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CalvinGTI · Post by **CalvinGTI** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 8:03 am

yea man your no doubt right, im bound to be reducing the life of it a little i suppose, but then again you always hear about people saying "Veedubs go for thousands of miles more than a rival car'

i juse like hearing ma BMC change its tone haha woohoo !

I do service it all the time though and replace anything that needs it straight away, so i guess i dont mnistreat it that badly. Like u said in a diff post Tahrey1043 whats the point in having a big engined car if your gonna do 30 mph everywhere?

your simply just posing like a sap :Â¬P

Calâ„¢

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 10:48 am

well thats if u have a car that goes faster than 30mph!

CalvinGTI · Post by **CalvinGTI** » Fri Nov 05, 2004 11:31 am

haha are you saying yours doesnt?

must be them 18" taking all the speed out of ya 1 Litre !!

haha even my ancient 1st car which was a Golf 1.3 did 115mph on the M11 !!!!!

On a slight decline, but it was still whooping ass !

haha

G

carmadaaron · Post by **carmadaaron** » Sat Nov 06, 2004 10:47 am

CalvinGTI wrote:haha are you saying yours doesnt?

must be them 18" taking all the speed out of ya 1 Litre !!

emm it does 120mph and its not a 1.0. 9ns dont comein 1.0

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 2:09 pm

Had a hard time last night convincing a co-worker that they needed to service their 1.4 Ibiza or maybe get it to a garage pronto because "i was well chuffed last night, got it up to 100 downhill - mind you thought it was going to fall apart at 80!" .... eek. I could beat you in a race mate, and i'm effectively a cylinder short of you - sort that bugger out!

Maybe they're not people feathering the throttle in overpowered cars... perhaps they're all really badly tuned?

nuttinnew · Post by **nuttinnew** » Sun Nov 07, 2004 3:47 pm

My old 1.0 mk3 Fox gave 40mpg around town and I had 53mpg out of it on a long motorway trip (probably at 53mph...). My current 6n 1.3 seems quite poor in comparison though I've not had a chance to check it properly yet. I'm annoyed to find the gearing similar to my GT; fine on the GT as they encourage high revs but damn annoying on a daily plodder that seems to spend most of it's time past peak torque

My GT? That used to get down to about 23mpg, somehow I never seemed to drive it gently. I blame the head, Schrick, decat and chip

My mk1 gives mid 30s; unfortunatley it's underpowered in modern traffic and needs working quite hard just to keep up with slow moving traffic

For best cheap daily driver economy I'd suggest a mk3 1.0 with an ABD throttle body, remap and 8p box. The ABD tb helps torque noticeably, made a very worthwhile improvement for the 20 it cost me

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 2:09 am

Well if the in-game modern VW boxes i've used are representative of the real thing, they're heinously short.... What you get on a 1.4 Lupo - quite long, you would think - is basically a mk3 1-litre 5 speed with a diff thats barely higher than the 8P... Its probably a little shorter in top than the GT box!

MPG