2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £17,990 Listing Review

Item: 2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM
Rating: 76
Author: Car-Search.ai

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 21 April 2026 | gosforth, auto

£17,990

91,221 miles | Diesel | Manual | Panel Van

Listing Quality

76/100

Good

vs Market Average

+16%

Above Market

Value Retention

65/100

Slow Depreciation

Our Verdict

76 /100

This 2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £17,990 by Union Vans in gosforth. It has 91,221 miles on the clock. At 16% above the market average of £15,506, this is priced on the higher side compared to 84 similar listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £634/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 Blue

Fuel Type Diesel

Gearbox Manual

Mileage 91,221 miles

Engine 2L

Monthly Payment £392.85/mo

Above MarketListed at £17,990 vs market average of £15,506 (+16%)

Market Low

£5,695

Market Average

£15,506

Market High

£28,750

Comparables

84 listings

Based on 84 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation

Slight Appreciation

£447/year

Mileage Impact

Moderate Depreciation

£541/5k mi

Combined (10k mi/yr)

Slow Depreciation

£634/yr

This Vehicle vs Model

Age-predicted: £17,436 (+£554)

Mileage-predicted: £20,043 (£-2,053)

Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-94/yr | 10k mi/yr £-634/yr | 15k mi/yr £-1,175/yr

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

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?

15/25Average

Photos

53 photos

10/10

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?

19/25Good

Clear pricing

£17,990

8/8

Monthly payment shown

£392.85/mo

4/4

Visual presentation

53 photos

5/5

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 Blue. 2...

4/4

Canonical URL

Present

3/3

Open Graph tags

Missing or incomplete

0/3

Image alt text

94% of 116 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

8361 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.