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Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ruan - 23-07-2012
Car was pretty much faultless, used £80 of fuel, which isn't horrendous considering it's a GTi6... Well, it is, but for a janky petrol I suppose it's OK...
Got to outside my housemates work to pick up new discs and pads for it... Then it proceedes not to start. The negative terminal which is clamped on tight has just decided it doesn't want to work, so I then set about getting the pliers I dropped between the aircon and main radiator, managed to get them (bearing in mind I'd just done 200 miles in it back home, it was rather warm and being a petrol it decides to run at a billion degrees..), took it off, put it back on and it works.
Sometimes I just hate cheapy shit - cost saving measures which just make things worse... It's hardly like I've ever pissed about with the negative terminal... Any normal person would have had that problem and had to call out the AA...
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - ginge191 - 23-07-2012
I'm doing a good 1200 mile round trip with the derv this weekend; should be interesting how that goes. Hoping to do it on 2 tanks of fuel... Should be interesting!
Gz nonetheless
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - lewisdmz - 23-07-2012
You got 550 from 1 tank on a GTi6? Are you sure you weren't being towed
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - mark_airey - 23-07-2012
Cool story bro....................but it has the wrong engine and runs on the incorrect fuel.................for that reason, I'm out
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ed Doe - 23-07-2012
That's pretty good fuel econ tbh Ruan!
Assuming Gloucester prices of fuel are about £130.9 a litre ?
that means 550miles with £80 spent on fuel works out at 60l or so, which is just under 41mpg!
That's pretty epic economy for a '6, seriously! You must tell me your secret
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - mark_airey - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 12:09 PM)Ed Doe Wrote: That's pretty good fuel econ tbh Ruan!
Assuming Gloucester prices of fuel are about £130.9 a litre ?
that means 550miles with £80 spent on fuel works out at 60l or so, which is just under 41mpg!
That's pretty epic economy for a '6, seriously! You must tell me your secret
Thats easy Ed, don't hoon everywhere on the limiter like you do
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ed Doe - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 12:10 PM)mark_airey Wrote: Thats easy Ed, don't hoon everywhere on the limiter like you do
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RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Toms306 - 23-07-2012
Howwww much?? :O
I'd have done that on £50................damn fuel economy, I don't want a '6 anymore.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ed Doe - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 12:16 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Howwww much?? :O
I'd have done that on £50................damn fuel economy, I don't want a '6 anymore.
Tom, you'd have arrived 5 years late shaking like a shitting dog, with a beard in contention for the longest ever grown (yes I saw the 'movember effort' I still stand by my statement)
In short, for the extra £30, I'd rather have driven it in a car worth driving.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Toms306 - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 12:19 PM)Ed Doe Wrote:(23-07-2012, 12:16 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Howwww much?? :O
I'd have done that on £50................damn fuel economy, I don't want a '6 anymore.
Tom, you'd have arrived 5 years late shaking like a shitting dog, with a beard in contention for the longest ever grown (yes I saw the 'movember effort' I still stand by my statement)
In short, for the extra £30, I'd rather have driven it in a car worth driving.
Well.......I can't argue with that!
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - C.A.R. - 23-07-2012
Tom, £65 maybe, but £50 is 70mpg and I'm affraid that is therefore bullsh*t.
Unless you've found diesel somewhere that's £1 / liter!
Ruan would've averaged 40mpg to his £80, so not bad for a GTi6...
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - bongo - 23-07-2012
+1 on the MPG - you sure that's a 6 as mine does nothing like that and I wish for MPG like that!!
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Toms306 - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 12:21 PM)c.a.r. Wrote: Tom, £65 maybe, but £50 is 70mpg and I'm affraid that is therefore bullsh*t.
Unless you've found diesel somewhere that's £1 / liter!
Ruan would've averaged 40mpg to his £80, so not bad for a GTi6...
I'm doing less than 10 pence per mile Chris, think it was 65mpg last tank, so between £50 and £55...certainly not £65 lol, as I do 600 miles a fortnight and don't hit £65!!
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ruan - 23-07-2012
If you don't drive it like you stole it or labour the engine, they're not actually that bad...
Saying that, in that £80 was when I went with Ed and Adam for a quick drive, where I did spank it significantly... So tbh, high 30s I suppose isn't horrific for an old 2.0 16v "GTi"...
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Niall - 23-07-2012
And you did spank it a few times when you was down here. Not bad econ at all!
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ruan - 23-07-2012
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This is the state of the brakes, though...
Some may have seen on FB already...
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Kezzieboy - 23-07-2012
Poor you, I did 677 miles this weekend and only spent 77 quid
oh, and that was one tank of fuel too, and I didn't even drive particularly economically.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Dum-Dum - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 01:28 PM)Ruan Wrote: If you don't drive it like you stole it or labour the engine, they're not actually that bad...Sorry, I dont understand, what is this "not driving like you stole it" that you talk of?
(23-07-2012, 03:03 PM)Ruan Wrote:
This is the state of the brakes, though...
Mine look like that, Ive come up with a much more imaginative solution for them though......
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Poodle - 23-07-2012
*Awaits "i've discovered OEM fitment 400mm discs for the 306" thread from Dum-dum*
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ed Doe - 23-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 03:37 PM)Poodle Wrote: *Awaits "i've discovered OEM fitment 400mm discs for the 306 with 8,000,000mm spacers under cyclones" thread from Dum-dum*
EFA
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Niall - 23-07-2012
Awaits "the service light came on on the dash so I'm scraping it in 12 minutes unless someone buys it NOW" thread
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Dum-Dum - 23-07-2012
Nope my car has no warning lights on, i "fixed" the issue, I removed the bulb.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - lewisdmz - 23-07-2012
To be fair I just got 37mpg on a 167 mile dual carriage way run. It's the short city runs that ruin them, probably averaging 28mpg around the city.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Midnightclub - 24-07-2012
I swear the 6's biggest problem is the noise... Y U SO DAMN ADDICTIVE?!
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Niall - 24-07-2012
(23-07-2012, 04:31 PM)Dum-Dum Wrote: Nope my car has no warning lights on, i "fixed" the issue, I removed the bulb.
Good luck with your next mot unless you get a very nice tester.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Scott - 24-07-2012
(24-07-2012, 09:31 AM)Midnightclub Wrote: I swear the 6's biggest problem is the noise... Y U SO DAMN ADDICTIVE?!They really are addictive. Had a Civic Type R trying to undertake me on a roundabout earlier. LOL good luck, booted it past his open window and left him there, while scaring the shit out of him with the k&N panel filter and winpipe. VTEC didn't kick in, y0?
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Midnightclub - 24-07-2012
I also blame the gearbox... 3 gears of fun and you're already doing like 90 hahaha... but yes its addictive
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Dum-Dum - 24-07-2012
(24-07-2012, 06:04 PM)Midnightclub Wrote: I also blame the gearbox... 3 gears of fun and you're already doing like 90 hahaha... but yes its addictive
Yep, Its 4k plus that its awesome all the way to the limiter. I blame this for my 20mpg fuel economy.
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Ruan - 24-07-2012
Gearbox is TOO long if you like to use the engine at lower speeds... And maybe it's just me, I'm not a total fan of the noise, I can't stand the inlet noise, I'm sure you all know this, the exhaust noise is good, but only if you have it excessively loud with straight pipes and decats...
I always find there's never enough pull until 4.5k, it's awkward to change down to first, you have to wait for the power in 2nd... You've only got two times that you've got FULL power until 65mph - from 30-35 in first and from 55-65 in second... Then you're breaking the law, and 3rd is too long... I just always find them awkward to extract power from unless you're doing 60+.... I know I'm used to being able to have FULL torque at 2200rpm, so that sways it for me...
I can safely say I've had both, but for me, Diesel is just better. The one thing the GTi6 does that the DT doesn't is be able to get STRAIGHT on the loud pedal after a gearchange, you've not got to go for 3/4 for a split second and then go for full... But that's probably more down to the fact I'm on a 100% standard LDA...
RE: Drove almost 550 miles this weekend. - Midnightclub - 24-07-2012
I'd agree first and second are probably too long but mine gets through first in no time at all, I don't know whether there's good or bad ones but mine pulls so much harder than the hdi which in theory is almost as fast, Andy can vouch for this