I bought a HIGH MILEAGE Ford Mondeo for £150! TO SCRAP OR SAVE?
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- čas přidán 26. 07. 2024
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Love these kind of videos. Always fix it if you can. Not all of us can afford to spend thousands on a decent motor! These old bangers still have some life left in them!👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks Stuart. Glad you enjoyed it!
My dad had one of these with 218k then was written off, never gave any issues...oil was changed every 5k miles, and was still clean when changed, even at 212k!
Hearing lots of similar stories, hopefully we can save it 🤞
Hi just subscribed, I rescued a silver Mondeo 1.8 back in 2016 ,she had 180.000 miles on the clock and 5 previous owners! I had to replace 10 different things on her and I ended up spending a fortune! Reg No. also began with ND03! Even though she cost me a fortune I ended up falling in love with her! But in the end it wasn’t financially viable to keep spending money on her. So I applied for credit and got a Fiesta, but while I was waiting for a decision I found myself secretly hoping that I would be turned down! It’s crazy how you feel about certain cars that come and go. Great video too.
Thanks for the Sub! I bet that’s the way a lot of these Mondeos went, the owner loved using it but at some point the Ford engineering or rust protection let them down and it just wasn’t viable any more!
I was looking for that shhhhhhing noise on mine too, same engine and year, found eventually that the rubbery type gasket to cover the hole through the bulkhead where the brake pedal goes through was perished and fallen off. Pushed it back and taped it back in place and the noise went away. It’s fallen off again but such is life. I just live with the noise now haha! Good vid!
Haha. I’ll have to check that out! Thanks
The front end of the car reminds me of my 2005 Ford Focus ZX5 SES that I used to have. That car was fun to drive. Now I drive a 2020 Ford Escape SE in black for a little bit over 7 months.
Its a nice colour headlights are nice and clear i need one of those wheel trims for mine give it a bit of TLC
I bought a Ford Mondeo 1.8 from 1998 in 2018 for 900 euros. it drives great, like a tank. never broken.
👍Put it back on the road, nice cheap car for someone😊, I just saved a very nice 1998 2.0LX manual in white.
We’ll do our best, depends what the mot check comes up with 🤷♂️
I’m a recent subscriber and am loving your content so hope you don’t mind me going off topic and saying how beautiful is your passenger in this video🐾🐾
Thanks! 🐕
Aktually I drive (nearly) exactly the same car in black and with a 1.8 machine from 2002. I bought him with 176k km last year, now it drove 196k km.
A nice robust simple limousine and it make a lot of fun to drive with it, although it's not the sportiest.. But fat and track safe. 💪💪
Nice, hopefully it serves you as long as most peoples seem to!
Use to take taxi to school nearly always this generation of Mondeo member broke down once I've also owned a 03 plate not sure what spec tho but it did have screens in head rest and outlets for things like a playstation and so on I loved it
That sounds awesome to be fair!
This brings back memories, i had a 2003 zetec 1.8 petrol mondeo which the exact same colour as this, car started chugging one day thought it was just a faulty coil but my mechanic sadly told me the engine was knackered, only 88 thousand miles were on the clock, sadly i scrapped it , i really loved that mondeo
😢 wanna buy this one? 😁
@@ShiftingMetal I mite for the rite price depending on where your located
@chris jones spot on, it was an issue with the piston rings
Yeah mate it’s a interesting view
Thanks Tony
This is great if it can be saved and make yourself a decent profit .
We’ll certainly do our best, stay tuned!
SAAAAVVVEEE. The mk3 mondeo must live in the modern world.
Haha, we’ll do our best!
quick cars those, same engine as the early fiesta 2.0 st. listen for ticking coming from the inlet manifold as the swirl flap rod can break and get ingested into the engine
I’ll check that out, can’t say I noticed it being quick but maybe I’ll do a 0-60 test in the next video 😁
There is a windows app for the radio code, you will have to pull the radio and get the serial number. I would say it’s worth cleaning up and selling.
Thanks. I think the app I had should work but like you say, I’ll have to get the radio out to get the full serial number 👍
Make that 11 new subscribers. Save the old mondeo. That'll do someone else for a couple of years. Good content and I like your style. Looking forward to seeing how the old car turns out.
Thanks Mike, glad to have you on board! 👍
@@ShiftingMetal just watched the first civic type r high mileage fn2 video. Have you done more content on that ?
Yes there’s 3 videos so far, I think and another on the way in the next few weeks 👍
You got me subbed yah
Thanks man, welcome aboard!
Running a 2003 1.8 petrol estate at 447k km as of today. Rock solid car, even though DEFINITELY worn at this Point.
Wow, need to reach 500,000 for sure!
Your fan noise will be the interior temp sensor fan……. Look to the left of the steering wheel and you’ll spot a small grill. There’s a small fan behind it
Thanks Tom, I will definitely check that out!
I know this is probably not relevant now, but there should be a plastic card inside that black folder with the owner's manual in it, with the keycode on it. There has been on all the Mondeos I've owned.
Purchase price often doesn’t have any relation to a cars condition. It is can be just a case of the owner wants to move it on. 6 years ago I purchased a GMH 2003 Statesman. Which is a stretched luxury version of their standard car. i.e. Cruise Control, Climate Control, electric seats. V6 . Developing 230 bhp . With excellent automatic gearing at 100 klm per hour is doing 1600 revs. Giving 7.5 litres per 100 klm. (31.5 mpg) had done 300,000 klm when purchase now 350,000 klm. Still runs like a sewing machine. Of course No rust being in Australia. Lol. So there are gems around. The old chap too I purchased it from was offered $1000 as a trade in at a dealer. Took umbrage. I bought it for $500.
That noise is the brake servo!!, the rubbers have gone in it!! (thats if somebody else hasent pointed it out yet!) lol.
Thanks, we’ll check that out!
I’m still running a 2.0 L Ghia from 2001. Had it 18 years, It’s all up together, but needs a clutch. To do or not to do, I reckon there’s a couple or three years in it yet. Followed…
Definitely do it!
I’m still undecided, but likely I’ll get it done. It’s big old job isn’t it, getting the rear sub-frame bolts off is an area of concern, so that’s putting me off, but we’ll see…😊
Hi, if the seatbeltwarner annoys you just push the releasebutton, works on my mondeo... :D
Thanks! Do you have to hold it?
@@ShiftingMetal No, i just have to push it in once. Its a pretty cool car, would like to see it saved. These cars have some nice features to them. The analog clock, the cool cupholder, sunglass compartment in the roof. Massive trunkspace, if you grab behind the backseatbench you can pull it forward so the seats can fold all the way down. I saw you even have a button for the heated windshield. I even have an AUX port in the glovebox...
For your radiocode problem: If you didnt get the code yet, just go to a Ford dealership, they can check that out for you. If you want to save time you can pull out the Radio and take a picture of the sticker where the serial number and so are on, they might not even charge you anything for the work then :)
If the auto locking function is programmed in, it can get pretty annoying when you start driving and it suddenly locks itself. You can progamm that out without any tool, there is a squence you can google to turn it off, or even on if you are interested...
Idk if that would be your kind of content, but you could do a little series on how to clean an older car, make it look nice again, fix some minor issues and maybe sell it for a profit... :)
When it comes to the wing mirror, they come in pre facelift and facelift, they are different sizes and come in 8 and 10 pin versions
And yes, you have to remove the door card to change it
Damn, I’ve already bought a replacement so I hope I got the right one 🤷♂️😅
@@ShiftingMetal you could be lucky 👍
I look forward to the update
For the money I'd say its worth tidying it up abit, fresh MOT and send her on down the road.
Sounds like a release bearing on the clutch noise front. Can last half hour, can last an eternity it's luck of the drawer really
We will certainly see what we can do 👍
Could be the belt tensioner !!! I had a mk3 for 12 yrs great car👍👍👍👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 There not crappie!!!!
Haha, crappy meant affectionately! Like I say, Mondeos are great cars!
@@ShiftingMetal if the clutch pedal is above the brake pedal its not the clutch !!! It could be the clutch release bearing , therefore you can drive the car for years.....
Like the mk 4 not keen on mk 3
There's lots of Mondeos with false mileage on the road, they were clocked as a matter of course. Diesels were mostly targeted just before the first mot. It's still happening.
Hopefully this one isn’t one of them 😅
Haha John got himself a new motor with 30k on the clock but its really 230k
@@bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 I tried to buy a 4 year old Zetec S from a car supermarket. Had great mileage but didn't seem as smart as it should be, but they'd forgot to take the service book out of the glove box showing the real mileage. They gave me my deposit back, but never changed the add. Eventually I did by a clocked one as I got fed up looking, it's still in the family showing a bogus 190K 16 years later.
Wish I never scrapped my mk3 2.0 estate. Had rose tinted glasses for the Rover 75 diesel auto, and while a nice car, pretty much same mpg as the mondeo petrol around town. So going to scrap the rover and find another mk3 petrol estate manual.
Don't scrap the Rover they are getting rarer by the day 😭
Had one this colour Caymen blue I think..?
Mine was a 1.8LXTD 1994 77.000 miles.. I had it back in 2003..
Since I had 03 Graphite 1.8 and then a Mondeo Titanium 2.2 TDCI 55 PLATE..
My worst Mondeo was my first a 1995 N registered 1.8 LX automatic I lost a load of cash on it..
Which was the best?
Wing mirrors are mounted on the wings, door mirrors are mounted on the doors. Not sure how people confuse them.
Wing mirror is generalized term to cover both.. Either way, it's too early on a Monday morning to be this pedantic Gary 😅
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You can keep these mondeos running. It's always a toss up between spend and reliability. You need 2 cars for when it's off the road, so the cost of another car vs getting a newish one caused me to get rid of mine.
Yeah true but I think the MOT is the biggest issue with these old Mondeos, they’re pretty reliable on the whole it seems
Check the computer code history, check underneath then clean it, a nsf door from fleabay a 12 month ticket and flog it. Even if only a couple of months ticket there are always folks like me wanting a cheap shed, nothing fancy, just basically reliable, not stupidly expensive to run, and an old mondeo fits the bill. On an 03 it may even be ULEZ compliant which increases the potential market if you are anywhere close to the capital (or other such zones)
Thats a low mileage for an old mondeo really, or anything of that age, many clock that up before they reach ten years old, my mk4 has just turned 11 and has 190k on. 10k a year means it should be pushing 190k or more. For wipers, they are only a couple of quid, or it may just be a filthy screen. Seat belt binger is on a timer and will repeat every few mins on my mk4. I only know that because my son-in-law is a moron
Getting it resold is a no-brainer, its also the "green" option. Heck, put it on ebay at 250 as is and you will get buyers I bet
All very true. We will do our best to keep it alive!
If you press red button on seat belt it stops the warning sound, also I wouldn't class 130k as high miles on a car of that age.
Ah ok, and hold it down? No, not age wise but for most people anything over 100k is high mileage. It’s probably double that for my standards! 😂
@@ShiftingMetal no you don't need to hold it down, you just press it once and warning sound will stop and seat belt warning light will flash.
It's just a quick way of silencing it if your only moving car around garage.
what watch are you wearing? looks lovely
Thanks. It’s an old Tag Heuer 1000 (jubilee bracelet). They’re not hugely expensive but I love the look of them
@@ShiftingMetal yeah, i thought it was a tag, did a close up of the clasp haha. That gold and silver jubilee is beautiful
Problem is its a pre facelift and its petrol
The diesel models of these do go well and and are a lot more relaible
The LX model is also the most basic spec you can get
With a full MOT its probably worth a good £800 to someone who needs a car of this size
The petrols are more reliable then the diesels. 1.8 &2.0 engines are great
I think a Mondeo with 12 months MoT should be worth £800-900 to someone , even though it is absolute base spec 😂
Agreed, I’ve had nothing but issues with 1.6 and 1.8 TDCi engines!
That's also my opinion. Best engines. No Problems. And if... You fix that and you have peace for a long time.
Make this car have st220 style
Haha, that would be cool, but not sure it’s worth the effort
These cars run forever, 130k is barely run in for a mondeo
Vote to save! There aren’t many Mk III Mondeos lefts.
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Mileage guess: 161,800
Is it still available or it's not for sale
Sorry, it’s been scrapped now!
here me with my 2006 1.8 Mondeo thinking 94000 wasn't that high then i see u called 130000 high mileage
Haha, I don’t think it’s that high but to some anything over 100k is high
clutch is on its vvay out
You reckon? You think that’s the noise I heard?
@@ShiftingMetal my V6 does this. Rev it when it’s not in gear and see if it still makes the noise, the gearbox is on the other side so it shouldn’t be the clutch
@@ShiftingMetal thrust bearing?
@@lucythemoggy1970 could be I suppose but it seems to be noisy the other way around than normal, ie thrust bearing is normally noisy when your foot is on the clutch and not when off, this is other way around 🤔 That probably means nothing though 😅 so good shout
Box mite need Oil…
Could get arrested selling a car for that much 😂😅😅😂
Call the police 👮♂️ 😂
Scrap it
to save? it's awful so plz don't save it
130k miles isn’t high
Depends who you ask.. I’d agree, especially due to the age. Ask my other half and anything over 40,000 miles is ‘high’ and is about to blow up 😅
Dear me. Half way through. On to the next. Sorry.
Bye Gary, hope you’re ok mate ✌️