Finally got a car..

[Hitty86]

Ford Mondeo Ghia x v6

2.5 v6, all the toy's, leather, front and rear heated screens, aircon, traction control, cruise control, electric seat, cd changer.. and more...

not in bad nick to be honest!.. paid £550 including it being taxed!, needs cleaning inside and out and abit tidying along the bottom sill.. but for £550 i aint gonna complain!.. everything seems to work spot on which i was quite suprised considering the age.. its done 120,000 miles.. now the pics!!..

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/441/sdc11106z.jpg
http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/952/sdc11111r.jpg
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/3553/sdc11110.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1136/sdc11109k.jpg
Lovely car to drive considering its age!.. really comfy! and still goes pretty well ;) .. ohh and the sound of the v6.. mmmm

Sadly on the way home i hit a pothole.. pretty much fooked the alloy hence the spare.. just my luck!! :mad:


Will get some better piccies up 2moro once ive cleaned it properly.. inside and out lol!

p.s..
Laugh all yous want.. i dont care.. :P

[gregwVTS]

well its no Clio Sport or BMW, but it seems in good nick :p . Good luck with it mate :) .

[gregwVTS]

oh and i'm amazed its not got a taped bumper, every Mondeo round here seems to have at least part of the bumper covered in gaffa tape.

[The Legend]

gutted about the alloy! :( glad youve finally got some wheels :) enjoy it...
any plans for it??
alex

[Hitty86]

tidy it up for now, aslong as its clean condition wise i'll probably just run it until i get a job or whatever

not sure about modding it to be honest, But if i feel the need to it would be lowering springs at the top of the list..

[Greg]

No bad that dude!

[Willsta_GT]

Beassssttt, canny believe you wrecked a wheel already !

[Hitty86]

not my fault :( im gonna get intouch with the council though!!

[spudnando]

Neil will be so happy you bought a blue oval :D

[Neil]

THANK GOD!!!!!!!!!!!! ROVER BYE BYE AND HELLO BLUE OVAL :D:D:D

550 for one of them in that model and shape isnt bloody often that theyre so cheap like that mate! usually a 1k car in the saloon shape with the smaller boot.... cracking bargain! v6 engine will pull like a train through all the revs, watch out for sump gaskets leaking on older models and leaky rocker gaskets. service intervals arent that regular but keep on top of it... they'll take a fair whack of punishment them engines and are ripe for some tuning potential just like the BOA cousins of them ;)

body wise, usual area's on mondy's mate. rear arches, boot, if its got a sunroof sometimes round the seals, bottom of doors, sills etc, usual older car traits...

good luck with it mate :D

[Hitty86]

Thanks haha!..
Will be putting more pics up tomorrow

there is some rust starting to appear on the rear arch and round the petrol flap which i plan to get sorted in the future and a little along the sill (just suraface) will probably just treat that and paint them black on both sides over this next week, but other than that its fine.

otherwise the car seem's pretty solid, just needs a few daft little jobs doing!

[Hitty86]

few more pic's after a quick polish.. needs the roof and bumpers doing yet and another coat i recon but it started raining :(

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/1115/sdc11112.jpg
http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/4697/sdc11115y.jpg
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/5339/sdc11116f.jpg

few interior pics :)

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/9992/sdc11117k.jpg
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3319/sdc11121.jpg
http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/9460/sdc11126e.jpg

the engine.. yet to be cleaned..
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/5668/sdc11124v.jpg

its started to get cold as i was taking the pics so there was condensation all over the car :( and no.. i never cleaned the wheels lol!! just took the chance of the last bit of good weather this afternoon and gave the car a quick go over :)

And how's that for a tax disc holder? lmao!!.. will be getting a proper one tommorrow! :)

[MRLACEY]

what has happened to the vrs?

[Hitty86]

Nothing, It mum's car now, has been for the last year or so..

[MRLACEY]

looks like a good buy to me very clean and tidy for age/mileage just hope there's no hiding dangers! i cant help thinking i would probably prefer the skoda though

[Hitty86]

mehh cant have everything lol, it will do me until i can get a job and start looking for another car :)

[Neil]

cmon then, how fast you had it then? :p hahahaha.

cars looking good mate :)

[gregwVTS]

70 :p

[Hitty86]

i cant possibly say on a public forum... although it did cane my mates Primera GT..

atm i cant get anything above 70!!.. exhaust is shot and clogged up with its own fibre's...

[Hitty86]

Sound...... yes i was bored!! lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apL-rNJVtIg

[The Legend]

tasty for standard. loving the traction control light

[Hitty86]

Anyone think this is repairable?..
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/417/sdc11135.jpg
http://img63.imageshack.us/img63/8117/sdc11134w.jpg
http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4574/sdc11136.jpg

the inside looks fine..

[ecostorm2]

er in a word ... no! must have rattled your car a bit. i'd forget bout the wheel for now and check the tracking etc on car.

nice looking car you got for that price! v clean!

[Hitty86]

just abit, think the tyre was down abit too as the rear one survived and my dads car which has 18" alloys on it followed me over it lol,

Tracking got checked today was slightly out anyways as there is slight wear on the inside of the tyre on the passenger side

[ecostorm2]

main thing is you havent damaged your steering! could of been much worse!

i hit a pothole in my old c2 so hard it jammed my cd in the cd player!

[gemmiella]

ouch.

my alloy looked similar to that on the outside, but not on the inside too =[ bad times, hope you get it sorted

x x x

[Hitty86]

lol well..

picked these up tonight, 16" alloys, will be fitting them tomorrow along with the new exhaust

they will be going silver as soon as i get the chance to do them,
http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/5584/sdc11141.jpg

all 4 with great tyre's set me back £100 .. someones done a poor job of spraying them but like i say they wont be staying black anyways :)

[Hitty86]

well alloys on, exhaust done.. pics..

http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/9830/sdc11142l.jpg
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/7844/sdc11143.jpg
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/3079/sdc11145h.jpg

yes it's filthy bla bla bla :)

[gregwVTS]

can it push 75mph now? :p

[Hitty86]

lmao!! yes now and then... i found out its the imrc or something its gets hot.. needs to be relocated or heat wrapped.... tomorrows job :)

[Neil]

sorry but whoever things that wheel isnt repairable is clueless about alloys..

ive seen alloys split in 3 places repaired mate, its sometimes expensive but thats an easy fix mate! not sure about round your way but a place called MAGMA do them up here and they come back as good as new!

[Hitty86]

i can now go fast again! hehe.. Cable tie's FTW! temp repair of course but it was the IMRC (Inlet Manifold Runner Control) getting way to hot under heavy load.. common fault so it will be battery out at the weekend and relocate it properly, im just glad i found out what it was!