Has anyone else noticed how many old style Mondeos there are on the road with broken bumpers? I noticed one or two and now I can't stop myself looking at any I meet mondeo to see if its bumper is intact (about 1 in 10 are not).
I other peoples experiance are then any other cars that always seem to have similar damage?
Jon
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Also on Mondeos but on newer ones with big plastic bumpers... have you noticed how many of them seem to be flapping in the wind as they travel at high speed on motorways? Scary!
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One of my drinking colleagues has a V plate Mundaneo with the very same problem. He said the cause was reversing into a car park space with those awkward protruding triangular curbs, which caught the bumper and damaged the mechanism holding it to the car. He eventually replaced it, and the old one now makes an unusual purple water feature in his back garden.
I've seen a couple of discarded mondeo bumpers by the roadside myself, must be a design fault.
Ed.
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Damage apart, how we miss the days when bumpers had strong vinyl inserts so that the slightest dent didn't always show up, as opposed to the current all painted front and rear plastic (and not too strong) valences. Must have been designed as a sop to ensure the respraying firms always have plenty of work. Another case, surely, of Hutber's Law at work:
Improvement Means Deterioration.
El Hacko
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I repaired my company car Mondeo bumper with Ispon bumper filler, sprayed it the correct colour with off the shelf sprak from big H and no one noticed. Cost about £12.
No need to tell the leasing company.
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