2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £9,950 Listing Review

Item: 2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM
Rating: 61
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 21 April 2026 | Rettendon Place, Wickford

£9,950

89,127 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van

Listing Quality

61/100

Average

vs Market Average

-48%

Below Market

Value Retention

90/100

Slight Appreciation

Our Verdict

61 /100

This 2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £9,950 by Ivanhurst Motor Company Ltd in Rettendon Place. It has 89,127 miles on the clock. At 48% below the market average of £19,213, this looks competitively priced based on 88 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is gaining approximately £963/year in value. The listing quality is average — it could benefit from more photos or detailed specifications.

Year 2018

Make FORD

Model TRANSIT CUSTOM

Body Style Panel Van

Colour White

Fuel Type Diesel

Gearbox Manual

Mileage 89,127 miles

Engine 2L

Monthly Payment £228.02/mo

Below MarketListed at £9,950 vs market average of £19,213 (-48%)

Market Low

£5,695

Market Average

£19,213

Market High

£38,000

Comparables

88 listings

Based on 88 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation

Slight Appreciation

£447/year

Mileage Impact

Strong Appreciation

£258/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Slight Appreciation

£963/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £17,436 (£-7,486)

Mileage-predicted: £19,877 (£-9,927)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £705/yr | 10k mi/yr £963/yr | 15k mi/yr £1,221/yr

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

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?

14/25Average

Clear pricing

£9,950

8/8

Monthly payment shown

£228.02/mo

4/4

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 2.0 300 Ecoblue Trend Panel Va

4/4

Meta description

2018 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

83% of 6 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

6537 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.