Eggsauce MPG Capers not Peugeot not Volvo

[Welly]

Her indoors'ses Voxhorl Arsetray had begun farting eggsauce gases from a place other than the tailpipe recently.

Bit of History: Mr Welly noticed a slightly gruff sounding Astra and ignored......Mrs Welly proclaimed OMGMPG's recently....then the eggsauce fartage got real bad and now sounds like someones smashed a hole in the fanimold. Mr Welly crawls underneath the thing to find a gaping hole in the flexi pipe....this gets interesting I promise....this hole is in between the two Lambda's (TWO count them! watching over the CAT) soooo I'm finking the second lambda is not 'seeing' what it wants due most of the gas pissing out before it? and the eee-see-you over fueling?

Academic really as it's having a new eggsauce tubage solution today but would that make sense about the MPG's?

[highlander]

Yes, it'd make a difference. As is my understanding (this may be entirely inaccurate), the ECU's antipollution system uses the sensors on the cat to detect whether or not the cat is doing its job properly, and adjusts the mix to try to compensate and comply with EuroWhatever antipollution regulations.

[Welly]

Just back from the eggsauce place, £75.00 lighter, new Bosal front section and flexi and a correctly-removed and refitted Lambda sensor so all's good again.

Her indoors drove the Volvo today, she said it was 'cronky' and all my climate settings have been messed with and there was confusion over the auto-wipers because I hadn't delivered the training required to operate them and it just so happened that the heavens opened with her at the wheel, typical.

[DaiRees]

Her indoors drove the Volvo today, she said it was 'cronky' and all my climate settings have been messed with and there was confusion over the auto-wipers because I hadn't delivered the training required to operate them and it just so happened that the heavens opened with her at the wheel, typical.

Don't you just love 'em? 2 years later and SWMBO still hasn't driven my Volvo, dunno whether she's scared of it's sheer size or something

The time will no doubt come when she'll have to drive it when I'm not there, then we won't have a clue how to drive a diseasel, how to operate the electronic handbrake or any of the other toys etc, and I've seen the state of her car, d'ya know what, not happening! That'd cause a domestic!

[Welly]

Funny thing is the Astra is quite nice to drive it's very compliant and just sort of does what you want it to, the Volvo feels a bit more of a handful I guess. You can imagine what I was thinking today knowing she was out in a T5 in the rain and only having driven it once before

We've had the Astra for 7 years now, and Volvo 5 years that's not a bad recommendation really. The neighbores look down their noses at our Vehicles I think (we live in a really fancy street, got kinda lucky with it) my next-door knob jockey has just 'taken delivery' (literally, oooh look at me ) of a Porsche Panamera. Funny how people judge you based upon the car you have, I am convinced the older motors we traditionally keep scream "stay away" and yet we could be the richest people in the street.

Ramble ramble waffle ~~~~~

[Bailes1992]

When I had my Focus off my Mum it came with a blow in the exhaust and the engine management light on!
First 6 weeks of me having it I was getting between 18 and 22mpg. Had a mix of all sorts wrong with it. Precat lambda was knackered due to oil consumption/not ever getting hot enough to burn all the crud away, the cat was knackered and there was a blow in the flexi.
I had a new CAT fitted, new flexi welded in place and two new lambdas then the next day I gave it a service and after that it always done 35-50mpg.

£75 for a new front section fitted is a bargain!

[Welly]

£75 for a new front section fitted is a bargain!

Is it? thanks! it has a flange at the CAT end (CAT is part of the manifold pointing down) then runs about 1200mm to the centre silencer with a clamp fitting and has a flexi in the middle too. I didn't know what to expect cost-wise. Hopefully the MPG will be better now. The engine never uses oil, I gave up checking it in the end to be honest as it was always full

[highlander]

flange

Ha ha, you said "flange"