- the body is made as streamlined as possible and provides maximum safety for passengers;
- the airbag system is installed as standard on the driver's side, an airbag can be installed on the front passenger side upon request. All cars are equipped with seat belt pretensioners as standard;
- limousines with electronically controlled automatic suspension adjustment system are available on special order. Station wagons can be equipped with the Boge-Nivomat self-leveling system already used on Sierra vehicles;
- an electronically controlled anti-lock braking system (ABS) is installed on request or as standard. In this case, a hydraulic control device from Bendix is built into the standard braking system. Models equipped with ABS may also have an electronic wheel drive adjustment system built in to control wheel slip on wet or icy roads;
- all models are equipped with an electronic engine management system with a computer and a catalytic converter;
- a dual-circuit brake system with diagonal brake wiring is installed. In the basic version, blown brake discs with sliding brake saddles are installed on the front wheels and drum brakes on the rear wheels. On the clamping and releasing brake shoes of the rear wheel brakes, the thickness of the brake linings is selected in such a way as to ensure their uniform wear. More powerful models use disc brakes for the rear wheels. In this case, discs made of hard material and brake saddles with pistons operating in antiphase are installed. On all versions with a braking system without ABS, pressure reducing valves are installed in the outlet channels of the master brake cylinder in order to regulate the hydraulic pressure on the rear wheels and thereby reduce the risk of locking the rear wheels during sudden braking;
Fig. 1. General view of the 16V engine
- The 16V engines installed in the Mondeo were slightly modified when they were launched in May 1998. Before that time, they had developed 66, 85 and 100 kW. All three engine versions have an identical crankshaft. The different cylinder volumes were achieved by changing the cylinder diameter. These engines are called Zetec-E. The power of the 1.6- and 1.8-liter engines was retained after May 1998, while the power of the 2.0-liter engine was reduced to 96 kW. The Engine section provides a more detailed look at the engine design and the changes that affected them starting in May 1998. Fig. 1 shows a general view of the engine;
- The 2.5 liter engine is offered in two versions. The base engine model produces 125 kW. In addition, under the 2.5 ST 200 brand, they sell an engine with a power of 151 kW, designated as 2.5 Duratec-VE. Due to the large difference between the 16V engines and the 2.5-liter engine, the latter is described in a separate section at the end of the manual;
- all vehicles with petrol engines comply with environmental protection standards - 96 EEC;
- Mondeo cars use the MTX 75 gearbox, which has already been tested on previous models; only the gear ratios have changed slightly to better match the vehicle's weight and engine power. The clutch is not self-adjusting;
- the cars use a new automatic gearbox, the hydraulic shifting of which is controlled electronically via the EEC V module. If the electronic control system fails, the emergency program is activated. The gearbox has four forward gears due to two drives on planetary gears. Engine braking is carried out in all gears;
- the front suspension consists of shock absorber struts with transverse arms and an anti-roll bar. The transverse arms and the anti-roll bar are mounted on a subframe, separately bolted to the bottom of the car. The transverse arms with rubber supports are attached with horizontal and vertical screws to the subframe. On the outer side of each transverse arm of the suspension, a suspension ball joint is mounted, which is connected to the steering knuckle. On the Mondeo with an engine power of 272 kW, a different transverse arm of the suspension is built in. The car is driven through drive shafts with constant velocity joints;
- the rear wheel suspension on the limousine consists of rods and McPherson shock absorber struts. These are two horizontally located transverse rods on each side of the car, which are attached at one end to the rear suspension beam, and at the other end to the cast-iron bracket of the rear wheel hub. The third lever is a strut that connects the wheel bracket to the bearing bracket lying in front of it on the body. The struts counteract the braking forces. The shock absorber strut, fixed in the upper part of the wheel bracket, determines the camber of the rear wheels and counteracts the torques that occur during braking;
- on a station wagon, three independent suspension arms are used on each side - one forged upper arm and two lower side stamped arms. The side arms are mounted in rubber mounts on the crossmember and wheel bracket. An anti-roll bar is installed as standard. As on limousines, one strut, firmly screwed in rubber mounts to the bottom and wheel bracket, is mounted on each side of the car. The shock absorbers and coil springs are located separately (the same is true for cars with self-leveling). The shock absorbers are installed between the wheel brackets and cross beams; the coil springs are located between the lower lateral arms and the cross beam. This allowed the station wagon to have a flat cargo area.
[Information for this article was taken from the website: FordBook.ru]