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Join Date: Oct 2015
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These is some great reading in this forum, thanks all!
I've been looking for a medium car, preferably diesel, to replace our seemingly indestructable but very tired Magna sedan. Today I drove a 2013 Zetec TDCi wagon and it certainly met the expectations I had from reading reviews. Great to drive! I'd be completely sold on it, but the ground clearance has me stunned. Only 112mm. The Magna is 165mm! We have occasionally gone on some fairly rough dirt roads (almost tracks a couple of times) on the way less travelled, and in the Magna it has never been an issue. The sump still has all its paint. In the MC I'm pretty sure this wouln't be the case. And there is exhaust gas sensor (?) wiring half way down the pipe that is hardly protected as well. Can anybody relate their experiences on a bit of rough road? What happens when you bottom out in a dip, apart from putting a hole in that thin plastic body fairing that is under the sump?  Guess I'd have to remember those much lower profile tyres too! Has anybody heard of the outcome of putting some of these in: http://www.spaccer.com/en_NZ/makes-a...ondeo-iii.html Cheers, |
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MC ground clearance.
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