Mondeo Sport Pad 8
A later Mondeo variant that swaps the stud pattern for three long bars — a cheaper insert to tool, and a pattern that suits a pedal the foot always meets square on.
Specification
| Part family | Overmoulded finisher plate |
|---|---|
| Construction | Metal face with moulded rubber inserts |
| Face detail | Broad stainless face with three long moulded rubber bars. |
| Face finish options | Brushed aluminium, sand blasted stainless steel or polished stainless steel |
| Face marking | Laser etching available on steel components |
| Insert compounds | EPDM, SBR, TPE or TPE-SEBS, to drawing |
| Tooling | Designed and built in house |
| Prototype parts | 4 weeks from prototype tool |
| PPAP | Typically 8 weeks, to ISO/TS 16949 or VDA |
| Dimensions | Built to customer drawing or to a supplied sample |
| Moulded from | Beijing rubber plant (rubber) / Shanghai plant (plastics) |
The face on this part
Broad stainless face with three long moulded rubber bars. It sits in the Ford Sport Pads group, and the photograph above is of the part itself rather than a rendering — what you see is the tread, the outline and the finish as they leave the tool.
Tooling, and who owns the timing
All tooling is designed and made in house, in the same buildings as the moulding lines in Shanghai and Beijing. That is why parts from a prototype tool take 4 weeks rather than the eight to ten a subcontracted tool would need.
Moving from sample to approved part
Prototype parts prove the shape. PPAP proves the process — that a production tool on a production line makes parts that match the drawing repeatably. We run PPAP to ISO/TS 16949 or VDA, typically over 8 weeks.
What we need to quote it
A drawing in SolidWorks, Pro-E or UG — a STEP export is fine — or the physical sample, which we will measure and model for your approval. Annual volume and the required PPAP standard complete the picture.
Other parts in Ford Sport Pads
Background reading
Sport Pad or Rubber Pad? The Difference That Decides Your Tooling Cost
A sport pad has a metal face; a rubber pad does not. That single difference drives tooling count, unit price and how the part is validated.
Overmoulding vs Press Fit: Two Ways to Get Rubber Onto a Finisher Plate
Both produce a metal-faced pedal pad. They differ in tooling, in retention and in how easily the part can be pulled apart.
Brushed, Sand Blasted or Polished: Picking a Pedal Face Finish
The three finishes buyers actually ask for, what each one hides, and why a finish change is not a tooling change.
Questions buyers ask
Can the metal face be changed without retooling the rubber?
Yes. The stainless or aluminium blank and the rubber insert are separate tools, so a change of finish — brushed, sand blasted or polished — does not touch the rubber tool. A change to the insert pattern does.
How long before I see a real Mondeo Sport Pad 8 sample?
Four weeks from a prototype tool. The tool shop is in the same buildings as the moulding lines in Shanghai and Beijing, so prototype work does not queue behind a subcontractor.
What do you need from us to quote it?
A drawing or sample plus the annual volume. Say at that point whether PPAP is required and to which standard — ISO/TS 16949 or VDA — so it is planned in rather than added later.
How is the material verified?
In our Beijing facility, next to the production line: Shore A hardness, density, ozone, ageing, tensile strength, elongation to fracture, vulcanization and insulation resistivity, oil resistance and Mooney viscosity.
Quote the Mondeo Sport Pad 8
Send the annual volume and, if you have one, the drawing. Prototype parts follow 4 weeks after a prototype tool.