So who has ordered the new S550 Mustang?
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I am so worried about them fitting the number plate brackets, I have told the salesman twice verbally and by email, that if they drill a single hole in my car I will reject it before paying my balance.
I have told him to put the brackets in the boot with a note on them not to fit.
Cannot do anymore.
Still not confident, as up to now they have been a bit s
te.
Mark
I have told him to put the brackets in the boot with a note on them not to fit.
Cannot do anymore.
Still not confident, as up to now they have been a bit s
te. Mark
djc206 said:
Yep it is. I emailed them a couple of days ago and said don't register it until the 1st march and they responded same day but they've not initiated any contact since I ordered in June.
Ehh, I dunno how desperate you are for the car, but if you're going to wait until 1st March, you might as well wait until 1st April and save yourself £375/yr in road tax.ad13 said:
Ehh, I dunno how desperate you are for the car, but if you're going to wait until 1st March, you might as well wait until 1st April and save yourself £375/yr in road tax.
I've worked it out it's more expensive. The first year costs a lot more under the new scheme and I won't be keeping the car more than 2 years in all likelihood. kwarden2004 said:
My Magnetic Grey Mustang has arrived. The time line was: ordered mid September, scheduled build in Flat Rock mid November, on the boat just before Christmas, arrived in Zeebrugge 3rd January, at my Edinburgh dealer now. I'm going in tomorrow to sort out the bumpf and am thinking 1st March to drive it away. Mine is an Ecoboost which is not so lumpy on the VED and it's pretty marginal over 5 years and after that is too far away to worry. I am totally happy with the Ecoboost as I want it as my main car for many years, want to take it to historic track locations (Monaco, Reims, Spa, Rouen, Clermont Ferrand, Le Mans) +_Festival of Speed and Goodwood Revival. It just makes more sense for me and I've had a noisy car before, Pontiac Transam back in 82 when I was 28, single, abroad and it was a bargain and more recently a 911 with a dodgy sports exhaust (now that was a racket) so the V8 experience has been done, although I can totally see the attraction of the 5.0. There's a great Youtube of a guy testing the Ecoboost for fuel economy (and the 5.0) and I have absolutely no hang-ups with the Ecoboost. I'll be hyper-miling it locally and letting it rip on road-trips. Seems fine by me.
Waiting times must be coming down quite considerably. I ordered my Ecoboost mid October with an estimated delivery date of May/June. I asked my dealer to keep hold of it a couple more months and register it as a 67 Mustang! He contacted me on Monday and said the car will be here in two weeks! Oh well, my 67 will be a 17! Not too disappointed as the wait until September was starting to grate on me! Kind of excited now! Jumturbo said:
Waiting times must be coming down quite considerably. I ordered my Ecoboost mid October with an estimated delivery date of May/June. I asked my dealer to keep hold of it a couple more months and register it as a 67 Mustang! He contacted me on Monday and said the car will be here in two weeks! Oh well, my 67 will be a 17! Not too disappointed as the wait until September was starting to grate on me! Kind of excited now!
Mines arrived! Went to the dealer today to sign the forms and will be picking up on March the 4th just in time for the 17 reg. My car was at the front of a row of 5 Mustangs that came over. Two Ecoboosts (including mine) and three GTs. Not long now hey! First mod will be trying my 20" wheels. These have an ET35 offset so will give 10mm more track each side.
Quinny said:
Just to clarify, mine are
19 x 10. 35. Front..... I'm running 275/35
&
19 x 11. 50 Rear..... I'm running 295/35
I think the standard GT rears are 9.5" wide with ET52.5 offset. Yours actually give 20mm more on the wheel and 10mm on the tyre. That's 30mm nearer to the arch! Mine will only be 10mm as mine are the same width wheel and tyre with just an extra 10mm in the offset19 x 10. 35. Front..... I'm running 275/35
&
19 x 11. 50 Rear..... I'm running 295/35
Jumturbo said:
I think the standard GT rears are 9.5" wide with ET52.5 offset. Yours actually give 20mm more on the wheel and 10mm on the tyre. That's 30mm nearer to the arch! Mine will only be 10mm as mine are the same width wheel and tyre with just an extra 10mm in the offset
Doesn't that mean his rears would be poking out, doesn't look like it from the photos. I say that as I have 25mm spacers on standard alloys and tyres and its just about level with the wheel arch.
-Z- said:
Doesn't that mean his rears would be poking out, doesn't look like it from the photos.
I say that as I have 25mm spacers on standard alloys and tyres and its just about level with the wheel arch.
Well if Quinny's rears are 11" wide, that's 1.5" wider that the standard 9.5! 1.5" for arguments sake is 38mm wider. This means 19mm further in and 19mm further out. The standard offset of the 9.5" rims is ET52.5. Quinny says his are ET50 which give an extra 2.5mm further out. That equates to 21.5mm nearer the arch. His tyres are 20mm wider than standard, so that's 10mm further out. Overall wheel and tyre is therefore 31.5mm further out over the standard GT.I say that as I have 25mm spacers on standard alloys and tyres and its just about level with the wheel arch.
Funnily enough, the Ecoboost has 9" rims all round with a ET45 offset. That's 7.5mm further out that the GT rears, but the GT gains 0.25" as the rims are 0.5" wider, but still slightly further in than the Ecoboost by a nats manhood! But then the GT has 275 rears as opposed to 255s on the Ecoboost giving 9mm further out than the Ecoboost. Does this all make sense?!!
PS with a 25mm spacer, your wheels will be further out than Quinny's by 3.5mm. If you've still got the 275s on the back, then Quinny's are still 6.5mm nearer the arch because of the extra tyre width.
Edited by Jumturbo on Wednesday 22 February 16:28
-Z- said:
Doesn't that mean his rears would be poking out, doesn't look like it from the photos.
I say that as I have 25mm spacers on standard alloys and tyres and its just about level with the wheel arch.
My wheels are under the arches.. I'm running 1.5 degrees negative camber at the rear..I say that as I have 25mm spacers on standard alloys and tyres and its just about level with the wheel arch.
Quinny said:
My wheels are under the arches.. I'm running 1.5 degrees negative camber at the rear..
Looks well! Is the rear camber adjustable on these or have you had to replace the lower arms? I suppose this gives you a few extra mm of clearance.I've not even picked my car up yet, but I've already tried my 20s on! Albeit via photoshop! I've sorted my insurance to, including the wheel upgrade and was well impressed with the price through More Than!
|http://thumbsnap.com/Br1BTrhj[/url]Edited by Jumturbo on Thursday 23 February 12:39
kapiteinlangzaam said:
170mph
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPgyT5hRZg
Nice and stable, just the drivers side window seal got noisy at 140mph+. Not sure how to broach that one with the dealer!
Was there any kind of speed limiter that had to be removed?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FPgyT5hRZg
Nice and stable, just the drivers side window seal got noisy at 140mph+. Not sure how to broach that one with the dealer!
Jumturbo said:
Looks well! Is the rear camber adjustable on these or have you had to replace the lower arms? I suppose this gives you a few extra mm of clearance.
Rear camber is adjustable lower arms standardAlso should add, car is lowered 3/4" at the rear and 1" at the front.....
I also have the BMR lockout kit and Steeda subframe alignment kit which centres the subframe and helps stop wheel hop on hard acceleration
Front camber isn't adjustable, but I have aftermarket adjustable bolts fitted, but they weren't needed so I'm gonna remove them.
I've just spent a couple of hours figuring out the Sync3 navigation. I got the car last Wednesday and am gradually working through it. The SatNav is actually not bad but the manual is totally useless. Navigating to a postcode was fine, but homing in on an address looked a lost cause as it doesn't prompt for a house number (I noticed Focus users moaning about this). However if you move the map around with your finger you can see the addresses change and then once you've hovered over the correct one, you're done, not very 2017 but a solution. Amending the route to avoid certain roads was a voyage of discovery, but cracked, but I am positive you can't navigate to a latitude/longitude position. I've had a go and can't get it to work. When you press the where am I button it should also show Lat/Long but doesn't. The manual says yes, but I don't see how. A pity as it's pretty useful to have this, particularly as booking.com shows the Lat/Long for its hotels to help find them.
Programming the DAB radio was another voyage into the unknown. Finding the national BBC radio channels couldn't be done until I found that DAB channels are in blocks (5A/12B etc) and all the BBC national channels are in the 12B block. Once I twiddled the tuning knob to find 12B, hey presto all the BBC channels appeared which I preset immediately in case I forgot what I'd just done. The Ford guy wasn't aware of this, so he's owe me one.
So the Sync3 looks good to go properly, but a real trial end error job.
Otherwise great, and I've started bonding with neighbours who are closet petrolheads that I've not chatted to for ages/ever. They just love the car.
Programming the DAB radio was another voyage into the unknown. Finding the national BBC radio channels couldn't be done until I found that DAB channels are in blocks (5A/12B etc) and all the BBC national channels are in the 12B block. Once I twiddled the tuning knob to find 12B, hey presto all the BBC channels appeared which I preset immediately in case I forgot what I'd just done. The Ford guy wasn't aware of this, so he's owe me one.
So the Sync3 looks good to go properly, but a real trial end error job.
Otherwise great, and I've started bonding with neighbours who are closet petrolheads that I've not chatted to for ages/ever. They just love the car.
Well im now 4 weeks in to my 6 month wait for delivery. I plumed for the 5.0 V8 in Magnetic with Black stripes. Chopped in my AM Vantage for this as i was not enjoying driving the AM and the running costs were just getting silly (fine if you enjoy driving it but when you dont ... just a bind) ! - its going to be a slow painfull 6 months !
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