EOTR - Mondeo Tit-X TD SI edition

[Beany]

Seriously Impressive edition, obviously.

So, 10k and nine months, whats to like about a Mondeo?

Well, quite a lot. It's comfy, quiet, good heater and aircon, very good (premium) sound with the sub, frugal on a run, not too bad around town (50 and 30 respectively), decent punch, can get past 100mph with relative ease, even moreso post remap.

Bad things? None really, other than it being a big, fairly heavy estate, which blunts the handling but still gives it enough poise to be useful on a backroad if you want to make progress.

Costs? Fuel, oil and filters. Literally all it needed. I remapped it but that's not really a 'cost', that was me playing silly buggers, but it defintely helped make the car more usable, with the turbo spooling up a lot earlier and delivering the torque over a much wider spread than previously.

The interior is nice and as I currently have the E46, you can see where the influences bled into the Mk4 Mondeo - very similar in terms of switchgear and layout and general feel and function. Seats were comfy and grippy (mmm, alcantara), with little flashes of metal-like trim.

Overall, if I needed another big car again, it'd be well up the list. But I think I'll stick to fun things for now.

Sold to a chap who does length-of-the-country tips four or five times a year, to replace a Vectra that's been written off after being T-boned. I think he'll be happy with it. I mean, when I was doing Leeds to Herts every weekend, it turned that journey into an absolute 'nothing' of a trip. Bang on the cruise control, turn up the tunes, and roll down the road, with the occasional flex up to a ton to get past dawdlers. Nice.

[Zonda_]

What year was it, what did you sell it for £? I'm looking at options for when the 4 Series goes?

[Beany]

2008, and in the end, £2125, which is less than I wanted, but I wanted it gone. It also needed front tyres which aren't cheap, etc etc.

£2500 will get you a decent one, less for an ex-taxi.

[JLv3.0]

with the turbo spooling up a lot earlier

This confuses me. How can a remap lower the boost threshold of a turbo?

[Beany]

with the turbo spooling up a lot earlier

This confuses me. How can a remap lower the boost threshold of a turbo?

Different varable vane triggers or something? IE at full throttle from low, it fully operates the vanes; with the remap, it does that on part throttle to get it spun up faster?

I see what you're saying though, it can't make the turbo spool up before there's enough exhaust gas etc, but it definitely gets more torque, sooner, after the remap.

[JLv3.0]

Opening them more would make the turbo "bigger" - i.e. more lag. Not questioning it, just interested really.

[NotoriousREV]

It’s possible it was torque restricting at low rpm to save load on the clutch and gearbox and/or noise testing and the remap has removed that. The MG Metro Turbo used to do that and only allow full boost over about 4K rpm.

[JLv3.0]

Yep, very good point. OK my mind is at peace now.

[speedingfine]

Please post your crappiest photos of this vehicle Beany, I'll feel cheated otherwise.

[V8Granite]

More fuel, more boost, it's how we improve response on our sets.

Dave!