AS Communal MK4&5 Mondeo Thread

[beko1987]

Looks like we're going to view replacements for my friends Mondeo later today, he's had a 3rd child 🙄

Mondeo is now quite tight with them and their dog, so he's been browsing £1500 bigger cars and he has some 2011 Qashqai and Peugeot 5008 1.6hdi he wants to look at (both at the same place)

https://www.theaa.com/used-cars/cardetails/6-3080785

I'm staying mostly out of any recommendations, but I'll help him do a thorough service of whatever we buy (especially a 1.6 prince 😬)

Our vague current plan is hoping that somewhere takes his mondeo in part ex for scrap money. He's been coy about doing any work on it for a while now and now I know why (he should have a 3rd child already but sadly the little chap didn't make it, so there's some history here. I unknowingly rang him when he was doing his "oh fuck" hospital dash many years ago and i still hear that call now in my head sometimes 😢) but he is right that there's now zero point putting the £3/400 into the mondeo , it's been a good donkey for a year and probably 15k+ with fuck all maintenance performed.

I'm gonna put my dirty clothes on ready to lie under the qq and test it's boot floor corners 😂

[Bren]

4 hours ago, beko1987 said:

Looks like we're going to view replacements for my friends Mondeo later today, he's had a 3rd child 🙄

Mondeo is now quite tight with them and their dog, so he's been browsing £1500 bigger cars and he has some 2011 Qashqai and Peugeot 5008 1.6hdi he wants to look at (both at the same place)

https://www.theaa.com/used-cars/cardetails/6-3080785

I'm staying mostly out of any recommendations, but I'll help him do a thorough service of whatever we buy (especially a 1.6 prince 😬)

Our vague current plan is hoping that somewhere takes his mondeo in part ex for scrap money. He's been coy about doing any work on it for a while now and now I know why (he should have a 3rd child already but sadly the little chap didn't make it, so there's some history here. I unknowingly rang him when he was doing his "oh fuck" hospital dash many years ago and i still hear that call now in my head sometimes 😢) but he is right that there's now zero point putting the £3/400 into the mondeo , it's been a good donkey for a year and probably 15k+ with fuck all maintenance performed.

I'm gonna put my dirty clothes on ready to lie under the qq and test it's boot floor corners 😂

A £1500 car could end up being worse than spending £400 on the mondeo. Unfortunately it's one major failure and then scrap territory.

[beko1987]

2 hours ago, Bren said:

A £1500 car could end up being worse than spending £400 on the mondeo. Unfortunately it's one major failure and then scrap territory.

It could, but it's done!

This was on our test drive of it. 

Unbeknownst to me, the mondeo started making an awful noise in drive a few days ago. We think the power steering pump as the clutch felt fine. Went away above 55/60 but is loud as fuck below that! And it's not big enough for him now. He's done nothing to it since we bought it, no tyres, servicing or etc and it hurt his leg to drive he said frequently where it hits the doorcard.

It wasn't even the car we went to see. There was a Scenic 2 TomTom which barely fired up and had fucked paint on every panel

There was a 5008 but it's fucking massive and also looked equally a bit shit

We test drove a white Ford S class which felt fucking awful. The guy said the egr light was on and they were fixing that, then the esp light came on on the test drive! I had a go and it had zero power and the clutch felt like nothing although it was clutching.

We then saw the touran and took that out and it was far better. Clean and tidy (vs the rest), good tyres, non lipped discs, very rust free underneath. He did a deal at £1550 with his mondeo as a part ex and we drove home!

I them opened the sealed paperwork pack it had in the glove box. Local one owner car (came from maidenhead) and as we drove back I found 2 key invoices both less than 30k old, one at vw Slough at 130ish k for a new cambelt, turbo, pipes, rear brakes and other things! Then another receipt sub 25k old for a clutch and flywheel! My friend was even happier then!

It drove back fine, it pulled well and my mate is happy! We'll give it a good service next and hope it plods along. 

Rip mondeo. He did 20k in it by just adding fuel, he's happy with that