Update,
Parts finally came in and she had a new friction plate pressure plate on Friday and slave fitted by the main dealer all in came to around £680 still a rip off if you ask me. Friction plate had worn down but DMF ok although had a few high spots, which seems odd on a 16k mile car. Major mag involved as I said so will see what comes out of it all
p!! him off so much that he is going to hand it back to Ford credit at 2 yrs old next Easter and walk away, to the land of the Vorsprung and get an A4 or similar
Real shame as being a ford man throughout the 80s and 90s I had really hoped this would give him 3 years of decent trouble free motoring

That's said we dropped Ford from our fleet in 2000 due to all the warranty issues I had with my brand new shape Y reg Mondeo TDDI that Ford tried to get out of like ludicrously claiming carrying 50 kg of tool boxes in estate cars was not what it was designed for when the suspension design caused it to rip off a set of rear tyres in 3k miles, and we have been on VW Audi and BMW ever since