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Malcolm73
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My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« on: Jan 28th, 2009, 9:48pm » |
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I bought my second hand 24v Ultima on the 30th. January 1998 with a recorded 7000 miles and a Ford one year warranty.
I had early problems with the antilock brakes. The E.C.U. and a front sensor proving to be faulty; also the radio control stalk did not work. Ford replaced the stalk and the radio but never cured the problem which turned out to be a faulty multiplug, finally cured with a rubber band!
Over the years I have encountered only a few minor problems, in fact it is probably the most reliable car that I have owned. Parts have been replaced due to wear and ageing and the heater matrix, although working well has a suspected leak.
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Has anyone owned a Scorpio for more than 11 years?
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Matt
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #1 on: Jan 28th, 2009, 11:20pm » |
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not me but the bloke over the road has owned his 2.0 16v since 1996, he got it second hand, hated the way it looked, but was won over with the comfort. Only a year old but had done a 101000 miles, was a reps car or summat, any way at over 200,000 mile on it now its only suffering a few scabby panels and a dodge idle controll valve and he said the only way he'll get rid of it is if it's written off . . . 
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Jonnycab
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #2 on: Jan 29th, 2009, 3:04am » |
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Malcolm, do you fancy revealing what price you paid all those years ago for a 7000 miler cossie ?
Or better still, tell us how old the car was when you bought it & we can all play a little game of 'guess the price' 
Prize for the nearest guess ?........the right to be smug 
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #3 on: Jan 29th, 2009, 8:12am » |
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Are you sure it's a scorpio as I notice the word "reliable" used
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #4 on: Jan 29th, 2009, 8:20am » |
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Yes I had mine for 12.5 years and was a very reliable car . It left me with 170k on the clock and I still miss the comfort of it ..only replacements were Radiator , Rear wheel bearings and of course the obvious pads, filters, etc but and it had 2 batteries and two wiper linkages but nothing MAJOR . I think its still going strong must check .
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #5 on: Jan 29th, 2009, 11:49am » |
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If you allow different cars I've owned a Ford Scorpio in one disguise or another since 1990, give or take a few months off when I went mad and had an Alfa 164 and a few months of owning a Senator (God help me). Am really pleased with the latest 24V facelift and will keep it! ( Passed its MOT on Monday )
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Malcolm73
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #6 on: Jan 31st, 2009, 10:45pm » |
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Thanks for all the comments about my old Scorpio. It was photographed on what transpired to be the last of the Weston Super Mare meetings. The car was parked and whilst I was on the pier three others parked alongside. There were four Scorpios in a row all painted in ‘Cuirass’ and the photograph appeared on this forum.
Of course there have been annoying replacements eg. The rubber pipe beneath the P.A.S. reservoir, water through the roof around the aerial etc, and I am now facing up to a new heater matrix, suspected as leaking but after totally restoring water flow by flushing I have apparently also flushed the suspected leak Negligible loss of engine coolant but there is a stronger unpleasant smell, so I have a new matrix, to fit or be fitted.
Bizzay1. Yes, I have just been out and checked, it is a Scorpio! The car has benefited from always being garaged, and regular fluid changes (Engine oil 3,000 miles).
Johnnycab. According to form V5C, date of first registration, 2nd. April 1997. I paid a £100 deposit on the 20th. December 1997 and then decided not to proceed as I already owned a perfectly good car, however I went ahead and the invoice is dated 30th. January 1998. In the five weeks the mileage had increased from 6,000 to 7,000
PRICE:- Paid for the car? £??, .(Exclude the £289 one year warranty) Have a guess, write it down. and I will disclose the figure shortly. It was not cheap!
Snoopy. Yes there were the obvious items, and an electronic box(s) from Gozz. Batteries, the original Ford did well, then three Fiam batteries all failing within warranty. The present battery was installed in May 2008. I converted from flat posts to tapered posts in order to accommodate a high powered battery. Front discs and pads were changed at about 75,000.
Tyres changed at 37,429, and 77,031 and I am now on Michelin Primacy.
Petrol Shell V-Power. M.P.G. indicator, never reset. Highest recorded on a journey from Stourbridge to Plymouth and back, on return it was 30.1 M.P.G. and still increasing.
Here is another useless bit of information. I took my first driving test in a Jowett Bradford van and as I never mastered the gearbox, the retest was in an Austin.
73s Malcolm
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Malcolm73
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #7 on: Jan 31st, 2009, 10:57pm » |
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Another quick comment about my failed driving test. My first lessons in driving were given by a local "Bookmaker" in, I believe a very upmarket Austin. On the day of the test he brought the Jowett!
A question to Snoopy. I typed a £ followed by five question marks. Why did the last three turn into a smiley?
Malcolm
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Jonnycab
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #8 on: Feb 1st, 2009, 2:12am » |
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Malcolm73 wrote...... "PRICE:- Paid for the car? £??,.(Exclude the £289 one year warranty) Have a guess, write it down. and I will disclose the figure shortly. It was not cheap!"
9 months old with 7K on when you bought it, Hmmmmm...... I'm guessing that when it was brand new it wasn't sold for the full £26K rrp, as Ford were having trouble selling them. So I'd guess that the new price was probably around £20K.
I'll make a guess that you bought it for about £14K
P.S.... the reason the last 3 question marks came up as a smiley is because 3 question marks typed in a row comes up as this....
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Malcolm73
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #9 on: Feb 1st, 2009, 2:25pm » |
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Hello Johnycab,
I wish - You are much too too low. Not that it made much difference but it had reversing sensors and I believe that the mileage was originally something like 5995! The extra thousand went on during five weeks before I finally bought the car . Unfortunately I can not find Ford's price list but I believe it was 28K, or more. Now I know how to produce a sad smiley. Malcolm
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #10 on: Feb 1st, 2009, 4:31pm » |
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Malcolm all the smiley's are on the posting as graphics..... If you got to " reply on the top of the posting you get all of the smiley's not just the ones shown on the quick reply box and a sad smiley is : ( but with no spaces ? smiley has ?? over his/its head
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #11 on: Feb 1st, 2009, 5:23pm » |
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So I was miles out then eh ?....I suppose £14K did seem a bit of a low guess for practically a brand new car 
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #12 on: Feb 1st, 2009, 6:50pm » |
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£19k , ?
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Malcolm73
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Re: My Ultima Has an Anniversary
« Reply #13 on: Feb 3rd, 2009, 8:53pm » |
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Hello Johnycab,
The previous owner of my Ultima was a director of a Birmingham based Ford retailer and the car was in showroom condition. Ritch1, you were not far out, it was £19250.
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