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it will soon be time to replace my trusty old passat, and although i do like vw's, they're not without their problems. A new cab in my area has to be less than 3.5 years old when newly plated, and new shape diesel mondeos just over 3 years old, seem to be very good value compared to passats. Has anyone run a newer shape mondeo as a taxi ? Any thoughts appreciated.

One of my friends was running one and he had a few problems with the particulate filter. He had it removed and the engine remapped and it was ok then.

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Grandad,

You won't go far wrong with them IMO.

Love it, absolutely love it.

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IDFIMH

Save your money and buy a skoda Octavia or superb, the new superb has mega room
Do the mondys still have rear brake caliper problems allegedly they keep on seizing up

Never heard that Skip.

thanks for your replys. Have only heard good things about the mondeo, and look like decent cars with bags of room. Had a 1.8 td sierra years ago that managed 440 k miles with only one gearbox change. So hard to know what to buy these days. Passat would have been a natural choice for me, but i fear the quality has gone a bit with them.

new shape (MK4) Tdci mondeo is a PSA (French) cambelt duratorq not a camchain...

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

find me a Focus on LPG please

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Running them all day on LPG is no good for an engine, they like the lubrication properties of petrol.

One of mine has been running on LPG for the last 4 years. You can also fit the flash lube system if you are worried. This lubricates the valves. I thought that engine oil was used to lubricate the engine.

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Grandad,

After getting a gas conversion on a toyota some years ago I was told to run on petrol for the first and last five minutes daily. The reason is gas is too dry to maintain the valve seating area ,thus a short while on petrol solves the problem . Grandads point about engine oil lubricating the system , I f engine oil was getting into the combustion chamber it would certainly oil the valves. It would also mean you had a sick motor ,you would have a smokey exhaust also poor performance and using a lot of engine oil. Hope this helps . Cheers Kevin.

The same with Diesel, I put 2 stroke semi synthetic in my Diesel to lubricate the pump and valves, it runs better.

Good point Kev.