Boring Old Mondeo Content...
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My main car is an Audi S8, details of which are contained in this thread: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
I sporadically run a second car if I get a bit too precious about my main car or I come across a bargain. Seems like both have happened today...
My parents previously had a 2006 Mondeo 2.0 tdci. When they retired a few years ago, they gave it to me to run for a while to keep the miles off my previous S6. I loved the car. It handled well, was economical and cheap to run. It was a great station car so to speak as I didn't worry about leaving it anywhere. Unfortunately, it got written off by a taxi driver approximately 12 months ago. I got paid out for the write off value and have been hankering after one ever since.
I was browsing BCA's website last night and saw a 2002 Ford Mondeo with 40k miles on. Mileage was showing as incorrect so I checked the MOT history and it seems to have been reset sometime in 2008. Not sure why. Maybe a new engine, maybe a poorly masked attempt at clocking. Anyway if it went at the right price, it didn't put me off.
It's the top spec Ghia X which means it's got 17'" alloys, leather interior (which seems to be unmarked), heated seats, climate, CD player. Other plus points of a car at this end of the budget were tyres with 7mm all round and a full tank of diesel! Two keys, six months MOT, and at least ten service invoices complete the good points!
The bad points are a scuff on the front offside bumper and obviously the mileage discrepancy.
Without further ado, onto the pictures!!!
Finally, what did I pay??? It was the first vehicle to go through the online auction this afternoon. CAP clean put it at circa £700 and nowadays most cars go over that. The first bid was £600 I think. I swiped right at £625 and thought to myself that I'd bid to £700. Surprisingly, nobody else bid. It hadn't hit reserve so disappeared into the ether. Half an hour later, I checked on my account and hey presto, there it sat in my account with a request for payment. The seller must have decided to let it go under the reserve. So with fees, it stands me at a tad over £700 which I consider to be a bargain.
Plans are a full service. £25 gets me 5 litres of fully synthetic oil, oil filter and an air filter. Maybe pads and discs all round too. I'll have a look underneath to see how badly rusted it is as the MOT mentions it.
Oh, did I mention the colour? It looks a bit beige in those pics but I'm hoping it's the lighting. I hope it's a grey or silver as it's described as silver. However Ford do an oyster silver which has a tinge of Jewish Racing Gold. More pics and updates to follow...
I sporadically run a second car if I get a bit too precious about my main car or I come across a bargain. Seems like both have happened today...
My parents previously had a 2006 Mondeo 2.0 tdci. When they retired a few years ago, they gave it to me to run for a while to keep the miles off my previous S6. I loved the car. It handled well, was economical and cheap to run. It was a great station car so to speak as I didn't worry about leaving it anywhere. Unfortunately, it got written off by a taxi driver approximately 12 months ago. I got paid out for the write off value and have been hankering after one ever since.
I was browsing BCA's website last night and saw a 2002 Ford Mondeo with 40k miles on. Mileage was showing as incorrect so I checked the MOT history and it seems to have been reset sometime in 2008. Not sure why. Maybe a new engine, maybe a poorly masked attempt at clocking. Anyway if it went at the right price, it didn't put me off.
It's the top spec Ghia X which means it's got 17'" alloys, leather interior (which seems to be unmarked), heated seats, climate, CD player. Other plus points of a car at this end of the budget were tyres with 7mm all round and a full tank of diesel! Two keys, six months MOT, and at least ten service invoices complete the good points!
The bad points are a scuff on the front offside bumper and obviously the mileage discrepancy.
Without further ado, onto the pictures!!!
Finally, what did I pay??? It was the first vehicle to go through the online auction this afternoon. CAP clean put it at circa £700 and nowadays most cars go over that. The first bid was £600 I think. I swiped right at £625 and thought to myself that I'd bid to £700. Surprisingly, nobody else bid. It hadn't hit reserve so disappeared into the ether. Half an hour later, I checked on my account and hey presto, there it sat in my account with a request for payment. The seller must have decided to let it go under the reserve. So with fees, it stands me at a tad over £700 which I consider to be a bargain.
Plans are a full service. £25 gets me 5 litres of fully synthetic oil, oil filter and an air filter. Maybe pads and discs all round too. I'll have a look underneath to see how badly rusted it is as the MOT mentions it.
Oh, did I mention the colour? It looks a bit beige in those pics but I'm hoping it's the lighting. I hope it's a grey or silver as it's described as silver. However Ford do an oyster silver which has a tinge of Jewish Racing Gold. More pics and updates to follow...
Just been digging about having done a cheap HPI check. Having a look at the record mileage on the MOT checks, would it be possible that the first two mileages were recorded incorrectly and should be in the 3,000 mile region and not the 30,000 region and they were misrecorded?
Also, the car has had 4 previous keepers. Looking at the plate change history, perhaps some of the keepers were the same family as a private plate was assigned twice to the vehicle?
Also, the car has had 4 previous keepers. Looking at the plate change history, perhaps some of the keepers were the same family as a private plate was assigned twice to the vehicle?
Edited by KungFuPanda on Thursday 30th June 22:02
Yeah I'd say same family since 2004 (when the first private reg was used). Same private reg used a few years later until the car was sold.
Probably bought from a dealer nearly new then in the family ever since.
Not sure in the mileage - could well be a new engine, although you wouldn't reset the mileage at that point!
Probably bought from a dealer nearly new then in the family ever since.
Not sure in the mileage - could well be a new engine, although you wouldn't reset the mileage at that point!
That looks an utter bargain and absolutely perfect for a dull daily commute - the brighter interior will give it that little edge of any old Mondeo, seats look great, it'll be quiet and ride along over crappy roads and concrete motorways in a way that would make any Msport or S-line owner cry inside.
Lovely things. I had one in a similar spec (but red with black interior) back in 2005 and it was a great car that I also took on a couple of track days. I added a tuning box and took it from 30k to 80k in a couple of years and the only things that went wrong was a camshaft positiion sensor and a rusted exhaust bracket. I think these look nicer than the facelift without all the chrome stick-on bling.
Ended up selling mine as it was too big for my needs - my Mum keeps reminding me how the "Sierra" was her favourite car that I have owned because it was so comfortable to ride in.
Checking the MOT history, looks like it died sometime in 2015 with 180+k miles on!
Chris
Ended up selling mine as it was too big for my needs - my Mum keeps reminding me how the "Sierra" was her favourite car that I have owned because it was so comfortable to ride in.
Checking the MOT history, looks like it died sometime in 2015 with 180+k miles on!
Chris
ScoobyChris said:
Lovely things. I had one in a similar spec (but red with black interior) back in 2005 and it was a great car that I also took on a couple of track days. I added a tuning box and took it from 30k to 80k in a couple of years and the only things that went wrong was a camshaft positiion sensor and a rusted exhaust bracket. I think these look nicer than the facelift without all the chrome stick-on bling.
Mine was an 04 Ghia X, red with black leather interior (and chrome bits). It handled really well, comfortable and was very stable flat out on the Autobahnen. The chassis and steering were vastly better than the Mk1 Octavia vRS that preceded it. I won a Dragon Tuning box in a competition in "Practical Performance Car", but decided against using it (horror stories about TDCis dying) and sold it on. Nothing went wrong with my car. I sold it at ~100k miles.
Ps. MOT expired in 2019.
Edited by MC Bodge on Friday 1st July 09:29
Definitely oyster silver - mine was the same colour. It’s the perfect colour for people who don’t wash cars, it looks no different when filthy. I (wasn’t actually me) washed mine once, in 4 years, and that’s only becuase the place that did the clutch/flywheel washed it.
looks like a billy bargain to me!
looks like a billy bargain to me!
Small update. BCA were meant to delivery the car last Friday however they somehow managed to deliver the car to a garage around the corner from the intended delivery address!
My business partner had a walk around the block and found the car parked up on a side road. I’m collecting it tomorrow…
My business partner had a walk around the block and found the car parked up on a side road. I’m collecting it tomorrow…
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