the million(artistic licence) mile Mondeo Taxi

[eltax91]

Glasgowrob said:

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

Plastic??!! Wtf. Wonder if the dealers all use a pela/ equivalent then. I'd be getting me one.

[JakeT]

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!?

[Poisson96]

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!?

Further up 100k a year for 5 years was mentioned

[Glasgowrob]

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

[_Nathan_]

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

[Glasgowrob]

_Nathan_ said:

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

Trade account and buy 200 litres at a time

[Mr Teddy Bear]

I thought that I was doing well picking up GTX at £13 for 4 litres!

[Glasgowrob]

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

[hazzaman]

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.

[Dannbodge]

I love the new mondeos.
So comfortable and quiet on the motorways, they are pretty large though

[Glasgowrob]

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 06:53

[Snowdrop_]

Crazy amount of mileage you've done so far!
Still enjoying it?

[Glasgowrob]

let you be the judge of that



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

[GTIAlex]

Enjoy reading this, keep the updates coming.

[bomma220]

Rob, apologies if this has been asked before but do you have a preferred brand of diesel that you run it on? Would you put say BP in instead of 'supermarket.' fuel?

[Glasgowrob]

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

[Faxo]

Bet your Nectar points pay for Christmas!

[eltax91]

Faxo said:

Bet your Nectar points pay for Christmas!

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