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[luna_s]

my 1.4 felt like you were constantly stirring the box to get anything out of it, 1.2s must be even worse! picked up the diesel last night, pleasantly suprised, not bad for what i paid, he was the owner from new too with all MOTs and stuff, stamped up book as well! still a shed tho, with a shocking set of wheeltrims that i think are a size too big for the wheel - they are held on with tie wraps, then spin like blades on a gladiators chariot - ill be ripping those off when i get a minute, fanbelt squeeeeeeeled like a pig all the way home, fixed that as soon as i got in

[JG]

We need pictures! oh and how much?

[Winstar]

They are good. Simply a bored out version of the 1.5. Very reliable and great for running on veg*. Not as powerful or as torquey as the little 1.5turbo though.

My plan if the 1.5td lets go, is to fit the 1.7td from the calalier. 87 bhp and shed load of torque will actually make it both quick and incredibly frugal.

*from the 30th of June there will be no tax on using veg oil to fuel road vehciles.

James you got a link to the details of the rules, I think you posted it before but i can't find where

I think I'm going to be joining the club soon my current shed, despite beeing a w reg is always going wrong. I walked back to it last night to find the near side front shock had decieded to dump it's oil in a puddle underneath the wheel, fcuking Fiat's. I'm going to fix it get a years MOT, sell it, then start looking for a cheap deisel.

[luna_s]

paid 500 quid for it, all in taxed till sept and mot'd till next march - i'll get pics later

[Initial D]

looking forward to picking it up and going bio

What you mean cheap veg oil from Aldi?

Yup

Just brought this recently http://www.pistonhea...ales/180099.htm.

Planning to go Bio, too. , but wonder if I need to mod the car first???

Manage 590 miles wiv a full tank. Thats 3X better than my vx, lol.

[Jaysith]

its tempting to join in i'll be driving from surrey to bournemouth quite a lot next year, sure i can get much better economy than my clio

[JG]

looking forward to picking it up and going bio

What you mean cheap veg oil from Aldi?

Yup

Just brought this recently http://www.pistonhea...ales/180099.htm.

Planning to go Bio, too. , but wonder if I need to mod the car first???

Manage 590 miles wiv a full tank. Thats 3X better than my vx, lol.

You'll need to be carefull with the pump of the little pug. The fora i've been reading seem to think that they don't like veg much (if at all). The lower lubrication properties of the Veg seem to distroy the (very expensive) pumps.

its tempting to join in i'll be driving from surrey to bournemouth quite a lot next year, sure i can get much better economy than my clio

just get something with a Bosch pump

[luna_s]

heh the exhaust fell off the diesel yesterday on the way to work, so this weekend ive been mostly fitting a new one, i say a weekend - it took me a hour total cost 44 quid, didn't need a backbox as it was a brand new vauxhall part the old old exhaust had more holes than a cheese grater too! shedding is great oh and i took the old one off and it had a cat, the new one i bought didnt (didnt realise they put cats on diesels) so bonus - ive also decatted it!

Edited by luna_s, 30 June 2007 - 10:54 AM.

[RobNA]

Cool, I replaced the back section of the exhaust on my Polo yesterday It hadn't fallen off, but it did fall apart as I took it off and it had a load of holes in it. Really pleased with it Sooo much quieter

[JG]

Filled up yesterday for £15 - thats the next 450ish miles sorted out. (i think my filling technique is better than yours Ant, i've not got it all over the wing/bumper/wheel trim ) worked out the other day, the vx costs around £1.95 a mile (very low miliage this year) the corsa works out at £0.08

Edited by JamesGray, 02 July 2007 - 07:46 AM.

[cheeky_chops]

After vac'ing the shed out, i found myself t-cut/polishing all 4 door shuts. I dont think they had been cleaned for years - is there somethign wrong with me?

[luna_s]

yes, the whole idea, is *not* to clean them fullstop just add bits as needed!

[fluffy]

No, disagree with you there. My shed Mercedes 190 gets almost as much care and attention as the vx. Especially since I couldn't stand having one car with a name and one without so its now known as Snowball. Well its white! But away nonetheless. Sorting out a hosting account soonish so will put piccies of Fluffy & Snowball parked next to each other very soon. Also the 190 has a really friendly forum just like ours. And I can access it at work unlike here so guess where I spend my lunchbreaks? Anyway a 90k mercedes doesn't seem to need bits added to it. There are no rattles from it whatsoever! Plus it has electric front windows, and central locking and.... sun visors. I drove the vx for the first time in 3 days last night and it definitely felt special again. Well worth the extra cost of buying the merc. Plus I can get into the merc and not think "OUCH!" when I'm knackered out etc. Definitely recommend shedding to everyone else out there.

[RobNA]

After vac'ing the shed out, i found myself t-cut/polishing all 4 door shuts. I dont think they had been cleaned for years - is there somethign wrong with me?

Thank god I am not alone I cleaned, clay barred, polished and waxed the shed yesterday To be fair I had nothing better to be doing and it does actually look quite good

[JG]

After vac'ing the shed out, i found myself t-cut/polishing all 4 door shuts. I dont think they had been cleaned for years - is there somethign wrong with me?

Thank god I am not alone I cleaned, clay barred, polished and waxed the shed yesterday To be fair I had nothing better to be doing and it does actually look quite good

[luna_s]

must admit, i cleaned all the glass inside out at the weekend, mainly because they were filthy, i also lavished some attention on fixing the bunged up windscreen washing system , some rather interesting lumps in the washer bottle......... plus a quick blast of compressed air throo all the lines - as good as new

[JG]

I spilt veg oil all over the wheel/wheel arch/bumper/wing - haven't cleaned it so now it has collected grass/mud/flies and is generally pretty black. do i care? no not really. So long as they are serviced well, free of rust a corsa is a corsa. I do rather like mine though.

[luna_s]

you just putting veg oil straight in - 50/50 mix ? will my 1.7 like it ?

[Victor Xray]

I have recently sold my Mondeo shed (it had 149k so I thought it was time to move on), and have invested in a Peugeot 406 which I found quite cheaply. However, it is a 2.0 Turbo petrol engine so I'm not experiencing good fuel consumption, to say the least, at the moment! 33mpg absolute tops and as low as early 20's if you thrash it. However, its a bit of a mint motor so should see me through the next few months! As a bit of a side issue, I put the Mondeo on fleabay and it sold for a lot more than I thought, but the winner had 0 feedback. However, to my surpise 2 Polish fella's turned up the very next evening and paid me in cash and took it away! They said they were taking it back to Poland!!! I seem to remember reading a thread on here a few months ago about some Eastern European's buying up cheap cars here because they were worth far more there. It seems it is happening more and more. I'll post a pic of the Peugeot shed here soon.