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by Glyn406
Thu Jun 28, 2012 9:27 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Advice on HDi please
Replies: 12
Views: 5087

Re: Advice on HDi please

I wish that I'd changed it before spending the last grand and a half on the petrol model! Seriously, it's great. Incidentally, I tried to fit a 'Dieselhead' no-petrol-allowed device on the fuel tank inlet, but despite what it said on their website I found that it prevented the flap from closing. Pit...
by Glyn406
Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:07 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Advice on HDi please
Replies: 12
Views: 5087

Re: Advice on HDi please

Well, I took the plunge and went for a 110 Executive with leather seats, which my wife says are the most comfortable that she's ever known - sufficient to say that the Halfords accessory back cushion has gone to the bin; the heating in the seats has helped in this respect too. The car I bought was r...
by Glyn406
Mon Nov 28, 2011 10:10 am
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Advice on HDi please
Replies: 12
Views: 5087

Re: Advice on HDi please

Hello all Thanks for your helpful comments. Lumbar support certainly was available as an option (on some trim levels anyway) as the illustration of the seats and their adjustment in the handbook to my 1987 car shows the knob which activates and adjusts it, with the comment 'according to specificatio...
by Glyn406
Thu Nov 17, 2011 10:00 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Advice on HDi please
Replies: 12
Views: 5087

Re: Advice on HDi please

Sorry! 'and mechanical' should have been 'unmechanical'. VR software!
by Glyn406
Thu Nov 17, 2011 9:24 pm
Forum: Welcome!
Topic: Advice on HDi please
Replies: 12
Views: 5087

Advice on HDi please

Hello I'm new to this forum, and hope that some of the old hands can give me advice. I've been driving a petrol engined LX 406 estate for the last 13 years, from nearly new (17K miles) to pretty worn out (150K and counting). It's now living on borrowed time, but I really do like the 406 estate and a...