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[Shackeng]

Hope it serves you as well as the old TD Shack

Thks Jaime, I shall be really sorry to see the old girl go, but as said, I really don't want to spend time under cars any more.

[Shackeng]

Been in a fair few Mondeos albeit for a couple of minutes at a time but they do seem nice cars that have improved greatly over the various series.Is it the very latest shape or the previous one?

16 plate will be latest/current version .....

Correct, this one has 4700 miles on it, so hopefully enough to iron out the bugs.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

240 ps petrol.

The sane choice.

[RobG]

Not sure why being a cabbie excuses you from wearing one

The law doesn`t

[TheBoy]

The early mundanos were pretty rubbish TBH.  But from mid 2000s they became much, much better. And the current style one is a pleasant, if not entirely expiring, drive.

If the golf bats fit, and room in the back for his Golf buddies, I'm sure it will serve Shack well .  Going by those at work who have had them, you do get a few niggles with some of the technology stuff, but Ford do not have exclusivity on that...

[Shackeng]

The early mundanos were pretty rubbish TBH.  But from mid 2000s they became much, much better. And the current style one is a pleasant, if not entirely expiring, drive.

If the golf bats fit, and room in the back for his Golf buddies, I'm sure it will serve Shack well .  Going by those at work who have had them, you do get a few niggles with some of the technology stuff, but Ford do not have exclusivity on that...

I must admit, I have no great hope that all the technology, of which there is plenty, will be utterly fault free, but certainly better than the first Austin A90 (in the country) that my dealer step -dad brought home. Electric hood, windows etc., all failed within 6 months. A step too far, yet pioneering in its way.

[2boxerdogs]

I really like the look of the latest Mondeo's, good luck with it.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

The early mundanos were pretty rubbish TBH.  But from mid 2000s they became much, much better. And the current style one is a pleasant, if not entirely expiring, drive.

If the golf bats fit, and room in the back for his Golf buddies, I'm sure it will serve Shack well .  Going by those at work who have had them, you do get a few niggles with some of the technology stuff, but Ford do not have exclusivity on that...

Inspiring?

[Doctor Gollum]

...... the bits of card I have shoved in the seatbelt holder have moved and not fooling it I have my seatbelt on.....

Why on earth would you not wear a seat belt?     

Because I'm a cab driver and can get away with not wearing one 

Did you 20 years+ ago 

Sorry Dave, but that's oppsing retarded...
You're one serious prang away from an airbag tearing your head off

[JamesV6CDX]

Without going into preach mode, I speak from experience in that, seatbelts are worth their weight in gold

[Doctor Gollum]

Tbh, I couldn't give a rats arse about the wearing of a belt or not, but putting one if those blanks in the receiver might turn the stupid bong off, but it also makes the car think that the belt is fastened and activates all the protection.

Ergo have any prang of substance will trigger the full fury of the restraint mechanisms on an unrestrained body. Only one outcome of that scenario.

Either wear the belt as designed or tolerate the bong and don't wear it.

Cannot stress enough that there is NO middle ground.

[Andy B]

...... the bits of card I have shoved in the seatbelt holder have moved and not fooling it I have my seatbelt on.....

Why on earth would you not wear a seat belt?     

Because I'm a cab driver and can get away with not wearing one 

Did you 20 years+ ago 

Sorry Dave, but that's oppsing retarded...
You're one serious prang away from an airbag tearing your head off

I do wear my belt now, but never did, right up to the night the law required me to do so. 
Not sure I'd  agree with the airbag tearing your head off, as I'm sure that full sized airbags were intended for use with out the use of an additional belt ...... not all States required a belt. .... & we got the same sized airbags

[Doctor Gollum]

Point is Andy, if the car thinks the belt is plugged in it WILL fire the airbags etc.

Unplugged and it won't/shouldn't ergo no airbag decapitation.

What Dave is saying is that he uses a dummy buckle to silence the warning; it serves no other function; as far as the car is concerned, the driver is wearing a seat belt and will fire the airbags etc as designed.

[omega2018]

Point is Andy, if the car thinks the belt is plugged in it WILL fire the airbags etc.

Unplugged and it won't/shouldn't ergo no airbag decapitation.

What Dave is saying is that he uses a dummy buckle to silence the warning; it serves no other function; as far as the car is concerned, the driver is wearing a seat belt and will fire the airbags etc as designed.

this is dangleberries and DANGEROUS advice

the airbags will deploy even if you have no seatbelt on.  this is a good thing, you will at least get some protection (though not wearing a seat belt is a bad thing, of course). this is why in the passenger seat you have to MANUALLY DEACTIVATE the air bag if you fit a baby seat. 

its dangerous advice because simply not plugging in a seat belt will NOT de-activate the airbag, DO NOT rely on that not to trigger the air bags and decapitate your baby. 

similarly when working near any of the airbags including side ones DO NOT take doctor gollums advice and think that because the seat belt is not plugged in you  are safe from airbag detonation. you are not.

similarly no objects must be placed in the area in which the airbags inflate, as they could cause injury when the airbags are triggered. DO NOT rely on doctor gollums advice and think that because the seat belt is not plugged in you  are safe from airbag detonation. you are not.

having said all that some omegas are fitted with "seat occupancy recognition".  this is NOT based on whether the seat belt is plugged in, or whether a dummy buckle is plugged in.  it is based on a seat weigth sensor.  from the manual

The seat occupancy
recognition system deactivates the
passenger front and side airbags if the
passenger seat is unoccupied or a
Vauxhall child restraint system with
transponders has been fitted to the
passenger seat.

vehicles with seat occupancy
recognition can be identified by the sticker
on the front passenger’s seat.

[Doctor Gollum]

We're talking about a newer Mondeo

Have crashed a Vectra C hard enough to destroy the front of the car and hole the engine. I wasn't wearing my seatbelt, or using a dummy plug, and the airbag didn't deploy. Can't speak for what might have happened had I been wearing my seatbelt.