Is yours a 4x4 too tom? I've only ever seen 2 4x4 mondeos

I had a 4x4 mondeo before my octavia.Good car had it for 9 years.Only reason i had to get rid of it was because the rear subframe had rusted through.

Tom

Once all the problems are sorted you will have a decent car. My previous commuter hack 2.0 ghia x did more than 40K miles with me and never missed a beat unill the auto box went. Still that was a cheap repair, and the car is still going strong as I see it weekly.

Cheers Manny. I do have faith in the old gal, its just a shame its such a pig to work on. Hope it will go for atleast 12 months before it needs this level of effort putting into it again. Its not been expensive (under £250 for a pair of wishbones, track rod ends, alternator, exhaust section and tracking), but quite labour intensive.

I ran my last Mondeo (ST200) for 3.5 years and did 70k. Pretty much 100% reliable but I never averaged 31.9 mpg out of it. :eek:

Your not trying hard enough Tom.

Is 31.9 mpg really that good?? Thats involved a huge amount of hooning about testing various thing, extensive idling etc... yes a few sedate runs, but I'm hoping long term average will be nearer 35 mpg.

It seems the trip computer tells porkies too. One tank it will be a couple of mpg under, the next a couple over... and the way it refreshes makes me laugh - nothing for 20 minutes, then it moves by a whole mpg in a few seconds. Wierd.

I do see the car being generally reliable, and can't wait to get it back on the road tomorrow!

The ST200 is quite a different beast though! Different suspension, geommetry etc all revised, an extra 30 horses etc etc...

Prior to the ST200 I had a couple of normal V6's and even though this was a few years ago now I still don't remember getting returns like that.

As I said you're still not trying hard enough.

As they say, the name FORD is only an acronym for Fix Or Repair Daily.

Mac

what's the heated rear screen on your Skoda for again...

what's the heated rear screen on your Skoda for again...

:iagree:

All 4 of the fords that have been in the family have been far more reliable than the 3 VAG cars of various brands and if something does need fixing on a ford it's much cheaper.

Even if you did have to fix the ford daily, which you don't, you could still fix it every day of the week for less than the price that VAG charge for a normal service.

Is yours a 4x4 too tom? I've only ever seen 2 4x4 mondeos

thats more than me , and i worked in a Ford garage for 16 years

just seen one , 4x4 estate , had to take the fuel tank out of it to replace the sender unit and the fuel pump, pig of a job

Well, its now sorted!!!! :D:D

Thought it would never get done. What an arsehole of a job.

Got it all back together, and it was wobbling all over the place - I hadn't ensured the rollers were in place on the intermediate shaft housing/inner cv joint, so had to strip that off again.

Got the exhaust on today, a/c is being regassed tomorrow morning, and its getting a full steering geommetry check/adjust in the afternoon.

Then its just the bodywork to sort - needs a thorough detail throughout, and a few chips touching up etc. Won't be long and it will be faultless.

Decron , i can agree there , i've a couple of oil leaks on the 1.4TDCI recently , another PITA job , the 1.6TDCI is even worse

plastic inlet manifolds moulded together with the rocker cover , ridiculous idea

arent they the PSA engines that ford use??

would explain allot lol!!

Won't be long and it will be faultless.

so it'll be up for sale pretty soon then?

:P

so it'll be up for sale pretty soon then?

:P

:rofl:

No.

Also, if people are sad enough, I've updated my Spritmonitor with everything I've spent on the car. If I was thrown away for £0 now It will have only cost me £0.91 per mile!!! Thats better than the vRS was :P

http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/analysis/271569.html

:rofl:

No.

Also, if people are sad enough, I've updated my Spritmonitor with everything I've spent on the car. If I was thrown away for £0 now It will have only cost me £0.91 per mile!!! Thats better than the vRS was :P

http://www.spritmonitor.de/en/analysis/271569.html

Crikey , and I thought about 35p a mile for my brand new Octavia was bad

Crikey , and I thought about 35p a mile for my brand new Octavia was bad

Crikey , and I thought about 35p a mile for my brand new Octavia was bad

but he's not had it that long, and he's been spending money on it

but he's not had it that long, and he's been spending money on it

I've just worked mine out properly - 27p a mile

but assuming you paid the full £16k(ish) upfront what was the outright cost per mile after say 2 months?

my car which was new on 28th of april stands me @ 2.43 per mile

this includes writing off full purchase price, fuel and mods and insurance. @ 6589 miles.

when its done 20k it will be much much better ppm.

arent they the PSA engines that ford use??

would explain allot lol!!

Yeah, because PSA are well known for making ****e derv engines. I mean the XUD was awful as was the XUDt and nobody ever used it in their cars. The HDI is so bad that there is no way ford, or BMW or any other company would every use it

As earlier, I know someone who's had a Mondeo V6 from new, he's known as an "enthusiastic" driver, and usually gets 33 to 35 mpg. He's one of these people who keeps a log of fuel and mileage too!