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[Riejufixing]

Oh. I was referring to that particular model in fact, but I was under the impression that generally it is failure of the water pump bearings or breakup of belt tensioners that leads to problems with belt tooth shedding/slippage rather than a gasket issue. Anyway, que será, será.

[stevo as b4]

Surprised at how many of you drive spicy cars or seem like car people? And some of you are suggesting remapping and modifications to std spec.

Im honestly surprised, as I though being all generalising and shit, that bikers and bike people drive mundane boring cars and have no interest or passion for cars? Some of you seem like general purpose petrol heads instead who want everything they own with an engine to be fun or messed around with?

I'm not knocking anyone, just psychology profiling. I personally like cars as much as bikes and my car has more non std parts than my bikes probably. I wouldn't want to be called out to like or just have one or the other, but I don't pretend otherwise either. I can likewise live without both as 4wheels or two arnt regular practical transport for me or to earn my living with, I just like to surround myself with projects, and things to mess with or bleed away cash on for no good reason.

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

I'm just getting my midlife crises (yes, plural) out of the way early doors.
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[dydey90]

I have an Astra GTC 1.6T, 180bhp. It handles great, is comfortable and fits adult passengers comfortably.
Unfortunately how I drive it, I only get 32mpg and it’ll struggle to return 40.
I don’t like the throttle ramping though, the response seems dampened quite a bit. I looked into a remap and found you can get it up to 220bhp, if you don’t mind replacing the gearbox every 10,000 miles. So I’m assuming that 180bhp is about on the limit for what the gearbox can handle and they’ve set up the throttle to protect it a bit.
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[Sister Sledge]

[Musketeer]

[Polarbear]

[Riejufixing]

[Loui5D]

Swift sport?

[Sister Sledge]

The GTI interior looks like armchairs in a space ship.

[A100man]

Let's face it VAG have conned a generation with their clever marketing. The cars are no better than any European ( and likely worse than a Jap) what's more if I looked hard enough I could find some stats to back me up,
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Now: A100, GT250A, XJ598, FZ750

Then: Fizz, RS200, KL250, XJ550, Laverda Alpina, XJ600, FZS600

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

So, had my head turned by the Megane Sport.

Civic R
Megane Sport
Focus ST

Anyone with experience? Like the idea of a turbo, but the CTR has Jap reliability going for it.
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[Riejufixing]

[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

[DrSnoosnoo]

My current ride is a granddad Suzuki SX4.

But I've got a HKS turbo and intercooler kit with a SCS Delta 800 ECU.

It's only a 1.5L Suzuki lump, about 100 bhp as standard. Not been on a rolling road yet.

I can't drive something boring. Driving is already boring as it is, might as well be something different.
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[grr666]

As much as I rate the Swift, it's not a good car for us anymore. We bought it about a year before we got our
dog who is now huge and simply doesn't fit in the back of it and still allow any room at all for luggage.
Also the back sill is way too high for her to be jumping up and down from. We've been using the van for our
holidays as there's not a chance the car could carry the amount of stuff we haul about with us when we travel
with Gracie. Estate car next for us, going to see one I like the look of this week possibly.
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[arry]

[grr666]

[arry]

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[rhys99]

Volvo C30 T5? don't see many about.
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[arry]

[stevo as b4]

[Shaft]

[tittymcarsefa...]

I've seen a few dsg golf/ scirocco gti and gtds recently with gearbox failures (mechatronic failure) that vw have refused to fix claiming driver abuse.

The 2.0 gti petrol engines seem to be suffering balance shaft siezures.

And the diesels seem to be suffering dpf blockages and egr falures since the emissions software updates.

Have you though about the mercedes A class range?