2017 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £7,999 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 20 April 2026 | Tonteg, Pontypridd
£7,999
159,771 miles | Diesel | Manual
Listing Quality
74/100
Good
vs Market Average
+34%
Above Market
Value Retention
65/100
Slow Depreciation
Our Verdict
74 /100

This 2017 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £7,999 by SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG in Tonteg. It has 159,771 miles on the clock. At 34% above the market average of £5,948, this is priced on the higher side compared to 8 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £647/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2017
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CUSTOM
Colour White
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 159,771 miles
Monthly Payment £206.64/mo
Above MarketListed at £7,999 vs market average of £5,948 (+34%)
Market Low
£3,950
Market Average
£5,948
Market High
£7,995
Comparables
8 listings

Based on 8 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation
Strong Appreciation
£1,643/year
Mileage Impact
Moderate Depreciation
£1,145/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Slow Depreciation
£647/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £18,353 (£-10,354)
Mileage-predicted: £7,189 (+£810)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £498/yr | 10k mi/yr £-647/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,792/yr

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

74
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?
13/25Average
Photos
20 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
0 listed
0/8
Technical specifications
4 specs provided
3/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£7,999
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£206.64/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
20 photos
5/5
Key selling points
0 features highlighted
0/4
Detailed specifications
4 specs provided
2/4
SEO Quality
Analysed from the actual dealer listing page HTML
22/25Good
Page title tag
Ford Transit Custom 2.0 TDCI 290 Panel Van 5dr Die
4/4
Meta description
2017 Ford Transit Custom 2.0 TDCI 290 Panel Van 5d...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
80% of 54 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
6612 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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About the Dealer

SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG

Tonteg, Pontypridd CF38 1PW