2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £7,995 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 20 April 2026 | Chatham
£7,995
127,000 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van
Listing Quality
82/100
Good
vs Market Average
-25%
Below Market
Value Retention
90/100
Slight Appreciation
Our Verdict
82 /100

This 2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £7,995 by Clairmont Car & Commercial Ltd in Chatham. It has 127,000 miles on the clock. At 25% below the market average of £10,679, this looks competitively priced based on 30 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is gaining approximately £879/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CUSTOM
Body Style Panel Van
Colour White
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 127,000 miles
Engine 2L
All Features & Equipment (42)
Top speed99 mphEngine torque (lbs/ft)265Engine torque (RPM)132Engine power (BHP)103Engine torque (NM)3,800Extra Urban (mpg)48.7Urban (mpg)38.7Combined (mpg)44.8CamshaftDOHCCylinders - bore (mm)77TransmissionManualNumber of gears6Cylinder layoutIN-LINECylinders - stroke (mm)76CC1,997Cylinders4Noise Level dB(A)2,625CO2 (g/km)167NOx (mg/km)0Standard Euro emissionsEURO 5Ultra Low Emission ZoneNon CompliantDIN-ISO Compliant Metal Bulkhead with Load Through HatchDoors - Unglazed RearPassenger Side Sliding Load Door with Track CoverTinted Glass CompleteHeight2020mmHeight inclusive of roof railsmmLength4972mmWheelbase2933mmWidth2272mmWidth including mirrorsmmLuggage capacity (seats up)585 litresLuggage capacity (seats down)1455 litresNumber of seats3Fuel tank capacity70 litresGross vehicle weight kgMax loading weight570kgMax towing weight (braked)900kgMax towing weight (unbraked)620kgTurning circle (kerb to kerb)10.2 metresMax roof loadkgTurning circle (kerb to kerb) metres
Below MarketListed at £7,995 vs market average of £10,679 (-25%)
Market Low
£7,850
Market Average
£10,679
Market High
£16,495
Comparables
30 listings

Based on 30 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation
Slight Appreciation
£447/year
Mileage Impact
Slight Appreciation
£216/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Slight Appreciation
£879/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £17,436 (£-9,441)
Mileage-predicted: £10,922 (£-2,927)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £663/yr | 10k mi/yr £879/yr | 15k mi/yr £1,095/yr

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

82
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
35 photos
10/10
Features & key selling points
42 listed
8/8
Technical specifications
6 specs provided
5/7
Competitiveness
How well does this listing compete against similar vehicles for buyer attention?
19/25Good
Clear pricing
£7,995
8/8
Monthly payment shown
Not shown
0/4
Visual presentation
35 photos
5/5
Key selling points
42 features highlighted
4/4
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 2.0l 300 Base P/V L1 H1 0D 104
4/4
Meta description
2018 Ford Transit Custom 300 Base P/V L1 H1, Manua...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
96% of 71 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?
18/25Good
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
Generic div/span markup — harder for AI to parse
1/4
Content depth
6861 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

Clairmont Car & Commercial Ltd

Chatham ME5 7BA