2010 Ford Mondeo 2.0 Ecoboost - the daily

This April I got the summer wheels back on with some new tires and of course gave them a good clean inside and out beforehand. Scored some basically new Kumho Ecsta PS71 as the seller ordered the wrong size for his car and so I got them for super cheap. Really satisfied with how they ride as well.













In September this year I finally grew tired of the SUV-looking ride height and set out to do something about it.



A bunch of stuff arrived:
- new Ford badge
- H&R 40mm lowering springs
- Eibach Spacers 20mm front, 25mm rear
- new ball joints
- a rear view camera (that I still haven't fitted...)

First the badge.





Then it was time to tackle the suspension.



After I had gotten the first strut back together with the new spring, I was going to...



...change the ball joints. I could not get the original ones out of the control arm and so ended up ordering new control arms.



After the suspension was in I stuck the spacers on and mounted the wheels back on.





























Last month then the rear brakes needed doing, badly! So I ordered new discs and pads for the rear, fronts were still good. To get everything looking a bit fresher, I decided to paint the calipers as they were looking pretty ugly and were pretty much on display with both the summer and winter wheels. I then also stuck on the winter wheels as well.

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And that's where we're at today. All in all I can say the car is a great daily and has been very reliable so far. In the end I did not NEED to buy the car, as a month after I bought it my company basically switched to permanent home office (the benefits of working in IT) and so the car has seen very few miles - I think right now I'm at around 123.000kms. Would I have bought it if I knew that I wasn't really going to need it? I don't know. Probably not, I would've probably chosen something older. That said now that I have it, it's proven to be a great daily and I really like it and do not regret buying it.

Been enjoying all your threads. I really like what you did with the wood on this. Got a link to the product at all?

Nice, but hardly Retro !

Yeah, I was a bit wary at first because I had heard some mixed things about Fords, but so far I can say it's been pretty much bulletproof. The only issue it has is that the buttons for the cruise control are very hit and miss. I've already cleaned them with some contact spray and compressed air and that made them work a bit better, but still not perfect. But this being the only issue so far I can tolerate it.



Thanks! Glad someone is enjoying them, I'm sometimes a bit unsure because of the relative lack of responses, but I still keep posting as I love reading this forum.

Here's a link to the product overview on 3M's page:
www.3m.co.uk/3M/en_GB/architectural-design-UK/surface-finishes/di-noc-films/

It comes in LOADS of finishes and there should be some PDF catalogues on the site to download.

I had to order it through a vinyl specialist shop. I don't know if the availability in the UK is any better, afraid you'll have to look into that yourself!



Thank you!

It's a pleasure to read one of your threads.

Those are some really sympathetic touches you have done to the car, which work very well. As always, it's the small things which make quite a difference



I still remember when these came off. Folks thought these looks svelte, with some I think, reckoning they looked like a family Aston. However, it was not enough to make German car owners come away from their cars.

The Mk3 is more fun and engaging to drive. These however, are more grown up, are still fun down a backroad, and are massive. It's the only car I've had where a 6 foot friend has sat in the back. Even the E Class couldn't quite come as close.



I'm in agreement there. It's one reason why I've not put my E91 up (for now, unless I get the feeling to put it up, albeit, I do have a dailies thread up, for some cars I fix for the family).

If we are playing devil's advocate, we could say it is retro, mainly for a number of simple reasons

-The Mondeo as we know it is now dead
-Family cars have been a dying breed for a very long time now. From being a car that you'd fight over in company car parking lots, they're now a car folks wouldn't be seen dead in, for the fear of coming across as a dad or an 'old man'. I actually can't think of the last time I saw a sub 5 year old non SUV family car of this size.
-The tech now is dated and old. Step from one of these into a 72 plate Golf, and the tech improvements and dating of things really comes to mind. The Converse for example really seems dated compared to what the new cars have. The 69 plate Evoque my parents had really brought this home, as did a Disco Sport HSE I drove for work.

I suppose, we're getting old.

Anyway, I may be a little biased.

I do love a Mk4. Our family has had a number of these, including

-A 2008 2.5T Ghia Saloon
-A 2008 2.5T Titanium Estate.

The latter was a strange car. It was not a Tit X, but it had alot of options, with the ones of note being

-Full electric seats up front
-Adaptive Cruise Control with Hill Assist
-Converse+ Dash
-Adaptive Halogen lights, with cornering lights, ala Citroen DS

However, it had
-No Keyless Start ; the Ghia did
-No heated seats

It was an ex Police car, so it did have other bits done to it as well. We owned it from 2015 to 2021, where I owned it personally from 2019 onwards. It's now with a friend, living in Europe with the car.

My dad now has an 11 plate Mk4.5 Titanium X, which looks to be an ex Ford Demonstrator, again with some options I've never seen on other cars before, including

-Blind Assist
-Speed Limiter function
-Cornering Lights
-PowerShift Dual Clutch 'box

Like yours, that's Lunar Sky in colour. Definitely not brown!

A few shots of the now gone estate. These photos are now 7 years old of that car. Mad! To think back then, we paid £3.5k for the car in 2015.

Loads of people are reading the threads even if you don't see loads in interactions.

275bhp with a stage 1 remap, big jump on the 204ps model as its hardware is identical to the 240ps model.

I really quite like this, not a fan or fords so Mondeo's fall under nah category.
Nice to see one done with some thought put into the style rather than, throw lots of tat at it and call it a show car approach we seem to get over here.
Top marks!

I love this as a daily.

With the lows I actually prefer the 18's.

Quite fancy one of these in 2.5 flavour for all the 5 cylinder noises.

Good job. I will be watching.