Roughly worked out about 20% off. Been doing this for 30 years now using the same salesman. We've built up a good relationship and he gives me every bit of money off / part-ex price he can.
Only the steering issues mate
Yes that's correct
30 years of only Ford, you deserve a knighthood! 50% off wouldn’t have kept me with them, wouldn’t have had one at all for a very long time if it was my only car. Luckily I have a personal and work car and stupidly usually another one or two.
All set for collection tomorrow, dealer sent video this afternoon, looks fantastic. Only hiccup has been my current insurer won't cover it and because reg doesn't come up on any systems yet it's hard work getting a new quote online.
Isn’t this your second Mk4 ST and you also own a Puma ST?
Yeah, can't wait to actually drive it now, 4 hour train journey away. Making use of Ford's 3 day driveway insurance and hopefully get my insurance sorted over the weekend, spoke to Ford insurance and excess not too bad.
Nice one. Good shout on the driveaway insurance. So it looks like your whole process was about 4.5 months - not bad at all. Means there's a chance I might actually get it in time for peak summer
Ive had Focus MK1, MK3.5 and 2 x MK4 ST’s and a Puma ST, numerous Escorts, Cortina’s, Capri, Granada, Fiesta, Sierra and a good few Mondeo’s (love Mondeos) , Galaxy’s and a Cougar. I didn’t say I don’t like Fords obviously! I stopped buying then as my main personal car about 20 years ago. Been a work or second car since. VAG, BMW, Audi, Jag and a few others took their place as first choice, but we’ve nearly always had a Ford or two out there if not Ford a Vauxhall but the last of those was over 10 years ago. If I had to have 1 ford and nothing else it would nearly always have been a Mondeo and if they had kept the ST going, or put better performance petrol engines in them instead of mostly boring diesels, I probably would have had a few more instead of a few of the german cars as they were easily just as good, better than some as a car. As it is I also love performance hatches, the engine and gearbox of the ST is superb along with mostly decent everything else, enough to pip the i30n for me. But now struggle to get interested in a 4.5, gutted really. Price massively OTT along with the interior just rules it out for me. But VAG has done similar and ruled themselves out too, interior is a lot nicer to look at but horrendous to use.
Interesting, what are your issues with the 4.5 interior? I suppose the seats and the touchscreen are the only real differences
I deeply miss the small cubby on the drivers side by the steering wheel. Also I would've appreciated ambient lighting at night that were different colours.
did the mk4 have have a choice of ambient light colors? I know the mk3.5 titanium etc had this, but the mk3.5 ST was always red only. This I liked and wish the mk4.5 had red ambient lighting
Yeah my Mk4 has multi colour, I can chose from about 8 different colours I think. Have mine on Red at the moment, used to use dark blue (proper blue, not like the cyan button lighting).
Yeah, from order to collection just under 5 months. Well worth the wait, you'll love it. Car is now home in Cumbria, nicer to drive than either my JCW or Golf GTi, really impressed and it does have rev matching in sport mode without the performance pack. One problem, none of the buttons on the console work, apart from the volume control and engine stop/start. I didn't realise until stuck in traffic on A50 and having a play, too late to turn around so spoke to dealer in Nottingham and have to pop it into local dealer to have a look.Nice one. Good shout on the driveaway insurance. So it looks like your whole process was about 4.5 months - not bad at all. Means there's a chance I might actually get it in time for peak summer
I hate (not dislike) in order of hateness ! The stripped out dash/removal of the heater panel etc, it was never an audi in there but now its plain bad and beyond boring along with the stupid idea of controlling everything via the screen. The screen itself is far too big and gainly. The seats, or rather the headrests, nooo. Not only 4.5 but the natty lcd dash, prefer quality dials /lcd mix but do like others LCD’s, a software update could improve that a lot just by adding bezels to the dials and bloody numbers on the speedo, who the hell thought of that, does he still work for Ford? You have to sit in there after committing to a mortgage to”rent” it. Also not keen the new front end much, but could live with that, ever since someone on here said it looked like a Transit at the front, it stuck and I see a Transit! And don’t like the loss of the PS4s tyres.
Don't get me wrong the GTi (7.5)was well put together and drove great, but the Focus just felt right, more engaging and every bit as good as the Golf. My JCW was 69 plate and a great fun drive although not as sharp as I'd have liked and certainly not as practical as the Golf or Focus. I suppose it's a case of we all experience different cars in a different way.
Yes, it's great and when I went out this morning all the buttons are working, possibly doing a system reset last night has helped.
Everthing about it? I like mine a quite a lot, about 85% of it which is good for any car.
I am with LV and not having a reg yet isn’t a problem with them. I paid about £260 last year with csma discount and £100 excess including a Dreamscience map
Hi.Nice one. Good shout on the driveaway insurance. So it looks like your whole process was about 4.5 months - not bad at all. Means there's a chance I might actually get it in time for peak summer
Got sorted in the end with insurance thanks Dan, went with Darwin, good level of cover for a reasonable premium.
