2016 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £5,695 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 21 April 2026 | Houghton le Spring
£5,695
82,929 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van
Listing Quality
57/100
Average
vs Market Average
-74%
Below Market
Value Retention
100/100
Strong Appreciation
Our Verdict
57 /100

This 2016 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £5,695 by Perspective cars and commercials in Houghton le Spring. It has 82,929 miles on the clock. At 74% below the market average of £21,842, this looks competitively priced based on 58 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is gaining approximately £2,771/year in value. The listing quality is average — it could benefit from more photos or detailed specifications.

Year 2016
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CUSTOM
Body Style Panel Van
Colour Silver
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 82,929 miles
Engine 2.2L
Below MarketListed at £5,695 vs market average of £21,842 (-74%)
Market Low
£7,490
Market Average
£21,842
Market High
£38,000
Comparables
58 listings

Based on 58 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation
Strong Appreciation
£2,234/year
Mileage Impact
Strong Appreciation
£269/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Strong Appreciation
£2,771/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £20,721 (£-15,026)
Mileage-predicted: £19,527 (£-13,832)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £2,502/yr | 10k mi/yr £2,771/yr | 15k mi/yr £3,040/yr

Based on 460 comparable listings. Slopes from smoothed depreciation curves.

57
Overall Listing Quality
Average — some areas could be improved.
Information & Buyer Appeal
Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?
5/25Poor
Photos
0 photos
0/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
6 specs provided
5/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
10/25Average
Clear pricing
£5,695
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
0 photos
0/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
6 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Ford Transit Custom 2.2 TDCI 270 Limited Panel Van
4/4
Meta description
2016 Ford Transit Custom Limited, Manual, In Silve...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
86% of 7 images have alt text
3/3
Clean URL structure
SEO-friendly URL
3/3
Heading structure
1 H1 tag(s)
3/3
Indexability
Page is indexable
2/2
AI Discoverability
How findable is this listing by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and other AI search engines?
20/25Good
Schema.org Vehicle markup
Vehicle/Car structured data found
6/6
Static HTML content
Vehicle data present in static HTML
5/5
Semantic HTML structure
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
7239 words of text content
4/4
AI crawler access
Cloudflare detected — may block GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot
0/3
Bot-friendly
Assumed accessible — robots.txt not checked
2/3
How our review page compares
This Car-Search.ai listing review page scores 95+/100 on all four categories. It includes Schema.org Vehicle + Review structured data, semantic HTML, per-page meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, canonical URLs, static HTML rendering, market analysis, depreciation vectors, and rich narrative content — fully accessible to Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and all AI search engines.

Independent review — we are not affiliated with the dealer.

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