brianp38dse
Well-Known Member
A feckin kitchen or some such
My birfday in May, wife taking us on holiday. Wanted to drive her car to the airport! Whaaaaaaaat? 200 miles in a cramped Citroen C4 with it's 72mpg?
Stuff that, I'd rather do 20mpg in comfort
landyboots
Active Member
So as long as we keep changing engines and Gearboxes and everything else in between, they go on forever.....Sounds like Trigger's Brush to me
Wazzajnr
Well-Known Member
Just clocked around to 140k on my run back from Czech last week (960 miles in 2 days running at mainly 80mph on cruise and returning bang on 20mpg actual. Unusual thing though is that the fuel consumption gauge for that trip read 17.9mpg, nornally it reads higher than actual not lower!)
I just read back my reply from last year.
I got it so wrong!!
The new engine was fitted at 84k miles (I think I was on so many pain killers last year that it fuzzed my math) only last month the odometer ticked over 100k miles so the engine only now has 16k miles on it and it runs like a watch, it just the other bits that let it down
All the recent hilarity with leads & coils, I now find I have another air leak because I disturbed everything with removing the inlet manifold. It's tight as far as I'm aware, but I'm getting a little miss on very gentle throttle just like before when I discovered the leak at the air duct after the MAF.
Oh, and the LPG is playing up, but could it also be the air leak?? I think perhaps. The "Fault" light comes on on the LPG level gauge (switch over button) each time I press the throttle pedal, which may indicate a lean throttle setting.
I can see I may need to take a trip to Ace Tuning 40 miles away and have them check the system over once I have found the air leak.
I love to hate this car.
I got it so wrong!!
The new engine was fitted at 84k miles (I think I was on so many pain killers last year that it fuzzed my math) only last month the odometer ticked over 100k miles so the engine only now has 16k miles on it and it runs like a watch, it just the other bits that let it down
All the recent hilarity with leads & coils, I now find I have another air leak because I disturbed everything with removing the inlet manifold. It's tight as far as I'm aware, but I'm getting a little miss on very gentle throttle just like before when I discovered the leak at the air duct after the MAF.
Oh, and the LPG is playing up, but could it also be the air leak?? I think perhaps. The "Fault" light comes on on the LPG level gauge (switch over button) each time I press the throttle pedal, which may indicate a lean throttle setting.
I can see I may need to take a trip to Ace Tuning 40 miles away and have them check the system over once I have found the air leak.
I love to hate this car.
223.000mls and climbing .
brianp38dse
Well-Known Member
122000 + , 2.5 dse thinking of swapping the badge round ,so it will read 5.2.
I quite like the idea of that, it will get them guessing
not sure that will will work quite so well on my 4.0 HSEI quite like the idea of that, it will get them guessing
