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cully's New boat! - cully - 03-04-2016

as the daily died i needed something to drive to work as the 6 would get a bit expensive,
so i took the opportunity to change to a bigger bus as i need to tow a caravan to Sussex this weekend

so here it is....
2ltr TDCI 130

   

so plans.....
oil and filters drive it to work for a week
if it lasts the week its towing to Sussex on Saturday morning 210 miles with a caravan 420 miles round trip

further plans will be made Monday the 9th if it returns under its own power Big Grin

RE: cully's New boat! - 1616six - 03-04-2016

Injectors.

cully's New boat! - bashbarnard - 03-04-2016

(03-04-2016, 07:02 AM)JJ0063 Wrote: Injectors.


Second this.

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 03-04-2016

instead of saying injectors care to expand your comment a little ?

RE: cully's New boat! - 1616six - 03-04-2016

Injectors often die.

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 03-04-2016

so i need to get to get software and a cable and learn how to program second hand ones Wink

RE: cully's New boat! - 1616six - 03-04-2016

'Spose.

Nice taxi anyway.

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 03-04-2016

work taxi Wink

cully's New boat! - Frosty - 03-04-2016

Christ guys always look straight to the negatives.

I know the car and it shouldn't be a bad bus. Cheap car at the end of the day.

RE: cully's New boat! - Toms306 - 03-04-2016

(03-04-2016, 07:48 AM)JJ0063 Wrote: Nice taxi anyway.

From an ex-Vectra owner? Tongue Rear calipers and springs seem to breaking more often than injectors now. Not that any of that is hard or expensive to replace. Think you can recode injectors with FORScan anyway which is free. http://forscan.org/

Nice Jag X type in a Mondeo bodykit... Big Grin

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 03-04-2016

LOL @ frosty as his name is on the last MOT sheet!

Cheap purchase runaround that was the intention

RE: cully's New boat! - Eeyore - 03-04-2016

well... i guess it does the job. Just not very inspiring.

RE: cully's New boat! - Magenta Sunset - 03-04-2016

and I was thinking you'd bought something that floats :/

cully's New boat! - Frosty - 03-04-2016

(03-04-2016, 08:57 AM)cully Wrote: LOL @ frosty as his name is on the last MOT sheet!

Cheap purchase runaround that was the intention


Haha we did wonder if you would notice

RE: cully's New boat! - Dum-Dum - 03-04-2016

I like the mondildos. If you compare them to a vectra they are incredible.

RE: cully's New boat! - Jonny81191 - 03-04-2016

They're good cars if the engine has been looked after TBH, just not very inspiring.

RE: cully's New boat! - THE_Liam - 03-04-2016

Decent cars, thought you'd have got a 406 though if you were after something like that. Can't kill mine!

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 03-04-2016

went out to fit an EGR blank plate, and there was already one in there! LOL
the one in there was made of steal and quit corroded so replaced it with the nice stainless one i made.

battery died when i left work earlier had to push start the heavy thing!
seems someone had fitted a leisure battery instead of a cranking type car battery,
so swapped the battery from the HDI and fitted a new air filter and a handfull of lamps to the rear clusters

also seams to have a clonk in the rear i suspect its a droplink sounding off
will investigate that one at some point.

any more surprises to expect Frosty??

RE: cully's New boat! - Frosty - 03-04-2016

Cant remember tbh, done a few mot's since then.

RE: cully's New boat! - bashbarnard - 03-04-2016

to be fair they arent that bad but we see so many injectors in at work failing i do only see the negatives. apart from that its one of the better fords from this era

RE: cully's New boat! - allye - 03-04-2016

These and the jags suffer with rear bushes, which that sounds like.

As other have said, if the HP pump and injectors don't die they are really decent cars. My dads one get over 40mog towing a caravan!

RE: cully's New boat! - Ruan - 03-04-2016

Knowing the previous owner's son... Baler twine is order of the day!!

RE: cully's New boat! - Piggy - 03-04-2016

Injectors, egr and dmf are the only issues I know of with these...
Drive well tbh. Boots are huge too

RE: cully's New boat! - Paul_13 - 03-04-2016

My uncle had one, the list of faults are :

3 snapped coil springs (they're prone to going)

Injectors failed (tell tail sign is the glow plug light starts flashing under acceleration) £800 with recon injectors

PAS pump pulley failed

Starter motor, followed by DMF

Blocked dpf regularly
Turbos prone to clogging up and need stripping and cleaning

RE: cully's New boat! - lolsteve - 04-04-2016

Old housemate had one of these. Is it the 130 that have the 6 speed box?

Despite it being a weird urine yellow colour and leaking badly whenever it rained (all the silicone sealant and ford themselves couldn't get it to stop) the car was a trooper. Run on a student budget so very little care given but kept on going.

Was a very comfy and easy car to drive as well despite it's size. Have very much considered a ST TDCI version for a daily

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 04-04-2016

yes 130 with a 6 speed cruises on the motorway at 2000rpm sipping the diesel

RE: cully's New boat! - bigcheez2k3 - 04-04-2016

Is the 2.0 much different to the 2.2?

As Dad's ST was pretty much fine the whole time he had it (5 years). We did have to change the EGR but compared to what everyone is listing in here, it was no bother.

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 04-04-2016

been out playing well fixing bits
i now have full working central locking Smile
including the boot lock/unlock from the key and from within the cabin via dash switch
all doors and no door warning lights on the dash!

the clonking is not the drop-link it is the strut top mount
there seems to be a loose section of plastic in the centre which i think is part of the inner of the spring seat guide that holds the dust cover boot
i can live with that now i know its nothing serious
may look at changing it before the MOT.

I've found and changed the pollen filter
just started to look at the reverse light problem looks to be the gearbox switch so il order one of them too

cant believe how much bigger than the 306 it is
it is taking some getting used too

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 10-04-2016

the car has played a blinder all weekend!

hitched up the caravan left home at 12:00 on Saturday arrived at site after two stops on route
unloaded, and sited van set kayley for the night then went and found out premier inn Smile

sunday was sorting the van electrics ect going into town to sort some last bits then around 5-6pm we set off home leaving kayley too it

M23-M25-M4-M5-home just got in the door at 22:00
total of 530 miles half with a caravan on the back I must admit the Mondeo is a comfy old beast for that sort of miles
need to fill the fuel to work the mileage out as we used just over a tank of fuel

Smile

RE: cully's New boat! - cully - 20-05-2016

looks like the mondeo is staying for 12months!

failed its mot on a loose strut pinch bolt!

done it up in front of the tester while on the mot ramp

passed with two advisory s
tyre near limit 2mm
drive shaft gator holed