Hi,
Thinking of changing the 406 2.1 TD for a Mondeo TDCi. I have looked at both a Ghia and a Ghia X. The X is 2 years old BUT has 83k on the clock and the ghia is 2.5 years old with 66k. I think both are 130 HP variants.
Any views on either of these? What mileage should the cambelt be changed?
Thanks,
Mark
make sure they've had the handbrake recall
Typical ford turbo diesel, no power followed by full power delivery, with nothing in between.
No cambelt. Chain driven, also with the classic ford rattle.
Engine: Great. No belt, it's chain drive. Lots of poke. Masses of torque. Has pretty much the road speed/gear behaviour of my old 2.0 petrol.
As for the toss-up between the Ghia and Ghia X, the X has everything that the Ghia has, plus fully electric drivers seat (buttons & motors rather than levers to pull), leather seats all round, plus bigger wheels that need more expensive tyres.
My Mondeo is now 2 years old, and it's a very early facelift model (Sony head unit rather than the Ford 6006 unit).
I'd *personally* go for the facelift model. You get a lot more toys with it!
Pete.
Chain cam AFAIK
and it's got a fair amount of poke I had my bosses tdci estate with 6 speeds and it was good on the motorway and outhandled the vetra sri I had a few weeks later on a track I would say it would have been neck and neck, but on the road the mondeo was miles quicker round corners before the traction control and stability stuff kicked in, the vectra was dangerous in those conditions
it's also got huge amounts of space in the rear as well as a fairly cavernous boot with standard equipment being fairly comprehensive if you are getting the 130 version then you are more than likely going to get the subtle faclifted version
Yeah - can't run them on chip fat. THe injectors don't like it.
And if you run proper biodiesel instead of SVO?
See Conors answer about chip fat :-)
The manual says absolutely no more than 5% biodiesel to normal diesel.
Pete.
Which isn't the same as SVO that's been reprocessed and treated with methoxide.
Which is lawyer-backside covering - the same pumps are used on German cars that can take biodiesel AFAIK. Not sure about the injector system though.
BMW engines are not compatible. Don't know about Mercedes.
Huw
Heh.
Wrong.
Either / or why, if the handbook says don't run it on more than five percent biodiesel, don't do it.
Wrong in what way? The TDCI is chain driven.
The rattle bit! I was cut off whilst writing. :-/
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