My New Car

[sirwiggum]

Still a lot of Skodas about.
There was one parked up the Castlereagh Road the other day, the wer doing speed checks. Luckily I was in her Hyundai which has a top speed of about 30mph, so didn't speed.
See the odd mk1 Vectra sometimes too, usually armoured. Must cost too much to replace.

Astras around South Belfast, Castlereagh area, they must be demonstrators as this is the HQs beat. All English reg. so must be registered straight from Vauxhall. Either that, or an exchange with London, they get a few dozen armoured Land Rovers now we've cut back on rioting, and we get some Astras to try and look normal.

[ToddM]

Admittedly it is a 2006 1.7 CDTI

Good Luck with that engine !

OMG mate its so quick and frugal coupled to that 6-speed! Will see how long it lasts though!

[iangt4]

OMG mate its so quick and frugal coupled to that 6-speed! Will see how long it lasts though!

Oil change, Oil change, Oil Change..... dont cut corners, forget vauxhall's schedules of 20,000 miles with 5w/30 semi synthetic, Use a good quality fully synthetic 5w/30 low ash (long life) oil every 6k to 10k (depending on driving styles) use a oil flush before changes, difference is £40 per oil change or £1400 for a low milegae engine swap every year

[sirwiggum]

20k between oil changes!!!!!

Alfa timing belt interval used to be around that!

[FarmerPug]

20k between oil changes!!!!!

Alfa timing belt interval used to be around that!

My dad tells me to change the oil every 5k

[lozz]

The old 406 saloon ihad,
the oil did 32k before it was changed, Didnt do it any harm, but its not good
for what it costs for oil iaree 5k is a good time to renew it,

inoticed after changing the oil in the pug the Mpg went up, and the turbo was alot quieter,
iguess if you intend on keeping your turbo intact then regular oil changes are the way to keep that quiet

[lozz]

20k between oil changes!!!!!

Alfa timing belt interval used to be around that!

Alfa timing belt interval, normaly they go straight on Ebay,
there a engine out job,

hence Alfas vast depreciation in value,

[FarmerPug]

but if i had the money id love one, i suppose where on something like a suzuki you just need a socket set to do the timing belt an alfa requires an engine hoist to take the engine out.

[iangt4]

the turbo was alot quieter,
iguess if you intend on keeping your turbo intact then regular oil changes are the way to keep that quiet

turbos spin at approx 120,000 rpm on full chat on 32k oil..... i love it !

[lozz]

the turbo was alot quieter,
iguess if you intend on keeping your turbo intact then regular oil changes are the way to keep that quiet

turbos spin at approx 120,000 rpm on full chat on 32k oil..... i love it !

Ha, 32k is low-mileage oil to what ive seen,
ive serviced a few taxis this summer and the oil was like tar, it makes good creosote for my fence thinned down with some diesel,
so it didnt go to waste,

Theres no Emisions testing on diesels so they can get away with not changing there oil for 10yrs asupose

[FarmerPug]

an old non turbo diesel like my dads carina could have got away without getting the oil changed in a long time, on newer cars youll wreck the turbo too easy and its a fairly important component.
I heard GM put an engine into a cadillac that could run without having a service for 100,000 miles, and you could drive it in the desert without water.

[iangt4]

trouble is when the centre turbo bearings let go they also wreck the oil seals, and in some cases that much oil passes the seals and gets into the engine that you turn the ignition off and the engine continues to bounce off the rev limiter running purely on engine oil thats passing by the turbo oil seals, you cant switch the engine off !! as we know all a diesel needs to run is a hot engine, compression & fuel, your oil pump becomes a fuel pump i bought a ford mondeo TDCi with 4 bent conrods because of this, engine reved that hard untill the sump emptied it destroyed the engine (i knew the engine & turbo was knackered)

[TooT]

Renault dCi's suffered runaway engines due to oil passing through worn turbo seals.

Just a few in the 49 pages of this thread http://www.parkers.co.uk/advice/forum/t ... C_ID=18664

[iangt4]

Renault dCi's suffered runaway engines due to oil passing through worn turbo seals.

Just a few in the 49 pages of this thread http://www.parkers.co.uk/advice/forum/t ... C_ID=18664

once again, ridiculously long service intervals, semi syth oil, and cheap filters being the cause.

[sirwiggum]

Nissan Navaras with the D22 engines would bend their conrods. The old man knows from first hand experience

Nissan and Renault are "in alliance" so I'm not sure if it is a related engine.