2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM — £12,499 Listing Review

Reviewed by Car-Search.ai | 20 April 2026 | Tonteg, Pontypridd
£12,499
99,113 miles | Diesel | Manual
Listing Quality
74/100
Good
vs Market Average
-17%
Below Market
Value Retention
25/100
Steep Depreciation
Our Verdict
74 /100

This 2018 FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM is listed at £12,499 by SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG in Tonteg. It has 99,113 miles on the clock. At 17% below the market average of £15,056, this looks competitively priced based on 63 comparable listings. Our depreciation analysis shows this vehicle is losing approximately £3,402/year in value. The listing quality is good, with adequate photos and specifications provided.

Year 2018
Make FORD
Model TRANSIT CUSTOM
Colour Silver
Fuel Type Diesel
Gearbox Manual
Mileage 99,113 miles
Monthly Payment £322.89/mo
Below MarketListed at £12,499 vs market average of £15,056 (-17%)
Market Low
£6,950
Market Average
£15,056
Market High
£28,750
Comparables
63 listings

Based on 63 comparable FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM listings.

Age Depreciation
Slight Appreciation
£447/year
Mileage Impact
Steep Depreciation
£1,925/5k mi
Combined (10k mi/yr)
Steep Depreciation
£3,402/yr
This Vehicle vs Model
Age-predicted: £17,436 (£-4,937)
Mileage-predicted: £18,795 (£-6,296)
Scenarios: 5k mi/yr £-1,478/yr | 10k mi/yr £-3,402/yr | 15k mi/yr £-5,327/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
22 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
£12,499
8/8
Monthly payment shown
£322.89/mo
4/4
Visual presentation
22 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 2.0 300 Ecoblue Limited Panel
4/4
Meta description
2018 Ford Transit Custom Limited, Manual, In Silve...
4/4
Canonical URL
Present
3/3
Open Graph tags
Missing or incomplete
0/3
Image alt text
81% of 58 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
6053 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.

View original listing at SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG →

Looking for a FORD TRANSIT CUSTOM?

Search 50,000+ cars from UK dealers with our free AI-powered search engine

Search Now — Free

About the Dealer

SBM SMARTBUY MOTORS TONTEG

Tonteg, Pontypridd CF38 1PW