07-10-2012, 07:34 PM
(07-10-2012, 05:55 PM)Poodle Wrote: Tom's HDi - sorry, SAM's HDi - is definitely broken, Tom even says so himself, but admitting that here would mean he would carry absolutely no weight in this argument at all. Oh wait...
Turns out it isn't broken though! I assumed there must have been a major boost leak or something......but there isn't one at all! Yes the EML is on but the code is the CKP so nothing really fuel related as it can use the cps for timing instead. So it isn't broken afterall, must just be crap as standard lol.
Chris....the silver golf was a 51 plate, 11 years old....if that had only done 50mpg even after 10 years and 140k miles I'd think it was broken.....infact it was still doing 55mpg with a hole in the intetcooler lol, if vag can manage mpg 10 years ago, why not Pug?
As for that particular overtake which was this morning, I booted it from 20 in 3rd, nothing happened to note so I dropped into 2nd, revved its tits off and still barely got anywhere, well there's not a gear between those so what else could I have done? I'm not sure if its the tiny turbo or shit gearing but it just doesn't shift when you need it to. Granted it'll sit at 60 in 5th all day if that's what you do...but that isn't the sort of driving I do most of the time.
The anti stall seems to be shite too for a diesel, I don't remember stalling the golf. And I never even stalled the petrol Avensis with the fluctuating idle, yet I've stalled the hdi three times now!! What's up with that! I'm hoping its just due to the new clutch though, and the fact we didn't change the fork bushes....really regret that now as the clutch isnt smooth at slow speed, that parts our fault though, not the cars obviously.
