Price of unleaded

[Blade]

Good bomb proof engine that Cav. I believe the block can be traced back to one of the first VW Caddy Van's, so originally massively over engineered as a commercial vehicle engine designed to go round the clock multiple times.

Plenty of torque and quite punchy too. I had a tuning box on mine and the midrange punch was like I was connected to the horizon by and elastic band that slung shot me forwards

[Cav]

It's a satisfying surge of torque that's for sure.

The fiancé has been driving me around in it loads since my knee shenanigans and although she loves her Fiesta she finds the A4 way easier to get a shift on. She often forgets that she can easily pass multiple cars on the bypass where she'd have to sit behind them in the Fiesta

[Blade]

It's a satisfying surge of torque that's for sure.

The fiancé has been driving me around in it loads since my knee shenanigans and although she loves her Fiesta she finds the A4 way easier to get a shift on. She often forgets that she can easily pass multiple cars on the bypass where she'd have to sit behind them in the Fiesta

Secret as you know is to short shift and stay in the low end torque

Get a tuning box fitted or a remap, it made a big difference. I only had the 110tdi tuned and it would leave my BIL's Imprezza for dead in midrange acceleration

[Cav]

I pissed off a 350Z a few months back as I stayed with him from 30 to 70 all in one gear

I actually rev it out to around 3250 in 2nd and 3rd then let it rev out to 3900 in 4th. I love annoying little sports cars like Porsche Caymans too, they aren't all that quick in gear

[C00kiemonster]

Those 1.9's were good and fast, i had one in a Mk4 Golf GT around 2002 i think.

Problem with the last 10/15 years of diesel is all the emissions stuff on them. Catalysts, EGR valves, Higher pressure turbos, add blu, dual mass flywheels and other shite that is the stuff that goes badly wrong on modern cars and costs a fortune to replace (and frequently does go wrong). Never again.

Most of these measure are short sighted fudges to meet test cycles and political whims anyway. Diesel should never have been encouraged beyond commercial traffic.

The torque was nice on my diesel cars but i wont miss their low revving and noise, plus the smell and pain of getting diesel on your hands or the forecourt with diesel on it.

[Cav]

The sound isn't something I notice because the A4 is bloody quiet on the motorway. What I did notice going down to Devon in a Cactus last weekend was how much wind and tyre noise there was in that thing but also that there was zero engine noise. That was a 130bhp 1.2 turbo 3 cylinder and it definitely wasn't doing the 60+ I would have gotten from my diesel.

Diesel on your hands is annoying though, granted.

Thankfully mine is pre-DPF though the EGR does start to play up with frequent short journeys - we did a delivery of wedding invitations last night so the engine was going for around an hour, came home via the motorway doing 70mph in 4th for 5 miles then gunning it from 1800-4000rpm on the bypass coming home. Not a hint of smoke by the end of that journey

[Kwacky]

Bloody car wankers

[Cav]

I was getting 12mpg at Portimao - mostly thanks to their 10% ethanol premium fuel

[C00kiemonster]

The sound isn't something I notice because the A4 is bloody quiet on the motorway. What I did notice going down to Devon in a Cactus last weekend was how much wind and tyre noise there was in that thing but also that there was zero engine noise. That was a 130bhp 1.2 turbo 3 cylinder and it definitely wasn't doing the 60+ I would have gotten from my diesel.

Diesel on your hands is annoying though, granted.

Thankfully mine is pre-DPF though the EGR does start to play up with frequent short journeys - we did a delivery of wedding invitations last night so the engine was going for around an hour, came home via the motorway doing 70mph in 4th for 5 miles then gunning it from 1800-4000rpm on the bypass coming home. Not a hint of smoke by the end of that journey

They are good for long journeys.

List of things i've replaced or had to sort on current diesel mondeo - EGR, DPF, catalyst, new dual mass flywheel all in the time i've had it.. Hence my reluctance now

[Blade]

My 330d was quiet as a whisper and surprisingly frugal for a 3 litre 6 cylinder car.

I remember doing 80 up a hill with 4 people in the car and the boot fully loaded coming back from Cornwall and the real-time mpg reading never dropped below 50 mpg.

[duke63]

Older diesels are starting to get hit by congestion charges too. The one in Birmingham comes into force at the end of the year and will mean that anything below Euro 5 will not be cost effective if you want to enter the City centre.

[Cav]

Cookie.. unfortunately that's a Ford diesel thing. I'll never buy one.

The 330d is a prime motorway cruiser thanks to it's massively long gearing

[Kwacky]

I had to stop off earlier than expected for fuel and ended up paying £1.33 a litre.

[D6]

1.20 the other day at Tamworth Asda