What Car? (1.5-3k)

[Stuart]

Thats the only endearing feature of the PD110, you can rinse its nuts off and she'll do 60mpg all day long

35mpg from the MK4 is GOOD!!!!! peak I saw was once we got 33mpg on a long gentle run
Just picked the Clio up from home to come into the office, kicked her head in and it was claiming 35mpg

[Paul]

Clio 172/182 cambelt with dephaser pulley aux belt water pump service etc is approx £400+ in parts book time of 5hours for the cambelt and another 2 iirc for auxbelt. Be warned its a **** of a job.

[Mazz]

Dare i say, what wrong with the Nova as toy, and have a boring diesel daily? That's what i've done..

My 130 A4 does 50mpg mpg plus all day long..

[Stuart]

Dare i say, what wrong with the Nova as toy, and have a boring diesel daily? That's what i've done..

My 130 A4 does 50mpg mpg plus all day long..

I pondered similar before getting the clio, but with the double tax/insurance/MOT/servicing etc I worked out that its cheaper to run something in the middle of toy and boring.

Some of the clio specialists charge £500-600ish for the belts service using the proper (full) timing tool set. Or buy one with the belts already done

[scott.parker]

Look at the skoda's or seat's as there slightly cheaper then there Audi/VW replica's, but if you want something thats cheep, good on fuel and got some poke look at 2002-2005 passat's and the estates are cool imo, lot of good car for the money.. and they should all be 110-130 hi line PD engines etc.

OR a massively over looked outsider, is a SIGNUM CDTDI.

[pikey1986]

theirs been a lot of signum talk on here lately, are they really that under-rated?

[scott.parker]

theirs been a lot of signum talk on here lately, are they really that under-rated?

IMO yes, as they are not as ugly as a vectra estate, can have the sport vectra sri front end, the rear ends nice and round, yet practical etc, and can come with good TD engines and be nicely modified if you wish..





Or mix it up with vag wheels!

[pikey1986]

im off to autotrader to check prices, all 3 of them look pretty nice especially on the vag rims

[Adam]

Thats the only endearing feature of the PD110, you can rinse its nuts off and she'll do 60mpg all day long

35mpg from the MK4 is GOOD!!!!! peak I saw was once we got 33mpg on a long gentle run
Just picked the Clio up from home to come into the office, kicked her head in and it was claiming 35mpg

That 35mpg was sitting at 60ish on the m5 for about 180mile, mk4's are horrific on fuel for what they are. 2.0 eco being the worst

Paul-Yeah ive heard its a right s**t to do, so would look for one that had been done recently-ish, to avoid that being a problem.

Mazz-Dont think that'll ever happen again, the whole "toy" thing is just a massive drain on funds having nova taxed/insured for a year and using it once a month(back when i could actually use it ), its just the best part of a grand a year just to have it driveable. Its currently well past useable(no wheels, brakes seized etc )
Dont know why ive still even got it tbh.

Think im definently going to keep a cliosport and leon cupra as my two main options, then vag tdi 3rd option if i cant find a decent example of the above.

[Mazz]

I know what your saying, but imo, going from a Cav V6 daily to a diesel, the fuel difference is most of the cost of putting the Nova OTR.