The Ford Mondeo ST TDCI was the Ultimate 2000's Repmobile 

Thanks mate, he definitely looks after it 👍

50mpg with mixed driving and just under 200bhp is still pretty good today to be fair!

@@CarswithJamesMosley I have a Jaguar XF 3.0d S portfolio theses days. Significantly quicker but nowhere near on the fuel.

i currently have a 54 plate one in black it’s lovely

Impressive mileage mate! What did you buy it on? And how is it running now?

@@CarswithJamesMosley Bought it with 75k miles. And still runs brilliant. Kept it mostly standard (except for Eibach springs and Eibach spacers - from Ford as these was an original option) until about 165k miles when I got some upgrades done: exhaust, decat, intercooler, before rolling road remap. On the day did find a problem, after installing components, where shouldve seen already seen about 10 bhp increase, we found we had 150bhp. Therefore my car must have been down from original at about 140bhp maybe. Once on rolling road, the remap resulted in 185bhp and 385lbft torque, thought the tuner said he was expecting closer to 200hp. Anyway,drove away happy and since then found fuel efficiency had increased too. The funny thing is just a few months later I wanted to find out why I was down on power in the first place. Turns out my injectors where worn - one really badly and two fairly worn. Got these reconditioned which resulted in even more power. Been thinking about whether I should get the original remap (done with dodgy injectors)... remapped (with reconditioned injectors)!

@@joynul wow you've done some serious miles in yours then! I reckon it would be interesting to see if it would map a little better with the new injectors. Definitely feels like it should?

Glad to hear you enjoyed yours!

Same 👋 155ch 2.2l

Agreed, I definitely need to try the petrol version as a comparison!

Definitely feels like that doesn’t it!

The recaros are great 🙌

220k is impressive mate. Was she standard?

Good to hear it's still going strong!

They're still a pretty competent all rounder even in 2023, and a lot of car for the money now too 👍

@@CarswithJamesMosley yeah great value for money. I had mine in 2014-2015. The heated windscreen was also great in winter along with the heated seats.

I bet that's a lot of fun to drive!

Seems crazy that the V6 is compliant and the diesel isn't... Would be interesting to hear what you think of the V6 as a comparison!

52.5mpg is impressive! Is yours mapped too?

Yeah mapped plus a few other bits

ST220 wagon is very cool 👌

Yeah I think that's the same with all Fords from this era now. What car are you coming from?

@@CarswithJamesMosley got an e90 330d m sport just now, and it's a great car, but miss the mondeo st. Had two mondeo St's previously, had to get rid of the last one due to engine management light coming off and on and losing power. Ford couldn't figure it out and after spending hundreds trying to figure it out, had to let it go. Tempted to keep the 330d and also run a mondeo.

@@Marvindorfler1 what part of the Mondeo do you miss Vs the BMW?

@@CarswithJamesMosley I love how bmw and ford feel. The ford mondeo st was just fun to drive every single time, I had eibach springs fitted and it would just glide round corners. It had a tuning box fitted ( with no issues) and it was ridiculously torquey. Everything from the feeling of the seats, the old analogue clock on the dash to how the car handled. Again, 330 is also great, but I need to own another mondeo st tdci. Preferably in blue, but would take a magnum grey one if it was right.

Need to try and find one to try!

I still need to drive a 220 to compare!

Naturally I'm a little biased towards the Ford, but with the Mondeo you get something a little different from the ordinary and it has an ST badge/driving dynamics too. As far as I'm aware they're generally pretty good if taken care of. Just the usual diesel stuff like sticky EGR valves and injectors to watch out for.

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it! And yes it was a lot of fun to drive!

That's some seriously impressive mpg mate, especially considering it's a 2.2 lump 👍

​@@CarswithJamesMosley Could have been wrong, but I don't think it was far off, I've got a mk3.5 st diesel now with a pumaspeed stage 3, it's 278 bhp with 580nm, On a run I've had 62 mpg and 47/48 mpg around town.

@@Hellndegenerates still not bad mate for the performance!

@@Hellndegenerates how did you get your mk3 st tdci to that power most ppl make around 210 215 max

The owner bought it like that. Looked like it was just springs from what I could see 👍

Think you might be right, could just be single zone looking at it again!

@@CarswithJamesMosleyFord actually referred to the front passenger & driver heated seats in these and the Ghia X & Titanium X models as Climate Seats, as they have both heating & cooling functions as standard At first glance I’m guessing this could perhaps be understood as dual zone? As an optional extra this was available for the rear passenger seats also.

Thanks for the additional info!

@@AB-eh9uh the st220 only had heated seats. Think because of the recaros