AS Communal MK4&5 Mondeo Thread

[paulplom]

Did you bother refitting it?

[Out Run]

On 8/15/2020 at 5:54 PM, Out Run said:

Done my wheels body coloured. 
it’s taken a good couple of months. ?

Dunno if it’s obvious. But they are just dirty and I CBA to wash it. 

[sierraman]

20 hours ago, paulplom said:

Did you bother refitting it?

Yes, if I didn’t the horn and a load of other electrical bits would get piss wet through over the winter. 

[warren t claim]

5 hours ago, sierraman said:

Yes, if I didn’t the horn and a load of other electrical bits would get piss wet through over the winter. 

The undertray links onto the wheel arch liners and leaving it removed isn't a good idea. Also, these do occasionally drop a bit of oil and the undertray keeps prying MOT testers eyes away.

[Out Run]

Took the Mondeo on an @maxxo mish, Wednesday and came home, last night.

Collected some car parts, bought a bike, car never missed a beat. As expected.

Saw some old fwiends when there @Con2K (he also owns these image rights lol).

Shame I didn’t have more time, because as well as my TXS, he has the white Ecoboost TXS, black 2.2 TXS, has mates with x3 Lunar Sky TXS (x 2 2.2 and x1 2.0) and his FIL has a white 2.2 TXS.

We could have had a right Mondeo Massiv meet up and talked about all of the bits we don’t cover in vinyl or plastidip and how we don’t want ‘throaty’ sounding exhausts on our 4 pot oil burners.

 

[Out Run]

[warren t claim]

I'm impressed. 

I must admit I'm missing Mk4 Mondeo ownership a bit.

[SiC]

On 8/20/2020 at 4:52 PM, paulplom said:

Did you bother refitting it?

He probably scrapped it as not worth fixing ??

[warren t claim]

On 8/18/2020 at 11:36 AM, sierraman said:

For some reason the brake calliper retaining clip was missing on mine, phoned Ford up... £18 each. I think not, these came today £9 delivered for a pair. 

Rear pads are a twat to replace. I hope you have the proper tool to wind the calipers back in?

[warren t claim]

On 8/4/2020 at 1:17 PM, wuvvum said:

Aye, mine is all solid underneath and that's done over 200K.

Mine had never been welded even after 400K.

[junkyarddog]

22 minutes ago, warren t claim said:

Rear pads are a twat to replace. I hope you have the proper tool to wind the calipers back in?

Not as much of a twat as the Mk5 with the electric handbrake!

[warren t claim]

1 minute ago, junkyarddog said:

Not as much of a twat as the Mk5 with the electric handbrake!

You really don't want to know how I got through a weekend of taxiing in my 2007 Passat when one of the rear pads went down to the metal. I'll certainly not admit on here that the bodge involved a hose clamp. 

[sierraman]

1 hour ago, warren t claim said:

Rear pads are a twat to replace. I hope you have the proper tool to wind the calipers back in?

Come on mate! You are talking to a serial Mondeo botherer here. I’ve got the handed wind in things. 

[sierraman]

2 hours ago, warren t claim said:

I'm impressed. 

I must admit I'm missing Mk4 Mondeo ownership a bit.

I don’t think there’s a car to touch it for motorway work or taxi work in fact. 

[warren t claim]

20 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I don’t think there’s a car to touch it for motorway work or taxi work in fact. 

I'm not so sure with the later Mk4b diesel engines.

[Out Run]

2 hours ago, warren t claim said:

I'm impressed. 

I must admit I'm missing Mk4 Mondeo ownership a bit.

What are you driving now, mate? I must have missed the Cabbie Corner update.

IMO with these, for long distance, adaptive cruise and Convers Mods (digi speed in in this instance) make such a difference.

Here’s some more of @Con2K’s pics. 25mm spacers Vs standard. Nice way to compare.

[Out Run]

2 hours ago, warren t claim said:

Rear pads are a twat to replace. I hope you have the proper tool to wind the calipers back in?

Agreed that they are awkward. My wind back tool wasn’t up to the job.

[Out Run]

37 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I don’t think there’s a car to touch it for motorway work or taxi work in fact. 

Agreed. I used my PFL TX as a private hire for a bit, and before that it had been up and down the motorway forever and a day, in the hands of the previous owner.

[sierraman]

42 minutes ago, warren t claim said:

I'm not so sure with the later Mk4b diesel engines.

Flip side of same coin the pre 11 1.6 diesels were awful in terms of turbos going etc, the post ‘11 8 valvers are much better. 

[sierraman]

I’d quite like a 1.6 base Mondeo, saw one for sale recently it was a 1.6 petrol, no alloys, no electric rear windows, no metallic paint. BASE. 

[Out Run]

Wheel trims, too! Hold me back.

[Out Run]

Some dozy, oncoming tosser whacked my mirror, when they were way over the line on an NSL road, yesterday.

I couldn’t move over any further.

Only a cracked indicator and a couple of light scuffs. But still. ?

[warren t claim]

1 hour ago, Out Run said:

Some dozy, oncoming tosser whacked my mirror, when they were way over the line on an NSL road, yesterday.

I couldn’t move over any further.

Only a cracked indicator and a couple of light scuffs. But still. ?

If you had a Mk4a then it'd be cheaper to replace.

[Out Run]

2.2 owners, behold!

An actual 50 MPG average. I’m not one of these drips that slipstreams wagons etc. This is just from normal driving.

Dunno why the car has suddenly decided to start being so frugal.

[junkyarddog]

Different brand of diesel?

[outlaw118]

On 9/21/2020 at 2:05 PM, junkyarddog said:

Different brand of diesel?

This.

I've just brimmed and emptied Moose on Esso and got nigh on 100 more miles out of a tankful compared to Morrisons own-brand Dizzle.

Always thought the theory of supermarket "quality" stuff being off was horseshit, now I'm not so sure.

[sierraman]

7 hours ago, outlaw118 said:

This.

I've just brimmed and emptied Moose on Esso and got nigh on 100 more miles out of a tankful compared to Morrisons own-brand Dizzle.

Always thought the theory of supermarket "quality" stuff being off was horseshit, now I'm not so sure.

Less detergents apparently in the supermarket diesel. I’ve heard good reports of using millers ecomax, supposedly you can use crapper grades of diesel with this as it’s got the extra detergents in it. I think the bigger picture with diesels is regular fuel filter changes with good filters and driving them hard enough. 

A place I worked at years ago we had a fleet of Transit Mk4/5 TDCIs, both known for shitting injectors/pumps etc. All of them we did 120k in 3 years all of them run on BP diesel, all of them thrashed mercilessly, none of them and bear in mind we had a few, ever had injector failures. 

[warren t claim]

My Mk4a 2.0 Diesel FUCKING HATED supermarket fuel, especially from Sainsbury's.

[Out Run]

Mine usually gets Esso or Sainsbury’s. Just wherever I can get Nectar Points. It’s had BP, Shell and non-descript  stuff, too. I’ve never noticed any difference.

It often gets ran down to 0 miles, as did the last one.

[warren t claim]

10 minutes ago, Out Run said:

Mine usually gets Esso or Sainsbury’s. Just wherever I can get Nectar Points. It’s had BP, Shell and non-descript  stuff, too. I’ve never noticed any difference.

It often gets ran down to 0 miles, as did the last one.

What engine is in yours?