Used to change the whole subframe for a service exchange one from my parts supplier. Time ive pushed the bushes out and in it was more cost effective to swap it. Thanks again got 30 mins of armchair entertainment
Greetings from Poland! Thanks to your video I was able to replace the subframe bushes in my Mondeo MK3. It took me 3 hours 😆 Thanks a lot and keep doing good stuff!
Had mine subframe replaced and the new one came with poly bushes so maybe thats the norm now. Love your videos mate, never fail to cheer me up in these weird times.
Alan,👍👍! I still have My MK3 estate, 200k miles, it certainly needs a plenty of work beneath, both in back & in front too... Not easy to find somebody to do it...
I normally purchase a remanufactured subframe that has already fitted with new bushes in it for not much dearer than the price of a set of bushes from E C P on an exchange basis , cheers Alan
Thanks mate, my mk3 probably needs this. It's 17 years old and still on the originals. Hahaha. I will be re-watching this in future, so don't take it down. Cheers
Wow great skills. Wish you lived closer. You could help me on my Jeep. Struggling with a string trimmer tonight. This was a good presentation mate. The air wrench scared my dog.haha
Did mine on the car on axle stands. Do the o/s two first then the n/s. Like you I made up some screwed rod, washers and different size pipe fitting sockets. Mark the position of the frame before releasing the mounting bolts so as to get it back as near as pos. Ford use locating pins. I replaced the rubber bushes with poly, a lot quicker and easier, plus they will never wear out again. Not a nice job to do but saves you a bunch of money as against having a garage do it.
Excellent video, thanks! I have a mk3 mondeo TDDI which required replacement of the rear bushes at about 70k miles - I used the better quality 'poly' bushes and the car now has 210k miles and there is still no noise from the rear subframe. Maybe most people who replaced their bushes many years ago used the better ones and they did not need replacing since?
you are very watchable and you have your own style ...im a ford man and some usefull stuff. Just enough fun and Monica added. But still primarily a car programme --good all rounder
You are absolutely completely bonkers. Mad as a hatter. A loon. Barking. You should be famous and have your own TV show. Great channel.. I burst out laughing all the time. I got these bushes done on my mk3 taxi at around 150000, along with my clutch. Now the steering rack needs done.. It'll be a completely new car soon. I'm aiming for 300,000 😂👍
The 6 months extension on the mots must have put a right crimp on your turn over! but just think, in six months there will be twice as many folk needing an mot, you will be able to name your price!
Hello Allan. I need to replace the rear subframe seals, but in Hungary it is not legal to install a polyurethane seal. Thank you in advance for your help and answer. Sincerely, László H.
Damn Alan, the work you have just on all those camera angles, amazing job! Do you remember if the MK3's would sink the brake pedals with some pressure with the engine running? My X type has been in the garage for 1 month now because of that, new master cylinder and the brake booster is being adjusted correctly, also they just replaced the hydraulic part of the abs module with one from a Mondeo, hopefully they get the hang of it right now... Cheers!
Alan Monikas hair looks better brown don’t you think? Also will the huntingdon ninja be making an appearance after lockdown? Last time was metal detectors lol great videos SEE YAAAA
lol, yes the red was an experiment, mark has been out and about, we have made quite a few vids with air rifles and tracking around woodlands but i don't put those vids on this channel, cheers
How about a video about adding a perspex partition between the driver in front and passengers in the back, fan on in the front to keep the virus away, it could put more of the fleet back on the road :)
funny thing is lots of taxis like peugeot experts e7 already get fitted with these partitions..but more for safety reasons, that won't happen here on the mondeos..looks like its clearing up now
Should have polybushed them. You leave the outer metal sleeve in place, just remove the rubber and press in the polyurethane ones. Can be done easily without removing the subframe and takes about an hour per side. Also no need to leave the car on the ramp overnight whilst the glue dries. Paying someone to do it it cost me £200 all in.
Hello on minute 14 you say to put the bush closest to the roll bar with the 2 slots to the lenth of the car but with my mondeo mk3 of 2002 that bushes are placed in the width of the car and I don't know witch way I should place the new ones.???
Hi Alan, hope you're having a lovely holiday in the Philippines, Sorry to talk shop but have you ever had to take the sill cover's off a MK3 Mondeo st estate, I believe they're bonded on. Des
Is the subfram the same for all the body styles? This one is off a hatchbakc? I was thingking since the estates have a different suspension setup. The bushings are naturally the same but the rest of the stuff?
😁😁 yes they already are but it's good to reach out everywhere. Shame, it was such a great car. Really enjoyed seeing the MK3 videos. I learnt by doing, but your vids would habe been great.
Hi Alan. Love your videos. I have a 2008 mondeo titanium 2.3L automatic. I wanted to change the oil and filter on the transmission. I have no oil filter on mine. I contacted Ford and my model has a, as they quoted Life Long Auto Gearbox. Have you heard of this.
If you're bored ill offer to bring my mk4 down! I bought in July of 2019, forgot to get the service history from the dealer (long story) never got it in the post as promised. Changed the oil, filter and air filter car had 126k miles on now at 131k other than that could do with telling me what's wrong with it
@@alan4x not too sure, feels like a power drop. Sometimes it pulls well and then it'll drop down all of a sudden or do a bit of a judder. There's no warning codes or anything on the ECU no engine management lights or anything else either. Apart from that I need to replace the front bumper and undertray as they got cracked. Wobble in the steering even after the wheels have been balanced, brake pads and replacer of the switches on the steering wheen haha 😂 I've got plenty to keep me occupied during lockdown Edit* I also need to replace that wet belt as its a 1.8tdci and change the pulley on the alternator
My MoT guy told me my car was a write-off due to this fault!! He said the job wasn’t worth doing on 2002 car. I believed him until I watched your video. Now I know that he lied to me, and I could even do the job myself. This is a great example of two things: First of all, I found your clowning around at the beginning very annoying and nearly didn’t bother watching. But I persevered and you ended up providing me with some excellent and extremely valuable information; Secondly, if it wasn’t for the utter insanity of the totally pointless and criminal lockdowns, you almost certainly wouldn’t have made this video. So every cloud has a silver lining. Finally, even though I’m in Derby which is 88 miles and 1 hour 40 minutes away, I’m seriously considering asking you to quote on the job and do my MoT next year. I will without doubt recommend your channel to everyone I know, and hope it brings some good tidings your way. Thank you again for sharing this valuable advice. Peace
well thanks g58, your bang on about the criminal lockdowns for sure, and yes i will certainly mot your car and fix anything that i am capable of, have a good one and thanks for your comment
There is a malfunction on my mk3 mondeo that has been bothering me for a while. The interior lights suddenly broke down. I changed the small fuse in the fuse box but it didn't work. the lamps are not broken. The fuse box is not broken. elecrick flow seems normal. No mechanic could fix it. if anyone knows the answer please help :(((
Is it possible the lattereal acc sensor throws a phantom code if the front subframe is misaligned on the MK3's? It started throwing the code after I changed the left control arm and track rod end. (The steering wheel is about 5deg off center ) I'm expecting to get the subframe alignment pins next week.
Hi mate been watching your videos I have a mondeo mk4 want to beef up suspension front and rear also lift the wagon a couple of inches can you help me Aussie Lee
My Mk 5 needs a MOT and I am being nagged to change the oil, fuel is the lowest price for years, time for a service but I have the only mk5 that my tame mechanic deals with and others are closed :( Service has to be without changing the pollen filter as the more blocked it is the smaller it will filter, ideally the virus :)
if your stuck for content, why not do a video on tools, specialist tools/unusual tools etc or even a history of the car`s steve`s taxi`s has had over the years, telling us the common fault`s with each car, but people LOVE tool vids mate !!!!
kiwitrains - All of the deaths are being created by changing the reasons that people are dying from what they are really dying of to this fake virus - go watch the UK Column INDEPENDENT news videos on here that expose this and how there are NOT any more people dying this year compared to previous years as per the governments own figures. Also the VIROLOGIST Dr Stefan Lanka proved in the German Supreme Court in 2017 that viruses do NOT exist so how can there them be a pandemic and funny how that mainstream media are not reporting on any of that. Wonder why lots of this doctors videos have been banned off of UA-cam and social media etc - maybe the fact that he is totally exposing this FAKE virus as well ua-cam.com/video/1ShnPzwFl2Q/v-deo.html
you would be better spending your time getting educated rather than fear mungering and spoon fed from your lying government. ua-cam.com/video/vrL9QKGQrWk/v-deo.html
Thanks for finding something to teach us despite not having any work to do, it’s much appreciated.
Used to change the whole subframe for a service exchange one from my parts supplier. Time ive pushed the bushes out and in it was more cost effective to swap it. Thanks again got 30 mins of armchair entertainment
Same here.
cheers🤪
Thanks Alan for keeping us entertained during this lockdown hopefully you will be back to some normality as soon as possible
cheers
Hi Alan. Can you help me with my car ford mondeo mk4 with turbo pressure valve problem.
07737475189
When you were on the roof I was expecting Ms M to come along and say what idiot left this ladder here, and put it away lol
i was going to have her walk past and whistle at her but she was too busy that day it never happened🤨
Greetings from Poland! Thanks to your video I was able to replace the subframe bushes in my Mondeo MK3. It took me 3 hours 😆
Thanks a lot and keep doing good stuff!
Had mine subframe replaced and the new one came with poly bushes so maybe thats the norm now. Love your videos mate, never fail to cheer me up in these weird times.
cheers
Thank you and greetings from Germany.
Welcome!
Alan you are a great entertainer as well as an excellent mechanic well done.
thanks
Brilliant videos Alan very informative and a very good knowledge of the old potato got myself a mk3 st tdci n love it yaaaa
cheers andy
Alan,👍👍! I still have My MK3 estate, 200k miles, it certainly needs a plenty of work beneath, both in back & in front too... Not easy to find somebody to do it...
Another subber here from sunny SW Scotland!!!...this channel has been my go to during lockdown 👍
lol, cheers
I normally purchase a remanufactured subframe that has already fitted with new bushes in it for not much dearer than the price of a set of bushes from E C P on an exchange basis , cheers Alan
thats good to know, cheers
Thanks mate, my mk3 probably needs this. It's 17 years old and still on the originals. Hahaha. I will be re-watching this in future, so don't take it down. Cheers
Good to see another video and thanks for the content, Alan.
My pleasure!
Power flex poly bushes Alan I’ve done my Mondeo mk4 all round absolutely brilliant things
Thank you. Very useful. Greetings from Croatia.
cheers
Wow great skills. Wish you lived closer. You could help me on my Jeep. Struggling with a string trimmer tonight. This was a good presentation mate. The air wrench scared my dog.haha
hi joe, thanks for the comment, hope all is good with you and jassy🙃😊
Haha live your health and safety approach lol. Stay safe and get busy
🤣
Did mine on the car on axle stands. Do the o/s two first then the n/s. Like you I made up some screwed rod, washers and different size pipe fitting sockets. Mark the position of the frame before releasing the mounting bolts so as to get it back as near as pos. Ford use locating pins. I replaced the rubber bushes with poly, a lot quicker and easier, plus they will never wear out again. Not a nice job to do but saves you a bunch of money as against having a garage do it.
Excellent video, thanks! I have a mk3 mondeo TDDI which required replacement of the rear bushes at about 70k miles - I used the better quality 'poly' bushes and the car now has 210k miles and there is still no noise from the rear subframe. Maybe most people who replaced their bushes many years ago used the better ones and they did not need replacing since?
Nice explanation Alan
Great video Alan 👍👍 How’s about doing a video on mk3 Mondeo manual gearbox oil change
you are very watchable and you have your own style ...im a ford man and some usefull stuff. Just enough fun and Monica added. But still primarily a car programme --good all rounder
Actually laughed out loud when you slammed it on the table. Comedy gold.
Mónica is so cute. Gracias por tus videos son muy educativos
Great advice. Thank you for sharing
You are so welcome!
Very informative, thanks for posting
You are absolutely completely bonkers. Mad as a hatter. A loon. Barking. You should be famous and have your own TV show. Great channel.. I burst out laughing all the time. I got these bushes done on my mk3 taxi at around 150000, along with my clutch. Now the steering rack needs done.. It'll be a completely new car soon. I'm aiming for 300,000 😂👍
lmao, thanks for the compliments🤪😂
nice one alan, under chassis work is to hard because too many thing need to remove.
hi mack..so sorry i forgot to go to your channel, will do now..cheers
Any content is great content
Cheers boss
Thank you very very much for your remarks, whoop, whoop !!!!
😜🙃
The 6 months extension on the mots must have put a right crimp on your turn over! but just think, in six months there will be twice as many folk needing an mot, you will be able to name your price!
yeah it is dead at the moment, but cheers
Hello Allan. I need to replace the rear subframe seals, but in Hungary it is not legal to install a polyurethane seal. Thank you in advance for your help and answer. Sincerely, László H.
My old mondeo went on the back used to bang like hell my 07 got advised on the d bushes
I am getting lazy aswell. Be Blessed
Looking for a mech to do some work on my ST220 including bushes... you seem very knowledgeable
Alan I don't think that you are lazy but just a little bit busy with jobs coming in
Damn Alan, the work you have just on all those camera angles, amazing job!
Do you remember if the MK3's would sink the brake pedals with some pressure with the engine running? My X type has been in the garage for 1 month now because of that, new master cylinder and the brake booster is being adjusted correctly, also they just replaced the hydraulic part of the abs module with one from a Mondeo, hopefully they get the hang of it right now...
Cheers!
Alan Monikas hair looks better brown don’t you think? Also will the huntingdon ninja be making an appearance after lockdown? Last time was metal detectors lol great videos SEE YAAAA
lol, yes the red was an experiment, mark has been out and about, we have made quite a few vids with air rifles and tracking around woodlands but i don't put those vids on this channel, cheers
Great video as usual Alan i have a theory that you are actually Steve you don't want to tell us in case we try to tap you for a few quid.
lol, no i really am not steve
How about a video about adding a perspex partition between the driver in front and passengers in the back, fan on in the front to keep the virus away, it could put more of the fleet back on the road :)
funny thing is lots of taxis like peugeot experts e7 already get fitted with these partitions..but more for safety reasons, that won't happen here on the mondeos..looks like its clearing up now
Should have polybushed them. You leave the outer metal sleeve in place, just remove the rubber and press in the polyurethane ones. Can be done easily without removing the subframe and takes about an hour per side. Also no need to leave the car on the ramp overnight whilst the glue dries. Paying someone to do it it cost me £200 all in.
if i owned a mk3 i would but this car is going to scrap yard and i don't have any poly bushes to show but thanks
A hammer? Don't you mean the 'manual adjuster'?
Hello on minute 14 you say to put the bush closest to the roll bar with the 2 slots to the lenth of the car but with my mondeo mk3 of 2002 that bushes are placed in the width of the car and I don't know witch way I should place the new ones.???
Just about to do mine...
Hi Alan, hope you're having a lovely holiday in the Philippines,
Sorry to talk shop but have you ever had to take the sill cover's off a MK3 Mondeo st estate, I believe they're bonded on. Des
Hi would you know how to alighn a front subframe on a 2009 transit conect ? 1.8tdci Cheers
getting a similar job done tomorrow on my 08 s max.
Thank you!
Is the subfram the same for all the body styles? This one is off a hatchbakc? I was thingking since the estates have a different suspension setup. The bushings are naturally the same but the rest of the stuff?
Any chance of a toolbox tour while your quiet
On the Mk3 Estate what is the problem when a rear wheel gets the camber out of spec? Bent arm? Which one?
How much does a job like that cost to replace both rear pin or bushes on a renault megane 09 plate including labor ? cheers pal
"Don't run off Monica, I'll be needing your services later." Really?
lol
Great tutorial video. I had a MK3 tdci and did loads on it myself until sadly the engine packed up. Need any unused reconditioned injectors???
not any more, guessing put them on ebay
😁😁 yes they already are but it's good to reach out everywhere. Shame, it was such a great car. Really enjoyed seeing the MK3 videos. I learnt by doing, but your vids would habe been great.
Hi Alan. Love your videos. I have a 2008 mondeo titanium 2.3L automatic. I wanted to change the oil and filter on the transmission. I have no oil filter on mine. I contacted Ford and my model has a, as they quoted Life Long Auto Gearbox. Have you heard of this.
Can you leave me a link to buy the bush or give me the measurement of one in length and height in millimeters
If you're bored ill offer to bring my mk4 down! I bought in July of 2019, forgot to get the service history from the dealer (long story) never got it in the post as promised.
Changed the oil, filter and air filter car had 126k miles on now at 131k other than that could do with telling me what's wrong with it
what's wrong with it
@@alan4x not too sure, feels like a power drop. Sometimes it pulls well and then it'll drop down all of a sudden or do a bit of a judder.
There's no warning codes or anything on the ECU no engine management lights or anything else either.
Apart from that I need to replace the front bumper and undertray as they got cracked.
Wobble in the steering even after the wheels have been balanced, brake pads and replacer of the switches on the steering wheen haha 😂
I've got plenty to keep me occupied during lockdown
Edit* I also need to replace that wet belt as its a 1.8tdci and change the pulley on the alternator
My MoT guy told me my car was a write-off due to this fault!! He said the job wasn’t worth doing on 2002 car.
I believed him until I watched your video. Now I know that he lied to me, and I could even do the job myself.
This is a great example of two things:
First of all, I found your clowning around at the beginning very annoying and nearly didn’t bother watching. But I persevered and you ended up providing me with some excellent and extremely valuable information;
Secondly, if it wasn’t for the utter insanity of the totally pointless and criminal lockdowns, you almost certainly wouldn’t have made this video. So every cloud has a silver lining.
Finally, even though I’m in Derby which is 88 miles and 1 hour 40 minutes away, I’m seriously considering asking you to quote on the job and do my MoT next year.
I will without doubt recommend your channel to everyone I know, and hope it brings some good tidings your way.
Thank you again for sharing this valuable advice.
Peace
well thanks g58, your bang on about the criminal lockdowns for sure, and yes i will certainly mot your car and fix anything that i am capable of, have a good one and thanks for your comment
There is a malfunction on my mk3 mondeo that has been bothering me for a while. The interior lights suddenly broke down. I changed the small fuse in the fuse box but it didn't work. the lamps are not broken. The fuse box is not broken. elecrick flow seems normal. No mechanic could fix it. if anyone knows the answer please help :(((
Is it possible the lattereal acc sensor throws a phantom code if the front subframe is misaligned on the MK3's? It started throwing the code after I changed the left control arm and track rod end. (The steering wheel is about 5deg off center ) I'm expecting to get the subframe alignment pins next week.
What make is your red gun. It seems really powerful & just what I'm looking for.
Hi Alan, thanks for a great video!
Do you run your own garage? If so, where are you based? 😁
no i just work there... we are in little stukeley, huntingdon
@@alan4x thank you! Just sent an email to the office 😁
Hi, can you fit a Turbosmart BOV to a standard mondeo mk5 2.0 TDCi estate?
Hi mate been watching your videos I have a mondeo mk4 want to beef up suspension front and rear also lift the wagon a couple of inches can you help me Aussie Lee
Can't you get the poly inserts like my s60, easier and effective and transforms the car
My Mk 5 needs a MOT and I am being nagged to change the oil, fuel is the lowest price for years, time for a service but I have the only mk5 that my tame mechanic deals with and others are closed :(
Service has to be without changing the pollen filter as the more blocked it is the smaller it will filter, ideally the virus :)
A fellow egg head mondeo man like myself
Is that an estate or saloon
I work at a mot garage and I still have to pay £30 😂
if your stuck for content, why not do a video on tools, specialist tools/unusual tools etc or even a history of the car`s steve`s taxi`s has had over the years, telling us the common fault`s with each car, but people LOVE tool vids mate !!!!
Hope you dont throw your miss's around like you parts in these videos haha
Does your garage accept private car repair jobs? You seem to have made quite a rep in fixing Ford cars.
we do private repairs when we can
Could I get some contact info of yours?
Maybe you don't change them anymore as the owners are putting Poly bushes in, as they will outlive the car
Why UK cars get so rusty???
Miss mmmmmmmmmm more like 😂😉
Get some flowers in that hanging basket,if tha wants summat to do Alan.
yes they do need filling up, cheers
2nd
21:58 No work ethic in the youth of today. 😂
Push that Bush. Rude.
Crappy and cheaply made
Mot £24 but you will be failed
It’s not stupid look at the deaths in your country.
ua-cam.com/video/ScPTpy0wBDc/v-deo.html well see
kiwitrains - All of the deaths are being created by changing the reasons that people are dying from what they are really dying of to this fake virus - go watch the UK Column INDEPENDENT news videos on here that expose this and how there are NOT any more people dying this year compared to previous years as per the governments own figures. Also the VIROLOGIST Dr Stefan Lanka proved in the German Supreme Court in 2017 that viruses do NOT exist so how can there them be a pandemic and funny how that mainstream media are not reporting on any of that. Wonder why lots of this doctors videos have been banned off of UA-cam and social media etc - maybe the fact that he is totally exposing this FAKE virus as well ua-cam.com/video/1ShnPzwFl2Q/v-deo.html
@William Woods Absolute Rubbish, are you from the US you need a reality check ,
@@alan4x Some good points some rubbish it is still not stupid, pity your customers when you start to cough and sneeze!!!
you would be better spending your time getting educated rather than fear mungering and spoon fed from your lying government. ua-cam.com/video/vrL9QKGQrWk/v-deo.html