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New Golf 1.6 FSI Mini Review.
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Re: New Golf 1.6 FSI Mini Review. -
01-26-2007
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DervMan wrote: SWMBO has had a 60bhp Seat Ibiza for about 5 years now. It redfines slow. Strangely though, we have never felt the inclination to get rid of it. We have acouple of Bitzer 1.4 75bhp's and to be honest their not slow at all! Easily keep up with yer common-or-garden Focus 1.6's. Amazing how the same engine can have split personalities... Tim.. Er, but the 1.6 focus IS slow. Painfully so.  Indeed! Well it's hampered by overly tall gearing, innit? Not really - I mean, the gear spacing is such that you can keep it on the boil ok, it's more hampered by the fact that it's woefully underpowered |
you'd only use first, second and occasionally third gear inside the speed
limit. From one perspective it is overgeared.
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"DervMan" <thedervman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45ba1975$0$31226$da0feed9 (AT) news (DOT) zen.co.uk... Later stuff appears to be more accurate, but it depends. Many cars' instruments merely show you what the electronics think you want to know. Coolant gauges these days merely tell you if the engine is cold, warming up, normal, starting to get too warm or overheating - they're essentially six position dials. Proper gauges showed you the temperature... IIRC mine has numbers on if that helps heh. It's not one I ever look at for a great deal of time TBH heh. |
Oh, ya, it's leased. As you were... :-p
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It's going to be the same with fuel. "Full." "Half way there." "Think about stopping for fuel." "Stop now." The trip computer tells me all those things :-) |
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"Iridium" <iridiumdan (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:51uk1bF1m09vuU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net... "DervMan" <thedervman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45ba1975$0$31226$da0feed9 (AT) news (DOT) zen.co.uk... Later stuff appears to be more accurate, but it depends. Many cars' instruments merely show you what the electronics think you want to know. Coolant gauges these days merely tell you if the engine is cold, warming up, normal, starting to get too warm or overheating - they're essentially six position dials. Proper gauges showed you the temperature... IIRC mine has numbers on if that helps heh. It's not one I ever look at for a great deal of time TBH heh. No? Pah. It's worth looking at to know when you are able to cane it. Oh, ya, it's leased. As you were... :-p |
gauge is well off the bottom anyway, and I bet the oil gets warmer loads
quicker than the coolant, been that it's the friction/movement of what is in
the oil that heats up the block and coolant and stuff.
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It's going to be the same with fuel. "Full." "Half way there." "Think about stopping for fuel." "Stop now." The trip computer tells me all those things :-) Yes; legacy instruments... |
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"DervMan" <thedervman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45ba5392$0$2449$db0fefd9 (AT) news (DOT) zen.co.uk... "Iridium" <iridiumdan (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:51uk1bF1m09vuU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net... "DervMan" <thedervman (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote in message news:45ba1975$0$31226$da0feed9 (AT) news (DOT) zen.co.uk... Later stuff appears to be more accurate, but it depends. Many cars' instruments merely show you what the electronics think you want to know. Coolant gauges these days merely tell you if the engine is cold, warming up, normal, starting to get too warm or overheating - they're essentially six position dials. Proper gauges showed you the temperature... IIRC mine has numbers on if that helps heh. It's not one I ever look at for a great deal of time TBH heh. No? Pah. It's worth looking at to know when you are able to cane it. Oh, ya, it's leased. As you were... :-p Well, thats not really it, cos by the time I've got out of the village the gauge is well off the bottom anyway, and I bet the oil gets warmer loads quicker than the coolant, been that it's the friction/movement of what is in the oil that heats up the block and coolant and stuff. |
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It's going to be the same with fuel. "Full." "Half way there." "Think about stopping for fuel." "Stop now." The trip computer tells me all those things :-) Yes; legacy instruments... I dunno what that means - is it like a Mac? |
LOL!
"Stuff what's there but doesn't really have a genuine purpose 'cos something
modern has come along to replace it."
A bit like Kate Moss.
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"Albert T Cone" <mmmm (AT) pie (DOT) com> wrote in message news:51ujveF1lpi0qU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net... Er, but the 1.6 focus IS slow. Painfully so. Indeed! Well it's hampered by overly tall gearing, innit? Not really - I mean, the gear spacing is such that you can keep it on the boil ok, it's more hampered by the fact that it's woefully underpowered That's relative of course. It *is* possible to keep it on the boil but you'd only use first, second and occasionally third gear inside the speed limit. From one perspective it is overgeared. Fair enough, but it's not the reason that it's slow :P |
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