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A set of Eibach springs for my Cougar...

Drops it 25mm and means I'll be able to go round corners without falling off the seat.

This means nothing to most of you, I know, but there are still a few refugees from www.mondeosarereallygreatcars.com out there. And the Cougar is...sort of...:nuts:
 
dropping 25mm is that all?

those things needed dropping off the white cliffs of dover :D

Still.......at least eibach were the chosen manufacturer for the FMC supplied lowering springs, so it'll still sort of go OK
 
It's not too bad... My Mondeo has the same springs and we have savage speed bumps here on camp in Uxbridge - only one of them scrapes slightly. If the exhaust falls off, I sue the Station Commander and the RAF as we've written loads of complaints. Team 2's boss, an AF Wing Commander, lost the carbon splitter off the front of his new BMW Z-thingy. But then he was driving at Mach-Plenty instead of the posted 10MPH...
 
Isn't the Cougar the replacement for the Probe? I ran a 2.5 litre Probe for 2 years and only replaced an interior light bulb. Not a bad car at all. I lost a bomb when I dropped it though. :eek:
 
digitalfailure said:
dropping 25mm is that all?

those things needed dropping off the white cliffs of dover :D

Still.......at least eibach were the chosen manufacturer for the FMC supplied lowering springs, so it'll still sort of go OK
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Meannness to Rob's is all it is...:razz:

OK so it's a crap American design, badly assembled in Germany with an engine made from cooking pots and an oil system that's prone to causing engine seizures when cornering at speed and a head-gasket made of cornflake packets.

But when working well (and lowered a bit so that it will actually go round corners), it's still a decent-enough coupe costing under £4k. And I beat my mate's Scooby Imprezza in a 'test of manliness' the other day.

It's not the car, it's the driver that really counts...

Now rearrange these words into a well-known phrase or saying:

Crisis
Mid
Life

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And yes it was the replacement for the Probe after Alan Partridge killed sales of it stone dead
 
No - I hate them.
Drove last years WRX-jobby round some Swedish forests this autumn and while it was fun, I actually preferred the 'familiarisation' drive in the old Escort Cosworth.

When I can afford one, I'll get something really stupid, like a 2nd hand 911 or a Honda NSX (boss just picked up a 10-yer old model for £20k with only 40k on the clock...minty...mmm...).
 
I don't like subaru's either, it grates me no end seeing them in full rally paint zooming up and down the streets here.
 
Rob, you must be thinking of some other car.
the head gaskets on the duratec Ve weren't that good. Grease proof paper was about as good as it got.
 
Dont be slagging fords off or we send the boys round...
Drop it properly 25mm is not noticable! ;)

The cougar is a nice mota, the V6 is more refined than its mondeo cousin... ;)
Scoobypoooo! :)
 
Gratz on a decent car, the Cougar is the ONLY Ford in the UK range that has ever interested me.


Edit.... Sorry, Scratch that... it was the Probe that I liked... so unlucky on having a Cougar. :P
 
nilagin said:
They were built in America.
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Then stripped down and rebuilt for the European market in Germany. Some of them... check the VIN plate to see where it was assembled. Mine's a German car.

(To those who don't already know - theres a lot of Blue Oval fans on this Forum... be careful what you say...)
 
Arkady said:
Then stripped down and rebuilt for the European market in Germany. Some of them... check the VIN plate to see where it was assembled. Mine's a German car.

(To those who don't already know - theres a lot of Blue Oval fans on this Forum... be careful what you say...)
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Any idea which plant, I thought they were just shipped over and had suspension tweaks and alarms installed before delivery to dealerships. I'm not aware of any German KD plants.
PS I bought myself a new Cougar on ebay last month 1/18th scale though. Cost me £20 euros including postage, on the rare occasions I saw them in the model shops in the UK they retailed at £30 or more.
 
Arkady said:
(To those who don't already know - theres a lot of Blue Oval fans on this Forum... be careful what you say...)
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The Blue oval has been kind enough to pay my wages for the past 27 years and 3 months ( I'm hoping for alot longer too) :nono: so I won't be having a bad word said against them.
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nilagin said:
The Blue oval has been kind enough to pay my wages for the past 27 years and 3 months ( I'm hoping for alot longer too) :nono: so I won't be having a bad word said against them.
:nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono: :nono:
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You better keep hoping Ford of Europe keeps making some money then.

Even I have a better credit rating than Ford Motor Company :lol:
 
digitalfailure said:
You better keep hoping Ford of Europe keeps making some money then.

Even I have a better credit rating than Ford Motor Company :lol:
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Ford of Europe seem to be doing just fine at the moment, it's just America that is struggling. Ford are about to be anounced Britains No1 for car sales for the 30th consecutive year. Shame we don't build cars here anymore though.
Credit rating can't be too bad, they've just borrowed $18billion.
 
CT said:
Isn't the Cougar the replacement for the Probe? I ran a 2.5 litre Probe for 2 years and only replaced an interior light bulb. Not a bad car at all. I lost a bomb when I dropped it though. :eek:
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Wasn't the Probe just a Mazda with a different body
 
Joe T said:
626 I assume you mean?
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Think you'll find the Probe was based on the Mazda MX6. The Probe was supposed to have been a late replacement for the Capri. The Cougar was meant to be a 2dr equivalent of the Mondeo.
 
nilagin said:
Any idea which plant, I thought they were just shipped over and had suspension tweaks and alarms installed before delivery to dealerships. I'm not aware of any German KD plants.
PS I bought myself a new Cougar on ebay last month 1/18th scale though. Cost me £20 euros including postage, on the rare occasions I saw them in the model shops in the UK they retailed at £30 or more.
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Not sure - I'm going on info from the UK Cougar Forums, which has been culled from a variety of sources. I'll get back to you on this as I was taking it as a matter of faith.

Since you work for Fraud, can you get a discount on new engines? I'd like a 3.0l V6 short block please and I'd like to pay about £5 for it :D
 
I am sorry but I have not managed to clear the tears from my eyes or stop laughing for long enough to read the rest of this thread but did someone say they owned a Ford Cougar?

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Oh it was you Rob. I'll get me coat.......:coat:
 
OK OK! I am sorry, but I have had four years of my IT supplier driving one and me taking the **** out of it. It gave him good service and once rescued me from a drunken weekend in Glasgow so appreciate it's back seat comfort (ahem) and reliability. The poor boy doesn't learn though - he bought a jag! :bonk:
 
Arkady said:
Not sure - I'm going on info from the UK Cougar Forums, which has been culled from a variety of sources. I'll get back to you on this as I was taking it as a matter of faith.

Since you work for Fraud, can you get a discount on new engines? I'd like a 3.0l V6 short block please and I'd like to pay about £5 for it :D
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When I was an apprentice many moons ago, they still made the old 3.0 Essex V6 at Dagenham and I knew a bloke who could get whole engines out the factory gates. He used to drop them in Transits and Cortinas or similar, back in the days when cars were customised not modded. Metal flake paint and the like.
 
To be hnest, it's only the build-quality that lets it down - really plasticky interior and rubbish trim. Most of us who own them take a few minutes to tighten evrything up once a month and to add a few bits of sponge to deaden the rattles.
The sun-roof was a disgrace - early ones had plastic runners which got brittle after a couple of winters and fell apart - replacements from Ford were over £800.
Putting a decent spring kit on improves the handling immeasurably (as it does with Mk2 Mondeos, which share the same chassis/sub-frame/suspension...90% of everything else), an aftermarket water pump solves the HG issues. After that, it's just a matter of keeping an eye on all the other rubbishy, cheap Ford components and catch them before they fail.
At the end of the day, this car cost me £4.5k with 34,000 on the clock. Even if I spend another £5k on keeping it running over the next 10 years (assuming I keep it that long), it's still a bargain.
What killed sales of this car was Ford's asking price of over £21k new. £15k maybe...maybe.
 
Also ordered a BlueFlame SS twin exit exhaust. £120 cheaper then the stock Fraud item...

Now it'll sound like a V6 instead of a quietly-burbling shopping trolley.
 
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