Post a picture of your car here Part 4 (quote a picture, get a 24h ban!!)

GvidoR

Escort friend. :pac:

Alanstrainor

You hardly see any escorts around these days! Rare to park up next to another!

bear1

Boyle?

GvidoR

bear1 wrote: »

Boyle?

Yes, sir. Good eye.

bear1

I remember I was at that petrol station back in October while heading to visit Lough Key.

Hal1

That one in front must be the ghia spec with the chrome trim over the reg. Looks like it's sitting lower or just knackered springs/shocks?

pudzey101

been after a 320d for awhile my luck came in over Christmas , in black , a coupe , alloys , leather seats , m sport interior

shietpilot

Hal1 wrote: »

That one in front must be the ghia spec with the chrome trim over the reg. Looks like it's sitting lower or just knackered springs/shocks?

Fully loaded with stuff from the sales I reckon :pac:

pudzey101 wrote: »

been after a 320d for awhile my luck came in over Christmas , in black , a coupe , alloys , leather seats , m sport interior

Nice 3 series that. The 320Cd's seem quite rare. You usually only see the saloons with the 2.0 diesel engine.

power pants

Hal1 wrote: »

That one in front must be the ghia spec with the chrome trim over the reg. Looks like it's sitting lower or just knackered springs/shocks?

you would be right in general as I had a 98 demo ghia car with all the add ons but I think the late 00 models came with ghia spec as standard

GvidoR

Looks better without the chrome, imo. What else came on the Ghia model?

NickDunne

GvidoR wrote: »

Looks better without the chrome, imo. What else came on the Ghia model?

Alloys

Wood effect dash :pac:

Leccy windows/mirrors

Tilt and slide sunroof :pac: :pac:

and a couple of poxy badges. Not 100% sure about a/c

rizzodun

power pants wrote: »

you would be right in general as I had a 98 demo ghia car with all the add ons but I think the late 00 models came with ghia spec as standard

There's a lot to be said for picking up end of line models, I remember the N15 Almera I had was just before the N16 came out, so it got electric sunroof, electric windows etc (some other things I can't remember right now). as standard to shift the last lot of models out the door.

Hal1

Quite a site alright, handy spot for the electric windows.

power pants

that was identical to mine, like the window switches there, same on my current car too. Even had head rests on the back seats which were uncommon on that size of car back then. Nice tinted windows factory spec and fog lights, sports grill and sunroof.

for an escort it looked really good back then

GvidoR

Hal1 wrote: »

Quite a site alright, handy spot for the electric windows.

Mine has electric windows in the same spot.
Thankfully I don't have the wood dash. :P
Mine doesn't have passenger side airbag or electric mirrors.
OEM radio and clock are slightly different.
Other than that the interior is the same.

BTW didn't look like the Escort in front had a sunroof.

Noccy_Mondy

kodirl wrote:

Roll on Monday- will be collecting my new Performance Pack GTI

What's the idea behind the clingy plastic on the bonnet and roof. You'd often see it on newly arrived cars. To prevent damage, scrapes etc?

Voodoomelon

Automotive protective film. Bit of a waste really, cars are rarely if ever entirely covered in it and it protects from nothing more than extremely light grit and rain. You can even see in this case its on the bonnet and roof, which is effectively pointless. Makes it look like they're making an effort though.

colm_mcm

It's generally only on horizontal parts of the car like the roof/bonnet. Bird droppings or other shoite could really damage paint.

bazz26

I wonder is our man in Co Laois collecting his annual new Ford Focus this year?

Noccy_Mondy

bazz26 wrote:

I wonder is our man in Co Laois collecting his annual new Ford Focus this year?

Was just about to go dig up last years thread to ask that question!

JoeA3

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

What's the idea behind the clingy plastic on the bonnet and roof. You'd often see it on newly arrived cars. To prevent damage, scrapes etc?

More so to prevent fallout from the sky - bird crap, iron filings, etc, as it's really only on the roof / bonnet. Most new cars often spend a fair amount of time on railway tracks and sitting around in dock-side compounds.

JoeA3

My Dad had 2 Escort's in the 1990's, the interior was a lot like the one posted above barring the horrid fake "wood"

I spent a lot of my formative driving years driving his 2nd one in an effort to impress the ladies lol. It was a 1996 "CLX" Escort Saloon and was quite a nice car for it's day. Leccy window switches near the gearstick alright which seemed to make sense back then but would be a major oddity today! It had a nice factory stereo - a bigger button double din job, not like the one in that pic. TBH though, when the Focus came along in 1999 the Escort dated very rapidly.

GvidoR

JoeA3 wrote: »

My Dad had 2 Escort's in the 1990's, the interior was a lot like the one posted above barring the horrid fake "wood"

I spent a lot of my formative driving years driving his 2nd one in an effort to impress the ladies lol. It was a 1996 "CLX" Escort Saloon and was quite a nice car for it's day. Leccy window switches near the gearstick alright which seemed to make sense back then but would be a major oddity today! It had a nice factory stereo - a bigger button double din job, not like the one in that pic. TBH though, when the Focus came along in 1999 the Escort dated very rapidly.

Was it like this? This is what I have in mine.

JoeA3

Yep that was it! The early Focus's had a similar unit. the "6000" version had CD rather than tape. How do I remember this stuff...

GvidoR

JoeA3 wrote: »

Yep that was it! The early Focus's had a similar unit. the "6000" version had CD rather than tape. How do I remember this stuff...

I just noticed Noccy Mondy has one like that in his MK1 Focus.

Noccy_Mondy wrote: »

davycc

JoeA3 wrote: »

Yep that was it! The early Focus's had a similar unit. the "6000" version had CD rather than tape. How do I remember this stuff...

yea i had the same cd6000 double din in my 98 puma 1.7
the puma had some cooler touches like white dials, crome silver gearknob,
the factory stereo and some dash buttons where silver coloured not black like yours:D

davycc

GvidoR wrote: »

Was it like this? This is what I have in mine.

had the exact same in my mk2 late 90s mondeo too;)

NickDunne

Lets all have a go :pac:

Noccy_Mondy

Ya I have the 6000cd in mine, decided to stick with oem.

When I bought the car this was in it, first thing out.



All I could get my hands on was a traffic 5000, which was shyte, but I had the mp3 tape deck so it wasn't too bad.



The dial got fooked on that, (and it didn't say what radio station, only the frequency) so I got the 6000 cd, which is what's standard in the mk1.5 focus. (says build date in 2007 on the back of it, so it's fairly fresh, think it came out of one of the older transits)

GvidoR

Luckily there was one of those aux cable cassette tapes in the glove box when I got the Escort. :pac:

Oddly enough I haven't used it yet though, been listening to the radio.