2017 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £12,990 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 20 April 2026 | gosforth, auto
£12,990
99,876 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van
Listing Quality
69/100
Average
vs Market Average
-28%
Below Market
Value Retention
45/100
Moderate Depreciation
Our Verdict
69 /100

This 2017 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £12,990 by Union Vans in gosforth. It has 99,876 miles on the clock. At 28% below the market average of £18,042, this looks competitively priced based on 60 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £2,207/year in value. The listing quality is average — it could benefit from more photos or detailed specifications.

Year 2017
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CUSTOM
Body Style Panel Van
Colour Grey
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 99,876 miles
Engine 2L
Monthly Payment £279.85/mo
Below MarketListed at £12,990 vs market average of £18,042 (-28%)
Market Low
£6,950
Market Average
£18,042
Market High
£38,000
Comparables
60 listings

Based on 60 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation
Strong Appreciation
£1,643/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,925/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Moderate Depreciation
£2,207/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £18,353 (£-5,363)
Mileage-predicted: £18,795 (£-5,805)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-282/yr | 10k mi/yr £-2,207/yr | 15k mi/yr £-4,132/yr

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

69
Overall Listing Quality
Average — some areas could be improved.
Information & Buyer Appeal
Does this listing give buyers enough information to make a decision?
10/25Average
Photos
7 photos
5/10
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?
17/25Average
Clear pricing
£12,990
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£279.85/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
7 photos
3/5
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 TDCI 270 Trend Panel Van 5
4/4
Meta description
2017 Ford Transit Custom Trend, Manual, In Grey.....
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
74% of 23 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
8338 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

Union Vans

gosforth, auto NE13 6PE