Mondeo mk3 TDCI - oil, brakes, remote

Hi,

A few questions about my Mondeo TDCI 52 plate:

  1. what's the correct grade & spec for the engine oil?

  1. how long would you expect the rear pads (not shoes - discs all round) to last?

  2. how do you set up the remote so that the drivers door unlocks on one press, the other doors on the second?

  1. what's the correct way of removing a wheel cover? I'm embarrassed to ask and admit that I broke one.

Thanks in advance,

Andy.

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Andy Evans
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5W30 semi synthetic

Varies greatly. Some mange 60k+, some only 20k. These are also bad for the rear hand brake cables seizing, leading to quicker wear.

Not sure.

Give it a good pull, or gently lever from an edge using a big screw driver. You've just got to be careful, as the wheel trims are brittle.

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Moray Cuthill

I find the best way to remove delicate plastic wheel trims is to thread a piece of nylon air line through two adjacent holes, then tug sharply on the ends.

Works a treat on my Focus, I even educated the local Ford dealership, whose Trained Technicians managed to break three of mine and then "mend" them with superglue!

Chris

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Chris Whelan

Hi Moray,

Thanks for the answers, one extra query below:

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Andy Evans

Hi Chris,

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Andy Evans

All fords from 1999 model year on use the same 5W30 oil. There are a couple exceptions for the non-ford built vehicle though. (ie. Galaxy which is VW has to use 5W40 VW spec oil)

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Moray Cuthill

Assuming it's like the Focus, get out, shut doors, unlock with the remote.

Hold the lock and unlock buttons on remote down simultaneously until the indicators flash about four times. (five to eight seconds wait)

Should now be in the other state, ie one push drivers, one extra - remaining doors.

Repeat to switch back to one push all doors.

Hope this works. If not it'll be buried in some obscure part of the manual like mine was!

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Chris Street

Top posting means my reader dumped the rest, can't be bothered pasting it back, blah blah,

All Fords use the same 5W30 - my Focus diesel uses the same oil as the Focus petrols (in fact my diesel is same engine as yours). Make sure it's got the Ford ESS whatever type number on it.

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Chris Street

ford recommend the same oil for everything now even though type shouldn't find some normal diesel oil and use that

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dojj

Yes, that worked a treat!

Thanks,

Andy.

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Andy Evans

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