vhs combo as well. 

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Sadly no internal photos. Those of us of this certain age remember that colour details were rare at estate agents; they’d take a photo, stick it on the typed page and then photocopy it! How things have changed. 

Ironically, it’s the nicest house I’ve bought. Funny how life works out (!)

[sierraman]

  On 05/08/2024 at 07:59, BorniteIdentity said:

Sadly no internal photos. Those of us of this certain age remember that colour details were rare at estate agents; they’d take a photo, stick it on the typed page and then photocopy it! How things have changed. 

Ironically, it’s the nicest house I’ve bought. Funny how life works out (!)

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Hopefully you will get yourself a suitably period house for the Sierra to sit outside of! 

[Spottedlaurel]

  On 05/08/2024 at 07:59, BorniteIdentity said:

Sadly no internal photos. Those of us of this certain age remember that colour details were rare at estate agents; they’d take a photo, stick it on the typed page and then photocopy it! How things have changed. 

Ironically, it’s the nicest house I’ve bought. Funny how life works out (!)

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Or, as was the case with the agency people in the firm of chartered surveyors that I worked for in the late '80s, they'd send their films off to a specialist company who'd print off a load of the photos at a certain size ready to be stuck onto the typed and copied particulars. Maybe it would get stapled into a glossy card folder, for something a bit upmarket....

Somewhere I have a shot of mum and stepdad's Mk1 Mondeo outside the house we bought in '98. I think the sales particulars for it had the previous owner's Lada estate on the driveway! That house was ex-LA and £56k (important to get it under the stamp duty threshold!), so the price for 'your' one as a private estate house somewhere decent in East Anglia in '99 seems about right to me.

I remember lots of dark internal joinery and heavy, chintzy curtains back then. Interesting to remember what Mondeo man would have been living in back then, gives it a bit of context.

[egg]

Well, I can tell you Mondeo man now lives in a 3 bed 30's semi in a slightly decaying seaside town with no off-street parking....

[egg]

Tiny segment here about the Mondeo becoming the Contour in the US in 1994...