I can today (10/06/11) confirm that this issue is also prevalant on the new mondeo, having experienced a failure on my 10 plate mondeo tdci 2 litre. The car has only completed 17k miles, slave cylinder has failed, ford (Blackburn) reporting a delay of at least 5 days including weekend to repair due to having no parts, when Evans Halshaw was asked whether this has happened before I was told no, not really, why do ford let themselves down with their after sales care?