New car

[Robby]

Well not new, but new to me.

The 190 would need a new engine to go back on the road, and is as good as sold as is.

So its been replaced with a 1996 ford scorpio 2.3 ultima. Only had it 2 days, but I like it so far. Very big and lots of toys.

 

[GrahamC230K]

Those Scorpios are pretty well fully loaded. Enjoy!

EDIT: I know someone that ran theirs pretty much dry of oil for a while too and it survived!

 

[fuzzer]

Well not new, but new to me.

The 190 would need a new engine to go back on the road, and is as good as sold as is.

So its been replaced with a 1996 ford scorpio 2.3 ultima. Only had it 2 days, but I like it so far. Very big and lots of toys.

Very nice ..... enjoy

 

[Will]

If its an Auto, watch those chocolate boxes!

I used to have a 96/N scorpio (about 4 years ago!), and it was a bargain back then (£2K, but with 120K @ 4 years old!), but did have its fair share of problems (Not the gearbox, thankfully!)

Other common faults I remember were wining rear diffs, head gaskets and drive shafts.

Nice and comfortable bargain barges though!

Good luck,

Will

 

[Brian WH]

Used to love Hiring Scorpio's in the good old days for holidays. Bit thirsty as I remember, but I was not used to Diesel economy then so didn't care.

 

[Robby]

It is an auto - quite a nice box on it, but it seems to rev a bit going into second.

They do have their fair share of problems, but this one is pretty much ok. Due a service soon, and I'll probably take it to a garage to keep up the FSH. Never had a car serviced by a garage before.

It has a MAF too. I'll be giving that a clean tomorrow to see if it makes a difference.