06-05-2012, 12:33 PM
Dum-Dum Wrote:Tom half of your problem sounds like youve bought a bit of a pup. Mine is 20 years old and I love it
Your tyres must be shit cos I cant lock the wheels in mine even in the wet but it stops very quickly
Got a glow plug stuck in the head, no problems, I bought a whole new engine for £30. The cold start probably needs you to adjust the cable, I had to do mine.
Also i dont find it unstable, Ive done 250 motorway miles in the last 2 days, keeping up with the flow of traffic and the wind/slipstreams have no effect.
Yes its painfully slow and dosent accelerate but it reminds you of how to drive properly using good judgement, anticipation, skill reading the road ahead, positioning and such like cos if you cant accelerate you dont want to slow down so you have to drive well to keep the speed up. They handle surprisingly well (especially on 195 tyres) even on 3 wheels i cant get it to LO-OS.
Oh and my best is now up to 65.1mpg
No its got good tyres, 2 new falkens not long ago, and doesn't 'slide' around certain slippery corners like the golf does (too much rubber on the road and not enough drainige on the goodyears on the golf i think) BUT they are only 165 wide on the 106 lol.
Wanted to put the clones on but they have 55 profile so that just wouldn't work lol. Mine locks in the dry easily btw. 
hock: And in the wet it was shocking on muddy back roads.......it skidded so much it felt like abs was kicking in...sideways. :?Buying the engine might be cheap but fitting it isn't that easy! I was wondering if i could get the glowplug out with a screw extractor? :think: If i did that I would sort the cold start and the squeling aux belt all at the same time. If not, it'll get sold like it lol.
I guess you don't go over many windy bridges in yours.....going over the Orwell bridge in it you dont really have any steering control...you just end up where the wind takes you.
I dont have to drive that well tbh? I dont slow down in the golf either, but thats more to do with mpg than slowness. Momentum is the key with mpg and the NAD lol. The main problem I have with it is the acceleration though, as theres very few places to safely overtake on my road in such a slow car and if you dont time it just right you lose the overtaking opertunity, whereas in the golf I can pretty much boot it past slow people anywhere without worrying about it. Unfortuantely this inablilitiy to overtake brings on panic attacks when I think I'm 'stuck' behind people and gonna be late.
I must admit it doesn't handle badly, for the high ride height, skinny tyres and massive suspension travel I can hold it round corners at speed better than the golf........must be the lack of wieght I guess.