Best I ever saw was 38 mpg and I average 28.
Since I bought it: Car - £6000 New cambelt, pump, thermostat, tensioners - £600 Service, ATF fluid change - £350 Respray for front wing after...
Nothing yet but that's not the point. Thank you for your contributions to my thread but I am not spending any more money on it. It's going - it...
Oh well, I've only spent £2000 on it so far this year - what's another £260?
OK but reading some other posts talking needle lift sensor problems and they talk about poor starting and rough idle and loss of power, none of...
Taking your advice, I got the codes read. Nada, apart from an intermittent fault on the needle lift sensor. The mechanic said that it wasn't...
Yes, it seems to be driving very well. The problem I have is getting time to get the faults read.
No, everything seems OK, starts on the button, quiet (in fact quite muted since I got it back), even idle. I think it's buggered and frankly, I...
You're quite right but cold weather won't suddenly clobber my mpg from 28 to 20.
It's just one damn thing after another. :mad: Last week, I got the cracked ATF cooler fixed - The rad was replaced, fluids replaced gearbox...
Anything is possible at a price. In all honesty, unless you fancy the challenge, for the amount of money / pain fitting a turbo to a 2.0 FSI, you...
Just a quick search threw up these 2:There's the Connects 2 @...
If this was a symptom on a BMW (the engines I know very well), the first place to check would be the Idle Air Control Valve - these get coked up...
Mine's got the 2.5TDI & Quattro badges missing. Whether they were removed or the car was ordered debadged, I wouldn't know.[img]Personally, I...
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