Desperate:
Goldfinger:
‘Trusty’ up to now.You do know what happends to diesel fords anywhere beyond 70-80,000 miles don’t you??
What’s that? My Mondeo diesel has done 162,000
What year’s yours!! ■■
Mines a ‘56 plate TDCI. I have been warned when they get beyond 80,000 miles the injectors start to pack up (around £100 EACH to recode etc) then the fuel pump follows (around £1200 -whole replacement part, can’t be repaired or reconed’)
Goldfinger:
Desperate:
Goldfinger:
‘Trusty’ up to now.You do know what happends to diesel fords anywhere beyond 70-80,000 miles don’t you??
What’s that? My Mondeo diesel has done 162,000
What year’s yours!! ■■
Mines a ‘56 plate TDCI. I have been warned when they get beyond 80,000 miles the injectors start to pack up (around £100 EACH to recode etc) then the fuel pump follows (around £1200 -whole replacement part, can’t be repaired or reconed’)
It tends to be the early ones (around 2002) which can give problems although it’s not uncommon for a common rail diesel to go pear shaped regardless of age. The injectors have come down in price a lot, used to be more than double that. The main thing you should be worried about is the duel mass flywheel, these tend to go around 100k miles and are costly to replace as the clutch has to come out, which gets replaced too (may aswell while it’s out as its a big job). Oh and check the rear subframe bushes (another weak point).
kr79:
The old ones the escorts and early mondeos with the 1.8 diesels used to be prone to snapping cam belts and doing heads.
That’s the 1.8TDi endura, was a bad design on the cambelt, ford didn’t specify a reccommended interval change (ie every 80k), only regular inspection. I think it’s good practice to change them every 40k.
I’ve got a Landy and that takes a least half an hour of hard driving to get even near warm, more ice on the inside than on the outside.
Ossie
One of the funniest things I saw was in The Sun a few years back, it was titled “The Ice Berks cometh” it showed pics of cars iced up with various degrees of ice scraping, such as " The letterbox" a 6inch slit with the driver’s nose up to the screen looking through it, and the “Eyeholes” two tiny circles one for each eye, and various other mad ideas, these were genuine pics taken on the road 
you had to see it to believe it 
robroy:
One of the funniest things I saw was in The Sun a few years back, it was titled “The Ice Berks cometh” it showed pics of cars iced up with various degrees of ice scraping, such as " The letterbox" a 6inch slit with the driver’s nose up to the screen looking through it, and the “Eyeholes” two tiny circles one for each eye, and various other mad ideas, these were genuine pics taken on the road
you had to see it to believe it
lord leveson doesn’t believe what he sees or reads
in the papers so why do you 
the sun 
