Sold SOLD: Moog's 2002 Mondeo MK3 2.0 Ghia TDCI - £120

[sierraman]

Wait for the flashing glow plug light of doom!

[smellypoo]

NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

 

ENTRED RAFFEL THEN CANCELED UNTRUSTWORTHY SHITER WLD NT USE AGEN

 

Forgive me Reverend Father, for I have sinned.

 

Much deliberation was had before I accepted the offer - they've bought it at the equivalent price to the roffle total so have donated toward forum upkeep and while the roffle is good fun, the temptation of the quick fix was too great.

 

Sadly they won't have get-you-home tax as I had to SORN it yesterday with it being the end of the month - I did (optimistically) think it would have sold before yesterday! 

 

Wait for the flashing glow plug light of doom!

 

Oh, ye of little faith!

 

I hope the car will stay in the fold (it's going to a longstanding member) - should the buyer sell it once bored/swapped with some other variety of automotive shite, it'll be interesting to see it continue to plod on. These things have a reputation for being scrapped due to DMF, injectors, turbo, fuel pump etc - but they sold so many of them, surely they're not all bad!

 

This one is mechanically good and drives well but is merely saying that tempting fate? SP Snr had it for a fair few years (from 2006 - yesterday) without any mechanical issues and it's had a fairly regular basic maintenance routine (fluids, filters, consumables) - I can't help think that a lot of the failures were due to poor/incorrect maintenance along with design vulnerabilities that became more apparent because owners/drivers didn't know/care about treating the car optimally. 

[sierraman]

It's not something I'd worry about tbh. As you say a lot of stuff is preventable in terms of the EGR and checking the boost hose. The injectors failing happens over time similar for the DMF. So long as it doesn't do it when you've bought it you've got some time before shit gets messy.

[The Moog]

Right

 

I purchased this today and it is great. I really enjoyed driving it but it is surplus to requirements due to factors.

 

I would keep this but I will have to make my way down from the frozen north which will cost £60 plus diesel money to get back.

 

So happy to take a loss if this can be gone in next week.

 

£120 takes it.

 

V5 has been applied for so can be forwarded on when arrives

[The Moog]

Will be taxed to get you home.

[smellypoo]

That is an utter bargain.

 

I know I'm biased but that car will be a right result for someone in need of cheap transport who isn't too precious about the cosmetics or the little non-critical faults it has.

[The Moog]

Mr Poo - can you amend the title accordingly ?

[smellypoo]

Mr Poo - can you amend the title accordingly ?

 

Done, sir. Hope all the logistics etc all work out! 

[r.welfare]

Is this now (or will it be) located in Accrington?

[The Moog]

No - it is located in Uxbridge - UB8.

 

I can deliver it tomorrow to reasonable locations as long as I get dropped back to Uxbridge if that helps.

[wuvvum]

Fuck fuck fuckington fuck.

 

I don't suppose Norwich would meet your criteria re "reasonable locations"?

[The Moog]

Fuck fuck fuckington fuck.

 

I don't suppose Norwich would meet your criteria re "reasonable locations"?

Sadly not.... Its even past the "cheeky but worth an ask" boundary

[wuvvum]

Otherwise I could get down to Uxbridge one evening in the week, if that's any use.

[The Moog]

Thats no problem.

 

It is up my mums drive off road, so a later collection isn't an issue.

 

I can leave keys and paperwork with the little Welshwoman aka mother Moog.

[wuvvum]

Looking at train times I should be able to get to the Bridge of Ux for just after 8pm, so wouldn't be too uncivilised an hour.

[BorniteIdentity]

I'd be interested in sloppy seconds on this please. After the bastard gazzumping I took on that Escort, I'm not going to step forward any furtherb unless Wuv is out.

[The Moog]

And Sold.

 

 

This place is definitely what it used to be.

[BorniteIdentity]

Bollocks.

 

Well done y'all.

[smellypoo]

Do you want the thread title updating again?

[The Moog]

Do you want the thread title updating again?

Yes please mister

[Jim Bell]

Ah man. Just seen this. Too late.

[smellypoo]

Yes please mister

Done!

 

Ah man. Just seen this. Too late.

I reckon there is a good chance it'll become an AS 'bike', might pickup some improvements along the way!

[Station]

The new. User should sell it a couple of hours, come on everyone lets see how many new owners we can get on the log book in a month, the DVLA will have to change the 'amount_of_owners' variable from 'int' to 'long' (joke for programmers there).

[Jim Bell]

Ha ha ha ha ha I dont get it.

[beko1987]

I'll have the v5 in my name for 3 days if it helps? I don't want the car though

[purplebargeken]

I probably couldn't get reasonable insurance even just on a photo of this car. Sulk.

[billy_bunter]

missed again aaahhhhh!

[smellypoo]

Ha ha ha ha ha I dont get it.

In programming you define data types for variables. As a basic analogy, think of a paper form where you need to fill in your details with a field for each piece of info (such as forename, surname, address, postcode, DOB etc) and those fields are split into little boxes for each character (so for DOB you might have 8 boxes, ddmmyyyy). On a computer, the data type for that field is DATE, with a particular format to hold the value - meaning that any number outside of 01-12 in the MM boxes is invalid, as is trying to type in non-numeric characters. INT and LONG both define a data type for a field that holds an integer value (no decimals, just whole numbers) but the difference is the maximum size of the number - LONG would be used where an INT field won't hold a number big enough.

 

That's a bit overly simple but should explain it... Although if you're not really interested or already know I've probably made a tit of myself!

[Station]

LONG is used for ridiculously long numbers. In uni we were asked what these were used for and we said it was for astronsuticsl units but it is for financial/banking.