Who owns a Mondeo ST220 / ST TDCI?

Howard · 14 Apr 2015 at 22:51

Aviva. It was about £320. Exhaust didn't cost any extra. Excellent company to deal with and by far the cheapest for me.

Howard · 15 Apr 2015 at 08:52

Bargain!

Just goes to show that there's literally no point in comparing insurance prices with other people on the internet I suppose!

Howard · 15 Apr 2015 at 20:09

I made some ramps of my own out of wood. They're a shallower entry than regular metal ones and even they just went under. You'll probably have to drive onto a couple of planks of wood as well.

Howard · 15 Apr 2015 at 20:25

You need a decent Jack

my cheapy Halfords one couldn't get high enough either but I think my low entry Sealey Jack could probably flip the car over

Howard · 5 May 2015 at 19:24

Indeed, those awful photographs don't do it any favours but it's pretty much stock besides the wheels and rather bizarre choice of front number plate placement.

Howard · 20 May 2015 at 22:13

The black rubber strips on the outside? Looks like Ford part number 1305443 and 1305444.

Howard · 21 May 2015 at 08:15

If you're talking about the plastic strip that the arrows are pointing to (excuse my shoddy mspaint work):

Then I should imagine they just pull off?

It's number 4:

And presumably clips in to number 5.

I'm not 100 per cent sure though - See if it pulls off perhaps.

Howard · 23 May 2015 at 17:52

That's not the first time I've heard of the top mounts wearing out, and on its last MOT mine had an advisory for 'slight movement in the top mount'.

Howard · 30 May 2015 at 20:13

I would stick a fresh MOT on it, service it, and sell it privately. You'll probably get twice the part-ex value for it.

Howard · 16 Jun 2015 at 13:48

If you find a facelift with nav, it's a bit more modern. Externally, the bumpers and grille are different and the facelift has DRLs, indicators in the mirrors, and LED brake lights. Internally it's basically what you've already mentioned and a slightly different instrument cluster. Yes, the 2.0 Ecoboost engine gets an extra 40bhp with the facelift but you can remap the prefacelift to that level anyway. There isn't a great deal of difference otherwise. I'd probably rather have a fully loaded prefacelift over a lesser-spec facelift.

Howard · 16 Jun 2015 at 13:55

Dav4 said:
It's kinda threw me off what to do now as I was going to put it for sale this week to get the Focus 225.

Other than the fact you get a turbocharged engine which has more tunability, that wouldn't really be an upgrade.

Howard · 26 Jun 2015 at 22:30

The JP is no louder when cruising but it's a fair bit louder overall when accelerating etc and makes some lovely cracks and burbles. Go for that IMHO, it just seems better engineered than the Miltek.

Howard · 27 Jun 2015 at 08:53

Ford's what?

JP has twin pipes to the centre, most other aftermarkets are single pipe straight from the downpipe

Howard · 27 Jun 2015 at 09:11

I miss the noise

Howard · 16 Jul 2015 at 13:31

Dav4 said:
now I have mine up at 2.9k not even one phone call it's one of the cheapest on there and also probably in far better condition than 90% for sale. My leather recaro's are like new

BoozerDawg said:
Back on the hunt for one of these again (finally sorted out job/pay shenanigans so can easily afford one again, woohoo !). Kind of frustrating watching various ST220's be available nearby and not being able to dive on them the past couple of months :'( Looks like a lot more of them are going for reasonable prices now (£3K - £3.5K). Just a matter of time until one drops that I'm after.

Is it me or is the solution to these two problems obvious...

Howard · 17 Jul 2015 at 14:10

That looks awesome.

Howard · 17 Jul 2015 at 14:23

I reckon you should keep it. Other than a little bit more turbo grunt I reckon the Focus will feel like a downgrade.

Howard · 23 Jul 2015 at 12:37

Just buy Dav4's car ffs

Howard · 4 Aug 2015 at 13:17

I could get 35-37mpg at a steady 70mph.

Howard · 4 Aug 2015 at 17:00

Dav4 said:
I swear I've never had over 26.2 mpg despite the fact I'm on the motorway for 80% of my journey to work it's currently at 25.3 lol.
What can contribute to poor mpg as even though I drive with my foot planted at all times it still should not be that bad for near all motorway driving!
I check my tyre pressure once a week and had it serviced only 10k after the last one so what else can make the mpg so bad?
Oh and it's not looking good for selling my car I've only got 4 days left of the 28 day classified and no interest in the last 2 weeks apart from a woman asking will I take 2k as she thought it would be a nice upgrade to her 2.0 Mondeo that needs replacing it's up for 2.8k and already the cheapest 2004 for sale!

Depends on what you mean by 'driving with your foot planted at all times' - this doesn't tend to correlate with good fuel economy!

I could get pretty good economy from mine just by driving sensibly and reading the road ahead and such. No point in 'planting my foot all the time' in the heavy traffic trudge to work and back. 70mph on the motorway at a constant speed (not always mashing my foot up to 80-90mph for overtakes or whatever) would get me at least 35mpg.

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