2017 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £16,495 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 20 April 2026 | Ashton-under-Lyne
£16,495
124,000 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van
Listing Quality
83/100
Good
vs Market Average
+72%
Above Market
Value Retention
100/100
Strong Appreciation
Our Verdict
83 /100

This 2017 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £16,495 by Ashton van sales in Ashton-under-Lyne. It has 124,000 miles on the clock. At 72% above the market average of £9,610, this is priced on the higher side compared to 28 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is gaining approximately £1,683/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2017
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CUSTOM
Body Style Panel Van
Colour Silver
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 124,000 miles
Engine 2L
Seats 3
CO2 167 g/km
Euro Status Euro 6
ULEZ Compliant Compliant
Power 104 BHP
Torque 265 lbs/ft
Cylinders 4
Gears 6
Combined MPG 46.3 mpg
Urban MPG 41.5 mpg
Extra Urban MPG 49.6 mpg
Length 4972mm
Width 1986mm
Height 2020mm
Kerb Weight 1866 kg
All Features & Equipment (30)
Engine torque (lbs/ft)265Engine power (BHP)104Extra Urban (mpg)49.6Urban (mpg)41.5Combined (mpg)46.3Cylinders - bore (mm)84TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinders - stroke (mm)90CC1,997Cylinders4CO2 (g/km)167NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEuro 6Ultra Low Emission ZoneCompliantHeight2020mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4972mmWidth1986mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up) litresLuggage capacity (seats down) litresNumber of seats3Gross vehicle weight kgMax loading weightkgMax towing weight (braked)kgMax towing weight (unbraked)kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metresMax roof loadkgMinimum kerb weight1866 kg
Above MarketListed at £16,495 vs market average of £9,610 (+72%)
Market Low
£7,850
Market Average
£9,610
Market High
£13,490
Comparables
28 listings

Based on 28 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation
Strong Appreciation
£1,643/year
Mileage Impact
Holding Value
£20/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Strong Appreciation
£1,683/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £18,353 (£-1,858)
Mileage-predicted: £10,929 (+£5,566)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £1,663/yr | 10k mi/yr £1,683/yr | 15k mi/yr £1,703/yr

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

83
Overall Listing Quality
Good — this listing is well-presented and informative.
Information & Buyer Appeal
Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?
23/25Good
Photos
18 photos
8/10
Features & key selling points
30 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
19 specs provided (incl. 11 extended)
7/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
21/25Good
Clear pricing
£16,495
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
18 photos
5/5
Key selling points
30 features highlighted
4/4
Detailed specifications
19 specs provided
4/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Ford Transit Custom 2.0 TDCI 270 Trend Panel Van 5
4/4
Meta description
2017 Ford Transit Custom Trend, Manual, In White.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
95% of 38 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?
17/25Average
Schema.org Vehicle markup
Vehicle/Car structured data found
6/6
Static HTML content
Some static content but may require JS for full data
2/5
Semantic HTML structure
Spec data in structured elements
3/4
Content depth
6602 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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