WBoD - 2.5 V6 Mondeo Ghia X

[Ohdearme]

Details on Page 3....£7 or three for £20

Or £400 cash money ????

Collectioneering Fred.

No alarm required this am. Sprog #1 screaming and puking in bed at 6am did the job.

Reduced the guilt of leaving wife with leaking children by carrying new tumble dryer upstairs and setting up.

Newfangled heat pump jobbie cost £40 shy of my WBOD budget and considerably shinier. Stuck head inside drum. Inhaled. New car smell. Nice.

Taxi driver was Indian version of Sarah Beeny, much unsolicited housing advice received.

Carriage awaits to Birmingham New Street.

[320touring]

Chodspeed.

 

*Clicks heels together whilst muttering "It better get me home, it better get me home"*

[mrbenn]

Interesting. I had a fairly solid theory as to what you might be collecting but I think you're heading in the wrong direction. Or my theory is wrong. Either way, one of us is wrong.

[chatsharris]

Good luck!

[Ohdearme]

At Birmingham new street, not been in a train station in Brum since my dad took me to the motor show at the NEC circa 1992.

 

I recall him being almost talked into buying something called a Hyundai x2.

 

I am beseated next to a person humming their voice scales under their breath. I do so love* public modes of transport.

 

Second leg and one hour or so to go before there’s dead cow caressing my cheeks.

[Ohdearme]

I fear the game may have rather been given away further up Fred

 

But I am rejoining the Fix Or Repair Daily stable the last Ford I had was my first car, a Mk2 Fiesta pop plus, with a whopping four gears and despite my best efforts an indestructible first and second gear. B810 XCP.

 

Hopefully mundaneo won’t have the same tendency to do rusty water wees through pinholes in the radiator when it comes to a stop.

[mrbenn]

Ah, the Mondeo! Well played.

 

Take care of it. A V6 Ford is an itch I want to scratch at some point and you're not that far from me

[Ohdearme]

Hmm...those immortal words every train passenger wishes to hear “This train is not in service, please return to the platform”.

 

Direct rail? One thinks not.

 

15 minute delay whilst they rustle up something with seats on it.

[clayts450]

[Ohdearme]

Every collection thread needs a y tho

[rantingYoof]

Rugby ain't the worse place to be stranded for train shite spotting, and it benefits from super fast things thundering through it, causing excitement.

 

Also, because it's near DIRFT it also gets goods trains of shite trundling through quite regularly.

 

I'm awaiting instructions before heading to the station. STANDING BY.

[rantingYoof]

I HAVE BEEN SUMMONSED!

 

*leaves*

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Hmm...those immortal words every train passenger wishes to hear “This train is not in service, please return to the platform”.

 

Direct rail? One thinks not.

 

15 minute delay whilst they rustle up something with seats on it.

 

Rare to see any passenger loco-hauled these days. Some sort of CrankEx going on?

[Ohdearme]

Those trains were parked at Rugby photos were attempt to keep fingers working on the freezing platform.

 

In other news...collected!

 

A very fruity engine note, the body is indeed giffered but only a mild dose imo.

 

Excellent station collection in the Lexus and another flawless autoshite transaction.

 

 

Just munching crisps in Tesco carpark and I’ve already fixed the stick drivers height motor. Weapon of choice, my fat arse. It now moves up and down as intended.

[rantingYoof]

Another Shiter well met and yet another flawless transaction.

 

Glad you've already sorted one problem out...It should prove a comfy companion for the 3hr journey back.

 

I hope you chose to go via the A1 because the M1 looks like a car park near the M6 and Leicester!

 

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[New POD]

At Birmingham new street, not been in a train station in Brum since my dad took me to the motor show at the NEC circa 1992.

 

I recall him being almost talked into buying something called a Hyundai x2.

 

I am beseated next to a person humming their voice scales under their breath. I do so love* public modes of transport.

 

Second leg and one hour or so to go before there’s dead cow caressing my cheeks.

I had occasion to go to "grand central" last Tuesday.

 

It lacks a Wetherspoons

[Ohdearme]

M1 was shut but Waze pushed me via m6 and A42 so not a massive detour.

 

I am almost home having stopped at my local Asda for wife apology sweets..

 

Truths.

There is a drone from the wheel 30-50

Drone goes away at 70

It is very comfy

35.6 mpg on motorway

Bum warmers work

It’s been polished of late

 

OMGZ Lies!

The passenger mirror wobbles a bit

Cruise is either fiendishly complex or probs not working

Drone comes back about 71/72

The cup holder is no good as phone holder - waze has been shouting alerts from various places in footwell during trip.

 

Bonus

I passed a similar Mundaneo on the motorway and was able to detect the absence of a Ghia badge on the rear quarterlight and sneer disapprovingly on my way past.

 

An excellent purchase, my regards yoof

[mrbenn]

The cup holder is no good as phone holder - waze has been shouting alerts from various places in footwell during trip.

 

Bonus

I passed a similar Mundaneo on the motorway and was able to detect the absence of a Ghia badge on the rear quarterlight and sneer disapprovingly on my way past.

 

[rantingYoof]

I genuinely forgot the cruise didn't seem to work and must have never taken the speed high enough to get the drone back.

 

*some guilts*

 

But glad you've got a big list of positives up there and your MPGs are superior to the ones I achieved.

[overrun]

M1 was shut but Waze pushed me via m6 and A42 so not a massive detour.

 

I am almost home having stopped at my local Asda for wife apology sweets..

 

Truths.

There is a drone from the wheel 30-50

Drone goes away at 70

It is very comfy

35.6 mpg on motorway

Bum warmers work

It’s been polished of late

 

OMGZ Lies!

The passenger mirror wobbles a bit

Cruise is either fiendishly complex or probs not working

Drone comes back about 71/72

The cup holder is no good as phone holder - waze has been shouting alerts from various places in footwell during trip.

 

Bonus

I passed a similar Mundaneo on the motorway and was able to detect the absence of a Ghia badge on the rear quarterlight and sneer disapprovingly on my way past.

 

An excellent purchase, my regards yoof

 

Wait until you encounter a Ghia X, you will have to slither down into your povvo cloth seats like the worm you are.

[Ohdearme]

*some guilts*

I forbid you from guilt. It is absolutely fine!

 

It is significantly more as described than the Aero I bought.

 

The only peculiar twist in the journey is that since I left home this morning a bloody Mondrian of similar vintage has appeared in the pub car park at the end of my street - for sale £625...about the same as a train plus the one I’ve bought.

 

Doubt it has the Yellow Pages-esque history file though

[Ohdearme]

Wait until you encounter a Ghia X, you will have to slither down into your povvo cloth seats like the worm you are.

Mine is indeed already an x...but I already know I will be peering through other high spec Mondeo windows looking to see if they have the multi light bum warmer switch indicating they have heated and ventilated seats and are therefore ‘above’ me in social standing.

[Ohdearme]

Dissapointed with the limited* history

 

Some poor sod has put a lot of money into this thing.

[Rave]

Cruise is either fiendishly complex or probs not working

 

I do find it fairly fiendishly complex TBH, and very hard to use at night as the buttons are not lit up. On mine it's the 'on' button on the left hand side of the wheel followed as quickly as you can manage by 'set' on the right side. Then you can adjust the speed in 1mph increments with the +/- buttons (one of which is also 'set') on the right. I don't know how the resume function works, I think you have to disable the cruise by pressing the brakes or dipping the clutch, both of which I always take great pains to avoid so as not to waste fuel. If you wait too long between pressing 'on' and 'set' it doesn't work.

[rantingYoof]

Ah, so there's a chance it does work as I never tried activating and setting it in quick succession!

 

*fingers crossed*

 

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[Rave]

Have a shot from the manual:

 

 

Although it doesn't mention the need to press set quickly, I'm sure mine only gives you a second or two at most. I tend to position fingers over both buttons before I try and start the procedure!

[Ohdearme]

Have a shot from the manual:

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Although it doesn't mention the need to press set quickly, I'm sure mine only gives you a second or two at most. I tend to position fingers over both buttons before I try and start the procedure!

Thanks.

 

Why is your manual resting on Bagpuss?

[Ohdearme]

Morning frost permitted testing of screen defrostage button.

 

 

Clearly designed to avoid passengers seeing my excellent* winter roadcraft.

[rantingYoof]

[mrbenn]

TADTS (eventually).

Bonus - auto dimming rear view mirror! You flash bugger!