Who owns a Mondeo ST220 / ST TDCI?

Imy · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:01

Found a new set on ebay for £820:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-Genui...arts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item53fc975719

They got quite a few in stock.

Again, deducting cost of centre caps, that brings it down to about £760.

Howard · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:02

Still gonna cost you a couple of hundred by the time you've sold the other wheels and paid for the remap, and the extra faff, and the fact I think a standard painted finish looks better than the diamond-cut finish

Imy · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:11

If anything, less faff with getting new alloys as you can just take them to a local tyre fitter to get them swapped over. A lot of tyre refurb places I've seen aren't drive in/out and if they are, it's usually an all day job so quite inconvenient if not close by.

Remap?

Yes of course it'll cost more, but you got new alloys at the end of it.

This is of course only a consideration if you plan to spend around £400 on a refurb.

Howard · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:29

Refurb, not remap

Imy · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:43

Why would you have to pay for a refurb if buying new ones?

Howard · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:45

I have no idea. Let me re-align my brain with my fingers for a second.

OK £900 on new wheels, old ones are worth potentially what £2-300? So it's going to cost £6-700. It's a lot to pay for convenience.

Imy · 27 Sep 2013 at 15:55

It's £760 for new alloys (after deducting cost of new caps which you'll want with a refurb also) so £560 if you get £200 for old set.

So IF you were considering dropping £400 on a premium refurb, another £160-ish would get you a new set instead. I'm not sure I'd go for it - but would give it serious thought.

DogsBody · 27 Sep 2013 at 16:26

Imy said:
It's £760 for new alloys (after deducting cost of new caps which you'll want with a refurb also) so £560 if you get £200 for old set.

So IF you were considering dropping £400 on a premium refurb, another £160-ish would get you a new set instead. I'm not sure I'd go for it - but would give it serious thought.

But if you were going to drop £400 on a refurb surely you wouldn't get the face diamond cut based on experience, therefore refurb>buying new

(IMO of course

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Makhaira · 27 Sep 2013 at 17:47

Found some pictures of the wheels!

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f141/ajax87/P1010023.jpg

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f141/ajax87/P1010027.jpg

I'd spray painted the centre caps so they matched (2nd photo, not first). Lesson learnt - I should have put some sort of protective lacquer on them as the first time I put the pressure washer near them the paint came off. Not that obvious though, so no great harm done!

Rybo89 · 27 Sep 2013 at 17:49

To me, the centre caps show up like a sore thumb on both.

Makhaira · 27 Sep 2013 at 17:53

That's only down to my paint matching skills

. It's practically invisible in real life, I'm a lousy photographer! Oh, and they would be very obvious on the first one, since they're not painted at all there.

Vita · 27 Sep 2013 at 18:35

Clayed, waxed and polished. The clay hardly picked anything up on the top half of the bodywork. Come the doors and down the bottom that's where it really started picking stuff up. The swirls have gone and now all I'm left with is fine scratches, polished them but didn't really shift them. Tried T-Cut didn't really help, think a machine polish will do the trick.

tummelv · 27 Sep 2013 at 20:53

Got a squeaky clutch pedal on my mondeo. Any ideas? Dad tried lubricant on the spring, doesn't seem to have done much.

R220 · 27 Sep 2013 at 22:16

tummelv said:
Got a squeaky clutch pedal on my mondeo. Any ideas? Dad tried lubricant on the spring, doesn't seem to have done much.

if its not the support spring then it will be at the pivot shaft, best thing to do is remove the pedal and grease up the pivot point/shaft. Meaning to do mine for a while now, although lately is gone quiet

Makhaira · 28 Sep 2013 at 08:45

I get that from time to time too. How big a job is it to strip down, and what would you use to grease? Just a bit of thick axle grease or equivalent?

Howard · 28 Sep 2013 at 09:05

I had it recently a bit too, a little "eek" when I lifted the pedal after changing gear, until I realised that it only seemed to do it when it was wet and I was wearing particular shoes, so I concluded that it was the shoes squeaking and not the pedal, lol.

tummelv · 28 Sep 2013 at 15:25

R220 said:
if its not the support spring then it will be at the pivot shaft, best thing to do is remove the pedal and grease up the pivot point/shaft. Meaning to do mine for a while now, although lately is gone quiet

My dad gave it another go this afternoon and it seems to have done the job - fingers crossed.

Also whenever my clock's minute hands moves one place it makes a loud squeak/scratching noise. Anyone else have this? Not sure how I'd fix it except for getting a new one.

edit: When I push and hold the button to change the time the minute hand whirrs fairly loudly. Not sure if this is normal?

Howard · 28 Sep 2013 at 19:50

My clock is audible when it's quiet but it's not nearly loud enough to bother me lol

tummelv · 28 Sep 2013 at 20:57

Perhaps I should get a video of me adjusting the time then.

See if it's as loud as yours.

Howard · 29 Sep 2013 at 08:39

Lol go for it. I don't hear the clock when I'm driving around but if I'm sitting in the car with the engine off and no music on, I'll hear a little "erk" as the minutes tick by. After taking the clock out when removing the silver trim to wrap it, I don't get the impression that it's the highest quality timepiece Ford could have sourced