Gurney
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BangernomicsJust spent a pleasant weekend with friends who live in Worcester. Now Dave has no interest in cars whatsoever and has owned a P reg Mondeo 1.8 diesel for the past 11 years or so. Bought for a bargain £3000 it has never let him down and has taken him on a fairly lengthy daily commute from Wychbold to Sutton on a daily basis.
Actually it’s a shed, the suspension is rubber ducked, it refuses to achieve 85mph sounds like an early Massey Ferguson and smells for some reason of decaying cabbage. By far it’s most interesting faults are the legion of rattles from numerous orifices, you could easily cut a record using the various tones it produces. Steph hates it, like me she finds a rattle in a car highly offensive. Something to be rooted out and eradicated with extreme prejudice. The old Mondeo is a target rich environment, each fresh pothole adds another melody to the orchestra of squeaks zizz’s and clonks. The other day a fog lamp just fell off on the M5 and was promptly squished by a following artic. One of the rear passenger doors cannot be shut unless you push the door handle back down from it’s opening position. You get the picture, a banger that has more than paid it’s way but is now well past it’s sell by date.
So, September first he takes delivery of a brand new Mondeo Titanium X 2.2 Tdci. Got £2000 scrappage and a further £800 off for using Ford finance and paying the £19,000 off immediately. Think The Tit X actually costs around £26k so a fairly healthy discount anyway.
Ignoring consumables and Gov’t robbery his faithful old Mondy has therefore cost £200 for 11 years motoring. Not too shabby.
Steph will probably be moaning about how uncomfortable the GTA is as this Mondeo seems positively palatial by comparison, quicker to list what FG it hasn’t got judging by the brochure.
This too will be a keeper, wonder if it will last 11 years?
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DradusContact
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Bangernomics at its best. Ive owned the fiesta long enough and its old enough to qualify, if amanda passes im thinking of getting her something new/newer. It would be a shame to see it go on the landfill, but getting £2k for a car worth £500 at most is pretty tempting.
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Guitar Zero
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Hmm, probably best not tell your chum that drive the deal will do a 2.2 TDCI Titty X with metallic for £18952 before you start talking scrappage.
Any, I suppose if he keeps it for 11 years, it doesn't really matter.
Awesome car though, my friend has one as one of his two Ford management cars and I was very impressed, particularly with the performance, ride comfort and refinement.
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Gurney
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| Guitar Zero wrote: | Hmm, probably best not tell your chum that drive the deal will do a 2.2 TDCI Titty X with metallic for £18952 before you start talking scrappage.
Any, I suppose if he keeps it for 11 years, it doesn't really matter.
Awesome car though, my friend has one as one of his two Ford management cars and I was very impressed, particularly with the performance, ride comfort and refinement. |
Good grief, i'll keep that one quiet!
He's actually bringing it oop north for us to have a drive in when he gets it. Never been in the 2.2 so intrigued as to what it's like. The part leather/Alcantara perches look excellent.
Slighly concerned for the new Mondy's welfare though, in the past month alone Dave has hit a bus and a child on a bike (kids fault allegedly). Still he's not the sort to worry about cosmetics.
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gonnabuildabuggy
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Friends we've been camping with have an S plate Picnic, 70K on the clock.
Aside from family weekend outings it spends most of it's time in the long term at Gatwick as Gary works in Scotland 3/4 days a week and his office is within cycling distance if he's at home.
It got rear ended a year ago and written off as an uneconomical repair, so Gary got £1200 insurance money and bought the car back for a pittance. It passed it's MOT first time and has been in stirling service ever since.
However he too is looking to go the scrappage route and get something new.
That said I worked out that even if I kept the FRV 14 yrs it'll be about £1K p.a. depreciation. The BMW is at about £500 p.a. at the moment and getting smaller every day.
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