07-10-2012, 05:31 PM
(07-10-2012, 05:09 PM)c.a.r. Wrote: Tom,
For £1500 my Hdi does 55mpg all day long, is nippy enough to keep me happy (has a basic remap) and handles like a car should. It costs £135 in tax per year and it's reasonably cheap to insure (although I do a fair amount of miles so I get ripped off)
Find me a car which will do similar and can be repaired for pennies and I'll buy it. You'll struggle though cos nothing out there exists.
Buy a £1500 Golf and it'd have many more miles on and not necessarily be any better!
Getting tired of typing the same old responses out to you man!
You paid £1500 for a HDi? Christ!
Glad yours does 55mpg, mine wont.
And I already said the tax was pre y reg, twice infact, as thats what the majority of HDis are 'T,V,W,X' all expensive tax, 'Y' cheap tax...thats only a quarter thats the cheaper tax (unless you go for an estate and get 51 plate ofc).
I will try a stage 1 map soon...(and will have to pay an extra £150 per year on insurance for it! More than I would pay for a standard GTi6 with 50 more bhp, revs and bwarp!)...but I cant see it making much difference anyway. It struggles overtaking a pair of cyclists in one go, and on the country road where I live there loads of cyclists, tractors and old people that need overtaking in relatively short overtaking places, which is one reason I couldn't put up with the NAD, but the HDi's just as bad for overtakes tbh!! This is what I cant make my parents understand about slow cars, its nothing to do with top speed, I dont care whether a car will only do 90mph (NAD) or 135+(PD180), its all about the accelleration for safely overtaking on the B road or joining a busy motorway which Im afraid the HDi and NAD both lack.
I'm fed up of reading your same responses too, where you're clearly not reading (or understanding) the points I make and just reeling out your same old replies. Forget the Golf, I know nothing will match it in terms of mpg or mpg to power as thats entirely what the PD is designed for, mpg and emmisions (at the time). Just taking the HDi as it is - a reasonably light car, with a 2.0 diesel engine in it, isn't at all what was expecting in terms of performance mpg or running costs.
And looking at the prices of 'like for like' HDis on ebay, they are only a couple of hundred quid cheaper than an equivalent 90/110 PD Golf of the same year and milage, seems ridiculous theyre still going for over a grand imo.
