http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showforum.php?fid/18/For chatting about cars, and motoring, in general.en-gbThu, 29 Jul 2010 22:15:02 GMTThu, 29 Jul 2010 22:15:02 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssFusionBB 2.2 (www.fusionbb.com)http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840958/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840958/Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:57:53 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840952/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840952/ (oops, I just swore) it

just wrote my car off

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its scary to see what can happen. what if it was a lam p post?? ]]>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:32:49 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840891/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840891/
We've had brand new lease cars in the family and then the MK2 Mondeo for about five years.

All in all including buying it five years ago and then replacing things like the aircon radiator, thermostat housing, cv joint, pads and discs, new CAT, self servicing and MOTS etc, it's cost has been about £3800.

So about £760 a year to buy and maintain.

Whats's your preference?

I can see the benefit of both ways. Newer is suppose to be less hassle, older is cheaper. Anyone do both? Anyone switched from one method to another.

I haven't included tax and insurance, just ownership costs ]]>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 19:26:04 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840850/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840850/ i want a real mag!! ]]>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:19:30 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840845/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840845/http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&am... ]]>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:16:55 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840796/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840796/

Recently I reserved a car on the Autoquake.com website. As I am in Aberdeen and the car was in Leeds I decided to get the RAC to do a full vehicle inspection on it before I decided to complete the sale.

I'm not going to tell anyone what they should do but I thought that if they came on to this site before buying then the report that I got would be useful so hopefully here it is.

Just for a bit more info I spoke to the RAC Mechanic who did the Inspection and going by what he said the car will probably need anything up to £1500 spent on it to check the air conditioning and tidy up the rest of the bits, but it is a nice drive. ]]>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:27:24 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840792/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840792/ ]]>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:50:36 GMThttp://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840778/http://www.fordmondeo.org/forum/showtopic.php?tid/840778/
Seen some part worn dunlops at a nice price but they're 215/40/17 with a load rating of 83. Tyre shopper says I need 87 but I thought I'd check here. ]]>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:10:28 GMT