AS Communal MK4&5 Mondeo Thread

[sierraman]

I must say I’ve been looking at Kugas lately, maybe I’m getting old or losing the plot but it’s a sort of logical successor to a Mondeo, big, comfortable etc. Also they seem to be looked after much better as it’s usually a private car. A lot of the Mondeos for sale seem to have had seven bells of shit knocked out of them. 

[beko1987]

On 24/06/2025 at 16:14, Cookiesouwest said:

Idle control valve ?

That's what I'm hoping, it's probably part of the throttle body assembly nowadays isn't it?

He's been doing some looking and fuel filter came up, plus spark plugs. We fitted new plugs the day I did my cambelt in Feb but they were cheap shite, I'm wondering if I should owe him some better spark plugs... Will pop one out and see, I said I'd get a tin of brake clean and we'll have a look for anything obvious.

Being a mk4.5 googling where shit is is impossible, I always get results for other cars and with it not being my car I've not crawled all over it to find these things 😂

[beko1987]

22 hours ago, sierraman said:

I must say I’ve been looking at Kugas lately, maybe I’m getting old or losing the plot but it’s a sort of logical successor to a Mondeo, big, comfortable etc. Also they seem to be looked after much better as it’s usually a private car. A lot of the Mondeos for sale seem to have had seven bells of shit knocked out of them. 

The ex is on her 2nd kuga now. The first she got on finance and had it 2 years but last week she chopped it in for a newer hybrid kuga for the same monthly price of £680 a month 🙄

She never pleads poverty so I  won't ask questions but it made me feel better about the qq, worst case I've only spunked less than 3 months rental up the wall 😂

The old one started keeping the clutch depressed though which made a tint bit more sense to swap before it went very badly wrong.

They don't look bad cars, I've been in her old one a couple of times locally and it's fine.

I bet you've got to hunt for the specific engine and gearbox combo that isn't fucking shit in a tadts kind of way though

[sierraman]

There’s millions of them on the road, I don’t think the early petrols were worth your time as they’d be chewing through fuel at a rate. So it’d be the 1.5 or the 2.0 diesel. The later petrols look ok but I’d be spending perhaps £6-7k so they’re not in the running at that money. 

[sierraman]

On 24/06/2025 at 12:24, beko1987 said:

My friend messaged me this morning (with the 2007 2.0 pez mondeo). When idling Hsu engine has started surging noticeably. Said it seemed better when at speed but he felt it mildly...

Any ideas? I've told him to see if the car tries to die if he dips the clutch at mild speed, and if it's translating into the tach needle moving as well. My next thoughts are spend half an hour with a can of brake cleaner and remove and clean things like the throttle body and maf etc. Not thrown an engine code though 

Possibly a vac leak on the pipe that goes in between the inlet manifold. I’d check that first.

[beko1987]

Ah he's leaving the office, just noticed the time. Seems we might get a code now

[sierraman]

This is exactly why you should never get involved when people ask you to help them buy a car. 

[beko1987]

15 minutes ago, sierraman said:

This is exactly why you should never get involved when people ask you to help them buy a car. 

I know, but this isn't so bad, Harry is very cool and isn't too fussed by it all. It's a disposable short term car for him anyway.

However

I reckon the cheap shit spark plugs I fitted for him have gone (hopefully tbh). Do I need to buy some special fancy style of plugs for this? 

I said we'd move the plug from 4 to 3 and check, but tbh if we have another set of known_ok plugs to lob in we should do that.

Otherwise do the coil packs usually go bad? Their individual too iirc so we could move one of those too.

 

[sierraman]

Not unknown tbh.

[beko1987]

These are what it has in it currently. 

Will inspect and assess, he's driving in it atm so if it fully dies I'll know. The only spark plugs I have lying around are a totally different tip type to that one.

I'm also really not convinced their not fake shit spark plugs though 😂

[sierraman]

22 minutes ago, beko1987 said:

These are what it has in it currently. 

Will inspect and assess, he's driving in it atm so if it fully dies I'll know. The only spark plugs I have lying around are a totally different tip type to that one.

I'm also really not convinced their not fake shit spark plugs though 😂

You don’t need iridium plugs on that. A set of NGK standard ones will be fine. 

[beko1987]

Awesome, thanks!

(is it the 2l ecoboost he has? From googling it seems to be)

I've got these that were destined for a mates Mazda5 petrol a few years ago but never made it before the car got fucked off for natural reasons so if I can use those incase we remove the plug and it's fucked then that works 👌