21-09-2016, 11:39 AM
(This post was last modified: 21-09-2016, 05:58 PM by DeeTurbo.
Edit Reason: Updated mileage to 334k
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(21-09-2016, 09:06 AM)Toms306 Wrote:(20-09-2016, 10:49 PM)DeeTurbo Wrote:(20-09-2016, 02:43 PM)Toms306 Wrote: I've not had a good high miler yet, luck of the draw I guess.
Do like the colour of this tbh, not many in that colour!
Wasn't Simon's china blue one not any good?
No! I changed half of it and it still felt like a knackered high miler, first time I drove it I could barely use the clutch so that was first on the list, Simon hadn't even mentioned how bad it was so I guess didn't realise. Plus either the engine was worn or it had a bad map, easily the slowest stage 1 I'd had. I sold it within a month iirc for a lot less than I'd put into it. Exhaust fell in half just as I was selling it as well. Shortly after that a hidden rusty brake pipe gave up and tried to kill the new owner. Now Bash is having a lot of issues with rust in weird places and various other things from the sound of it...
I'm sure Simon had got used to it over the years and believed it to all be good as things slowly get worse, and I'm certainly not blaming him in any way for it, but I'd say we have different ideas of 'decent', it was very noticeably a high miler compared to the 1.8 306 it replaced, it's not even like I was comparing to anything new. I wouldn't have bought it if I was able to test drive it, but I wasn't and am very grateful for Simon delivering it, even if it didn't turn out to be so good in the end.
Out of interest, how miles is your DTurbo on now? Must be over 320k by now?
I'm only on around 334k now, I don't do anywhere near the miles I used to do. I also started lift sharing to work so that almost halved the annual miles for three year and now having the estate and '6 that'll keep some miles off.
It's a shame I should have let you drive the Dturbo that time I popped round. I feels so much more better then the '6 in terms of ride quality, feeling tight with no knocks, bangs or rattles. It does feel a little slow though but better since changing the cambelt as the garage had the tension too tight. I was really surprised how much of a difference that made.