fuel consumption query.
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Can anyone sugest why there is such a difference in Parkers info regarding co2 emissions. It gives 160 g/km for the phase 1 + 211 g/km for the phase 2.
Is it just a misprint or is due to the A/C.
Is it just a misprint or is due to the A/C.
Quite a bit of stuff in Parkers is plain incorrect in the figures section I've found. 35mpg is pretty good going TBH, I used to get 33mpg which I was quite happy with. I never usually trust "official" mpgs as quoted by the manufacturer...
you guys are getting good milage out of them my n16 1.8 was doing about 170 miles to a full tank with the c.a.i and ss manifold on! lol
It`s that tonne of boot build you`ve got, weighing it down!mada_motaz said:
I got from my front door in Clacton, Essex, to the Shell garage @ Scotch Corner (315 miles of mostly `spirited` m/way driving), on a brimmed tank, when the GTi was on the 17s.
Or, put another way, from Hartlepool to Brentwood (M25 J28) when I collected it from Kelv.
That's pretty fucking brilliant for an average TBH!
markbuts3 said:
:O dont get a peugeot... trust you'll regret it!
i had two one of which was a diesel, very good engines pug diesels, handling, driving position, equipment etc was all good too, but everything electrical you could posibly imagine went wrong on it! And that was always the expensive bits...
lights inside and out
central locking
alarm & immobiliser
various thermostats
the list goes on and on...
doesn't nissan or other 'jap' companies do something diesel you like
The Almera diesel is pretty fast, but despite everyone's protestations that they're not related, I'm still sure it must be in some way based on the same 2.2 that they use in Renaults, I'm considering a diesel next and I've read of a LOT of the same problems occuring in both of them...
Electrics on French cars is usually a problem area, yeah, you seem particularly unlucky there, but probably offset by your headgasket not failing, which was/is fairly common on the 1.9s...
Electrics on French cars is usually a problem area, yeah, you seem particularly unlucky there, but probably offset by your headgasket not failing, which was/is fairly common on the 1.9s...
markbuts3 said:
You will find a 406 dead wollowy then. Even my standard susp. GTI felt stiff and "attack mode" compared to the 406 I had, it felt kinda "active" beneath you, on its tiptoes, and of course the whole car wasn't as structurally stiff. You had to adapt your driving style, but when I did, I found it could be hustled as fast as the GTI in the dry, and a fair bit quicker in the wet, and because it was a big soft wollower, it rode a lot better too...
That makes entire sense, yeah. The gist I caught was "They're great when they work, but can and do go wrong, and fuck me it costs a lot to fix when it does". They even have the same name, "DCI". It's just when I enquired something similar, I got met with a moderate level of abuse for even asking, ages ago. 
markbuts3 said:
If i were you fella id stick with JAP or German, may cost a little more to buy initially and put right when 'IF it eventually' goes wrong, but you get what you pay for at the end of the day, cheap french tack, and peugeots renowned poor quality dealer service is enough to make me never go french again... :evil:
TropGreenGTi said:
Another good point... but they usually only go after the 110k mark, i had a 1.9dturbo and a 2litre xsi, the xsi fell apart at the seams after the 100k barrier. dturbo fell apart after around 140k...
By the time i sold my xsi, it had no heating and you couldnt even lock it.lol.
German stuff tends to have moon dust on the bonnet before you need to change anything serious.lol.