the million(artistic licence) mile Mondeo Taxi

[Glasgowrob]

Poisson96 said:

The road is the Asubscribe

A6 just outside shap

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New model is massive

Although slightly smaller in numbers of litres of boots pace than the mk4

This one will be remaining completely standard and err unmodified. Not even as much as a sticker


Although i did buy a big brown box from the USA to test out the boot space





A standard Mondeo this afternoon



Good news for once as well. The wife traded in her hateful horrid ecosport and bought me a spare engine and gearbox and associated ancillaries



Brilliant if you find yourself needing starters/alternators or anything like that on a Saturday afternoon

Although being a 2l tdci same as mine I might treat it to some tuning parts


Eta 4500 miles and counting

Edited by Glasgowrob on Sunday 8th May 20:22

Edited by Glasgowrob on Sunday 8th May 20:23

Edited by Glasgowrob on Sunday 8th May 20:24

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Managed to get over to the Capital Yesterday



And just a wee road trip today fort William to Mold in Wales







Glasgow to Horsham tommorow

I'm imaging first service will be next week some time currently on 6200 miles and another 1000 tommorow



and having spent the day tramping up and down the M6 i'm tempted to add a discrete mod,
saw this lovely front bumper attachment that I think might be useful

Edited by Glasgowrob on Friday 13th May 21:15

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As above

Road transport element for medical repatriations

And profesdionAl bug splatter

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No regulation on us, normally just play it by ear. Take a break as and when.


960 miles today.

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Had an easy Welles this week thanks to jury duty


Just ticked over 10k miles.

First bill too. (Other than the smashed window) Oil/filter change ford suggest 18k intervals but sack not changing the oil for that long

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Dealee didn't get near it
Genuine ford filter works out and £4.40 and oil around £1.50/litre on trade makes it a very cheap if somewhat bemusing in between oil change. Plastic sump and sump plug wtf. ,be interesting to see how it holds up to big miles

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JakeT said:

10k!? And I thought it was good going to do that since January. If we say you had the car at 0 miles on the 20th of April when you started this thread and clicked over 10k today after 41 days that means an average of 244 miles per day, or 89,000 miles per year! Do you actually do nearly 90k per year!?

Pretty much spot on but this doesn't take into account the full tank it arrived with




Economy looks woeful but it does spend a fair bit of time idling and round the town hopefully a few tweeks and some extra miles will improve it

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_Nathan_ said:

Any info on where to get oil for £1.50 p/litre ?

Trade account and buy 200 litres at a time

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13000 miles ticked over this after noon

a good collection of stone chips but have to say its certainly loosesned off over the last few weeks. pulls a lot better than when she arrived and economy is creeping up a few mpg overall.

I think we're starting to bond

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hazzaman said:

Following this with interest.

I'm 8 months and 35k in with my 15 plate titanium. Same 150ps diesel. Definitely took some time to loosen up, started to feel better around 20k.

I've added a TDI Tuning CRTD box to mine and seeing around 500-530 miles per fill.

Brilliant car, I'm still amazed how quiet the cabin is. Shame the sat nav is useless, I've all but given up on it's ability to plan a route or correctly display the correct turn direction icons for roundabouts.

interesting to hear of the improvement in miles, wholeheartedly agree on the satnav, its a waste of space really. absolute shambles of a system more akin to something that i'd expect in a 10 year old car

[Glasgowrob]

15k miles now, and happily getting 520-540 miles out the last few tanks of mixed driving. happy days,


off to Liverpool tomorrow so if any of you lot see me on the M6 give us a wave

[Glasgowrob]

21k miles had her second service at just before 19k and a set of front tyres

Much prefer my usual rainsports to the Michelin primacies she came with






Post service



And we were working up at T in the park on Sunday. I honestly thought she would never be clean again
3 ruddy hours to get her presentable after Sunday

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Edited by Glasgowrob on Tuesday 12th July 06:51

Edited by Glasgowrob on Tuesday 12th July 06:53

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let you be the judge of that



https://www.facebook.com/rob.finlayson.148/videos/...

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use only BP diesel, but that's because of our fuel cards rather than any brand loyalty.

new bus has never known anything but, and old Mondeo was the same for 200k miles

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eltax91 said:

Can't normally collect them on negotiated fuel card special rates, I don't think?

very true no points for me
but on the plus side i get to see the tidy lass in the BP at harthill every day

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Old ones looking good currently getting a lot of love I'll get pics next time I'm up


New one is about to nudge 29k. But off tommorow as she's away getting nearly £900 worth
Of windscreen fitted ruddy stonechip S and bankrupt insurance companies.

Nothing broken yet although we've had 3 services and a set of front tyres so far

[Glasgowrob]

29/05 oil service 10117
04/07 Full service 18826
11/08 oil service 27802



currently averaging a real world 42.01mpg consuming 3135 litres of diesel over 28454 miles at an average of 460 miles per fill up and covering 241 miles a day, stats courtesy of an app i use called Road Trip

just ticked over 29k this morning


been a busy couple of months

[Glasgowrob]

29-05 10117 miles Oil service
04-07 18826 miles Full service
07-07 19305 miles 2 front tyres (2x Uniroyal Rainsports)
11-08 27808 miles Oil Service
19-08 New Windscreen and ADAS calibration.
26-08 30862 miles Taxi Test - Pass (woot)
27-09 37335 miles 2 front tyres (2x Unroyal Rainsports)
03-10 38339 miles full service and a set of front pads, £70 for a set of genuine Ford front pads ouch

oh and for the last set of front tyres we bumped into an old friend




Fuel economy is up another .4 of a mpg over the last 10k miles 42.22 over 40k

Edited by Glasgowrob on Friday 14th October 09:41

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enjoying retirement, and is being lightly fettled with

has covered about 1200 miles to the new ones 40k lol,