No expensive turbos to go wrong, will be a little dull and soggy after the Celica, must be careful overtaking for the first couple of weeks. No to rip with cat claws.
Timing is by rubber band, but that has been changed recently. Should do for the commute. Not to pricey, but leggy but nothing over the top. Lowest mileage car I've owned in a few years, and I have a mate who works on the parts desk in a local dealers.
Good call - honest.
Well, it was the missus really. You aren't buying off ebay again. I said no. That's a good price. Nobody is bidding. Bid now, I don't care how much, bid now. You need to get it.
Women hey.
Let's hope the deal on the SAAB completes 100% :-)
Well, he has paid 50% upfront, and I'm picking him up from liverpool airport tomorrow night.
We have sorted him out with a guest house for an overnight stay and are providing him with a meal because where the hell is he going to find somewhere to eat on Easter sunday after 6pm.
Erm, Rob.... you do realise that lump is the one that's fitted to the laughably badged MkIV Golf 'GTI', don't you? (ie. the 2lt non-turbo).
Which means it has a whole 115bhp. Hence it's slower than a very slow thing.
nice to see you've seen the light and bought V AG. nice engines although i do prefer the derv lumps, quick enough and should provide plenty of trouble free motoring,
all you need now is a 60mm drop and some 18" RS4 rep rims :)
Yeah, I know. Slow, but it will plod. Just have to be prepared for coil pack failure.
That should have been solved by now. There was a dodgy batch, almost all of which will, by now, have been replaced. I certainly didn't experience it on the Passat.
(I've just done an Autotrader search on Passat 1.8T SEs..... there's a lovely dark metallic blue one at a dealer in Bristol for £1595. To say I'm tempted would be an understatement)
Frikkin' 'eck mate, make up your mind!!
Also, am I right in thinking that the 2 litre engines as fitted to non-turbo Golf GTIs were 8-valve units? Did they do any Mk4 GTis with the 2 litre
16v, or did they knock that on the head in favour of the 1.8T engines?
Heh. Well, I'm commuting a bit further than I expected when I bought the Marea. Plus there were other reasons for selling my Passat - the knackered comfort control module being one, the other being that I didn't know where my next pay cheque was coming from.
Yes.
No.
Yes.
So is it an 8v or 16 lump in the Octi then?
8v.
Not too bad then. two 8v Skodas in the family. Just how it is supposed to be. As one one of the Favorit/Felicia rally boys has on the back of stage car, "1 cam, 8 valves, so what, infront of you".
at the end of the day it may only have 115 horses but it does what it says on the tin and will do for a long time to come, and reliably too :)
still should have bought a 130 TDI :) :) :)
Yup. I looked at TDis but non had come down enough round my way yet. I've still saved arround =A3500-=A31k over what a used car dealer would=20 charge. A "Skoda approved" one is listed on the used car search on the Skoda=20 home page at one of their dealers. It has done 1/3rd the mileage, but it is =A35k bar the pennies. Same year, same spec, same colour.
--=20 Carl Robson Car PC Build starts again.
It's an 8v unit. Nice and torquey but not a rev monster, one of the better VAG petrol engines (providing it doesn't have their appalling electronic drive-by-wire set up). I can confirm it works well in the Fabia. Consumption isn't too bad but it's no economy champion. The car has a (revised from the version on my website) Performance Score of 18.2. :-)
It'll do. Maybe it is time I stop letting Porsches chase me, and let them pass sometime.
I'll be back later with either some thing vRS or something Aero.
What's my cars performance score? Just as a matter of interest like :)
With Peugeot quoted figures, depending on the age it's between 18.0 and
19.6. The Accord manages 18.7. The data is only designed to give an indication, so in a straight line there won't be much between the 2.0 Octavia, the 1.8 Accord and the 1.6 206.MotorsForum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.