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Two things:
First despite everyone else saying mk3, the mk4 Golf IMO is the worst, blandest, least satisfying Golf they ever made. I wouldn't have one just because it's cheap, and you can get a tunable but chronically noisy PD engine in them.
Secondly, diesels of that age do not get emissions tested other than a visible smoke test, and they don't need by law to retain the original exhaust system equipment. You can do a DPF and cat removal, and when it's been mapped to allow it to run without, you'll get a much quicker turbo spool up and more boost delivered sooner too.
Non of above is helpful to OP though. Im quite amused by the anti diesel attitude of many. If you want something that's good and flexible and punchy in day to day driving, TD's better most mid size petrol engines. You can't make a Nasp petrol fast or drive really well today, as emissions regs are impossible to meet if you want performance.
You only get TDI beating performance and torque delivery almost when you put a turbo onto a same size petrol engine, but do that and fuel economy goes to shit in comparison.
Only thing diesel can't really beat petrol on is the 1.0 ish city car, where having the extra expense of say a 1.3TDI is uneconomic and not a big advantage, on stop start driven small cars or those used for frequent cold short journeys.
My old 2.0 Rover engine won't ever beat 24-25mpg, but the 2.0 Diesel equivalent will always see 50mpg or more driven as fast as you like. It also is very easy to tune to 150bhp, and has appreciably more torque delivered earlier than the std 2.0 petrol. |
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stevo as b4 wrote: | Im quite amused by the anti diesel attitude of many. |
Sorry, but have you been living under a rock?
The diesel engine is about to be legislated out of existence - every other city in the UK is waiting to see how the London ULEZ pans out, so they can tweak it and introduce it to a place near you.
There are whisperings that the MOT test is going to be tightened up, Ford have already announced plans to introduce a scrappage scheme to cover everything made before 2010 and mark my words, the fuel duty will rise without ceiling, so making a diesel totally unviable.
This hasn't got anything to do with my, or any other BCF member's personal opinion, nor any kind of baseless scaremongering; it's happening right now.
Go and have a look through the classifieds and auction sites, see how many petrol versions of the popular cars are available, compared to diesels - the market is already flooded with folk trying to offload their oil burners, because they know the window of sale opportunity is getting vanishingly tiny.
By 2020, there will be no market for diesel cars; by coincidence, I was chatting to one of my suppliers today, a company that specialises in repairing diesel engines. They have already started their exit strategy, because they know their business will come to end, virtually overnight.
As I said before, buying a diesel car now is like knowing you've bought a losing lottery ticket, a complete waste of money, so you had better be sure you can afford to chuck that cash straight down the toilet. ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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Shaft wrote: | stevo as b4 wrote: | Im quite amused by the anti diesel attitude of many. |
Sorry, but have you been living under a rock?
The diesel engine is about to be legislated out of existence - every other city in the UK is waiting to see how the London ULEZ pans out, so they can tweak it and introduce it to a place near you.
There are whisperings that the MOT test is going to be tightened up, Ford have already announced plans to introduce a scrappage scheme to cover everything made before 2010 and mark my words, the fuel duty will rise without ceiling, so making a diesel totally unviable.
This hasn't got anything to do with my, or any other BCF member's personal opinion, nor any kind of baseless scaremongering; it's happening right now.
Go and have a look through the classifieds and auction sites, see how many petrol versions of the popular cars are available, compared to diesels - the market is already flooded with folk trying to offload their oil burners, because they know the window of sale opportunity is getting vanishingly tiny.
By 2020, there will be no market for diesel cars; by coincidence, I was chatting to one of my suppliers today, a company that specialises in repairing diesel engines. They have already started their exit strategy, because they know their business will come to end, virtually overnight.
As I said before, buying a diesel car now is like knowing you've bought a losing lottery ticket, a complete waste of money, so you had better be sure you can afford to chuck that cash straight down the toilet. |
Do you work for the Daily Express?
Diesels are not about to be taxed to oblivion, the government have chickened out on any kind of legislation as they know there is a large amount of the electorate who stand to lose out.
Even if there is any movement on diesel cars, it will be for diesels Euro IV and below, Euro V and VI are safe - in fact most of the recently announced diesel scrappage schemes are for cars that are Euro IV or earlier. We are talking about cars that are already 7 years old plus.
If you are planning on sinking a few notes on a diesel car, just buy a modern one. One can hardly say the petrol engine has a bright future given that by 2040 all new vehicles to be sold in the UK won't have an ICE at all...
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Way off topic, so someone please delete at your leisure. But I still find it amazing that we've had over 100years of the ICE engine, and let's just pick on petrols for a second.
I used to think what's changed in the last 25years, 4valve combustion chambers, light alloy heads and even blocks, multi point fuel injection and VVT systems, and 3way controlled catalysts etc. Millennium> engines didn't seem any different from the past to me.
But it's all the small but significant improvements like stop start, cylinder de-activation, advanced learning ECU's, direct injection, etc. It was when 2.0 petrols could make 200bhp but do 40mpg I started to think, yeah there's progress I spose.
But everything has been tried now, and there's nothing economically viable left to do now. We've had down sizing, down speeding, modular engine designs, forced induction for efficiency and emissions, throttle less engines with valvetronic and multiair systems. And camless valve actuation. Even HCCI. There really is nothing of significant benefits left on the table for engine designers to pick up and run with.
Electric motors and more so battery technology is just beginning by comparison, with much left to discover and explore, and some big breakthroughs waiting to be discovered.
2040> could be quite exciting times for tech heads tbh! |
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He's currently sitting his heavy coupe which will shit parts of suspension and eat it's gearbox, all while drinking fuel.
You either need a car for the a to b job, or as a weekend tool.
Using one for the other job is not pleasant nor cheap. You have cars like the MX-5 which are usable everyday and can be hammered at the weekends but it's at a cost of seats and economy.
The civic was not cheap to drive as you had to be 100% ALL the time. Otherwise you had a brick. Bit like this Merc but I probably have more power.
No, I'd not have bought that car you posted. I'd also not touch another Audi but that's my preference. |
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M.C wrote: | I've no idea how you do a hill start in one without 3 legs anyway |
jnw010 wrote: | Probably by activating the hand release for the parking brake... with a hand.
It's almost like the Germans have done something logical there. |
M.C wrote: | By putting it on the right side? |
I was making the stupid assumption at some point you've had to stop on the hill [/quote]
So you put your right foot on the brake pedal, as normal, then apply the parking brake with your left foot.
When it's time to pull away, you find the biting point of the clutch with your left foot, then release the parking brake with your hand, in exactly the same way as you would with a centre handbrake lever.
Why is that so difficult?
Alternatively, just hold the car against the clutch and don't bother with the parking brake, either way works well ____________________ Things get better with age; I'm close to being magnificent........
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So OP, went and did it anyway...
https://s20.postimg.org/412k2ou6l/Screenshot_2017-08-31_at_13.37.50.png ____________________ Riding: Yamaha MT-09 Tracer Occasionally Riding: 08 Suzuki SV650, Potato: 2011 Yamaha YBR Custom.
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With that bum raider haircut, I ain't even surprised. |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 6 years, 239 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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