Safety and security

When Mondeo wins the maximum 5-star Euro NCAP rating for adult occupant protection safety, you know you’re looking at a car that takes safety very seriously. It features a comprehensive safety system of both active and passive safety features that work to prevent accidents, and protect you and your passengers if an impact is unavoidable. From the seat belt pre-tensioners that keep all passengers firmly in their seats, to the horizontal stroking steering system that collapses to reduce potential upper body injuries, Mondeo has been designed with safety uppermost in mind.

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Security

Intelligent Protection System (IPS)

Why does Mondeo feel so safe and secure? Apart from its physical presence, the foundation of the car’s IPS is an ultra-stiff body structure, and many other passive safety measures – ready to spring into action within milliseconds. These passive safety features include:

Seven airbags for overall protection, including driver’s and front passenger’s, also front side impact airbags, together with front and rear side-curtain airbags deployed from the headlining, plus driver’s knee bolster airbag
3-point seat belts with pre-tensioners and retractors on front seats
Height adjustable mounts on front seat belts
Seat belt reminder system
An advanced collapsible steering column and retracting pedals that collapse away from the driver to reduce injury, in case of impact
An Advanced Neck Injury Protection System to help the front passengers avoid whiplash
Side impact door beams – front and rear
ISOFIX child seat attachments on the two outer seats in the rear*.

*Note: A child seat should never be placed on the front passenger seat when the Ford vehicle is equipped with an operational front passenger’s airbag. The safest place for children is properly restrained on the rear seat

Active Cruise Control (ACC) with Forward Alert (FA)

With ACC you can automatically keep your chosen distance from the car in front. Should the car in front slow down and reduce the gap, your speed drops, too. And when traffic speeds up, you automatically return to cruising speed. Meanwhile, FA monitors your distance to the vehicle in front. If you drive too close, a warning noise and flashing light activate (also incorporates CDC and Hill Start Assist).

Anti-lock braking system (ABS) with electronic brake-force distribution (EBD)

This system has been fitted to Mondeo to ensure that braking is smoother, more stable and safer for you and your passengers.

Electronic Stability Programme (ESP) with Traction Assist (TA) and Emergency Brake Assist (EBA)

ESP with TA monitors the rotation of the wheels, as well as the steering wheel angle, yaw angle and sideways movement. If the sensors detect either the front or rear tyres slipping, the onboard computer modifies the engine power and applies the brakes to individual wheels. This keeps them under control and helps keep the vehicle stable. EBA is there to ensure full braking force is available whenever necessary, helping reduce stopping distances in an emergency. To alert other drivers if you do have to brake heavily, the hazard warning lights automatically come on.

Tyre Pressure Monitoring

Tyre Pressure Monitoring with individual wheel sensors that check the tyre pressure, provide accurate pressure data and alert you before any loss of pressure becomes an issue.

Hill Start Assist (HSA)

This system prevents you from rolling backwards when making a hill start. After releasing the brake pedal when stationary, HSA keeps the wheels braked, leaving you enough time to move your foot from the brake pedal to the accelerator without the car moving (available as part of Adaptive Cruise Control).

Park Assist

There are optional front and rear sensors that make parking and manoeuvring both safer and easier. An audible warning helps you judge the distance between your car and any obstacle behind or in front of you, so you have complete confidence and peace of mind, particularly in tight spaces (standard on Titanium X, optional on all other series).

High Intensity Discharge (HID) xenon headlights

If you do a lot of driving at night, or in poor weather, these optional headlights are ideal, generating an extremely bright light but consuming less energy and with a longer service life than conventional halogen bulbs. They also light up a longer and wider angle than standard halogen bulbs (HID xenon headlights with AFS headlights are an option on most models and automatically include static cornering lights).

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Halogen Adaptive Front lighting System (AFS)

With AFS, the headlights swivel to the left or right by up to 15° according to your speed and the angle of the steering wheel. So, as you turn the wheel, the dipped lights swivel to illuminate the road as you take the corner. This boosts forward visibility through bends and creates a safer driving environment. Integrated static cornering lights are activated when you turn the steering wheel 30°. These give even more light on sharper bends, to help you avoid any potential problems around the next corner (standard on Titanium S, optional on Zetec, Ghia and Titanium X).

Passive Anti-Theft System (PATS)

When you fall for something as alluring as Mondeo, you want to know that it will remain safe and secure when you have to leave it anywhere. That’s why we have incorporated so many security features. The locks are all high-security, anti-burst and shielded with strengthened mountings. And for extra peace of mind, there’s our patented Passive Anti-Theft System (PATS) immobiliser, which disables the engine until your uniquely-coded key is put into the ignition or is recognised by the sensors.

As for alarms, a perimeter alarm is standard on LX and Zetec, A Thatcham, Category 1 perimeter alarm with volume sensing is standard on Ghia, Titanium S and X. With the highest rating awarded by the UK’s Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre, Mondeo’s Category 1 combined car alarm and immobiliser not only makes your vehicle more secure. It also helps lower your insurance premiums. This alarm is triggered if an intruder tries to open the windows, bonnet, or boot. It also protects the audio system, and uses volume sensing to monitor movements inside the vehicle.

Double locking with global open/close

Mondeo’s double locking key facility means you can remotely close all the electric windows and optional sunroof, as well as deadlocking all the doors. So if an intruder gains entry by breaking the windows, they will be unable to unlock the doors from inside. You can activate double locking simply by pressing the 'lock' button on the key fob twice.

You can also open all the windows and the optional sunroof in your Mondeo, by pressing and holding the 'unlock' button. To close them, simply press and hold the 'lock' button (standard).