Where have all the Mondeo’s gone

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

When I first qualified for a company car, I could have what I liked as long as it was either a Ford or a Vauxhall. Then, suddenly, things changed and magazine editors like me could have pretty well what they wanted, and I went for a Peugeot Turbo-diesel, which, in the era, was the best car I had ever driven. A little further up the tree from mere editors, there was a sudden crop of top-level Mercs, and BMWs. The reason? The company had changed from buying to hiring. and hire companies did some excellent deals because they found that good cars with an immaculate service history had a good second-hand value. The company never did get much for clapped-our Fords and Vauxhalls. Is with why company car drivers now shun Mondeos?

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Mike on 09/04/2018 16:09:19:

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The company never did get much for clapped-our Fords and Vauxhalls. Is with why company car drivers now shun Mondeos?

I wonder about that – I'm going back to 2010, but when I enquired about buying my company car (which I'd much liked), an '06 Titanium Mondy with 109k on the clock, they wanted 4.5 for it, which I thought was too much for the mileage. So I didn't buy.

Maybe the company car boys won't go for them because the leasing companies have too big ideas about their residual value?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Mike on 09/04/2018 16:09:19:

When I first qualified for a company car, I could have what I liked as long as it was either a Ford or a Vauxhall. Then, suddenly, things changed and magazine editors like me could have pretty well what they wanted,

I've been offered a full-colour picture of a nineteen-year old Nissan Micra.

[ZanParticipant @zan]

So what's this to do with model engineering? Get real this is Facebook and Twitter rubbish

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Mondeo was the Ford model favoured by engineers who couldn't justify a Transit. Mine had a sudden, catastrophic engine failure, the way I plan to go myself.

[doubletopParticipant @doubletop]

Posted by Zan on 10/04/2018 09:17:14:

So what's this to do with model engineering? Get real this is Facebook and Twitter rubbish

We're in the tea room having a tea break…

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 09/04/2018 17:48:06:

Posted by Mike on 09/04/2018 16:09:19:

When I first qualified for a company car, I could have what I liked as long as it was either a Ford or a Vauxhall. Then, suddenly, things changed and magazine editors like me could have pretty well what they wanted,

I've been offered a full-colour picture of a nineteen-year old Nissan Micra.

Colour! You're lucky. All we ever got were black and white…

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

One job I had They decided I needed a car for site visits, gave me some money to buy a suitable vehicle. I bought a 2CV and They were not pleased. Ideal for the job tho'.

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

I once knew a young newspaper reporter who was delighted to learn that he had qualified for a company car. What was delivered to the office next day? A Bond Bug!

[ChufferParticipant @chuffer]

I currently drive a 62 plate Mondeo Titanium X Sport Estate Automatic which I bought from a Ford dealer with 6K mileage, having been registered by Ford themselves – part of the ploy where manufacturers register and run their own cars in order to artificially boost sales figures.

This replaced a Mondeo Ghia Estate which I bought through Tradesales, Slough (remember them) who bought pre-registered cars from Europe with low mileage – I was the second owner and the car had 7 miles on the clock!! I did 175K in that car before giving it to my daughter who ran it for another year or two before she was told it wouldn't get through another MOT. It was ideal for carrying my 5" gauge loco', driving truck etc etc and it was the main reason I went for another Mondy. Both were/are petrol engine.

However, I won't be buying another Ford after the appalling treatment I have received. The new one is comfortable, goes like a rocket when you need to put your foot down but 9 months after the warranty expired the auto' gearbox started playing up. The result was that Ford agreed to pay just over £2.7K of the cost of replacement but I still had to stump up just over £1.5K and wait a total of 5 months before they could get a gearbox!! It turns out that Ford don't make the gearbox themselves – made by a German company called Getrag.

The reason I wont be buying another Ford is after the gearbox was finally fitted I sent a snotty email to the Head Man in the USA complaining about lack of customer service. I didn't expect to get a free replacement but after waiting so long you would have thought that they might have reduced the amount I had to pay. This email promptly got bounced back to the UK and I ended up speaking to a woman in the Ford Of Britain Executive Office. She said had the matter come to their office they wouldn't have been as generous as the Customer Relationship Centre had been ……….what!!

Now comes the quandary – what to buy as a replacement. After my recent experience I wouldn't buy anything with less than a 5 year warranty, it has to be an estate or similar, petrol or hybrid, have a flat floor which is solid enough to take a 5" loco and tender plus wagons, coal box and box with all the other stuff we need when running. So, fellow forum members I/we eagerly await your input, advice, recommendations.

Regards.

Chuffer

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Zan on 10/04/2018 09:17:14:

So what's this to do with model engineering? Get real this is Facebook and Twitter rubbish

This is the tea-room topic. Everything except sex, politics and religion is fair game.

Neil

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

"This is the tea-room topic. Everything except sex, politics and religion is fair game." Blooming 'eck Neil, for some poor sad souls there's nothing left for them to talk about.

But cars are an interesting topic, as lads we could talk about those all day, so lets all let it roll on ……..!

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 10/04/2018 16:36:10:

This is the tea-room topic. Everything except sex, politics and religion is fair game.

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I thought those were all à la mode for tea-rooms

MichaelG.

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Edited By Michael Gilligan on 10/04/2018 17:21:51

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