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Fair enough, he should have used it then.
And FWIW, even "fill for life" (Ha, thats a joke and a half) transmissions have replacing the oil as one of the fixes for a multitude of issues.
Most/many cheapy transmissions have an oil service interval as well.
I'm still resisting the urge to ask Smartboy for a price on the RS6, I need a new commuter in the new year, but that would only lead to me getting into right foot related trouble
Heart is very interested, wallet far less so.
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I don't commute so come on Smartboy.....
DickBarton - Member
Got to be the VR4 version though. I was having a mild disagreement with a mutual friend about manual vs automatic. I think manual, he thinks auto. He's wrong.
Still: £2-3k, 280+bhp, 0-60 in 5.5s, acres of space in the boot - it's a good shout. Horrendous on fuel though.Agreed...on all of it...I was getting 22mpg before I was attempting anything spirited...
That'll be why then - the manuals were very short-geared and mostly crap. I owned both. We had the AC on in an auto VR-4 at (almost) full blast with a full boot through Germany and averaged 30.6mpg. Good luck getting that with manual VR-4s. We generally averaged 25 - 27mpg otherwise. My manual gave me around 19mpg!
I had a Volvo V50 T5R for a while and it was pretty rapid and fairly big inside, they can be had for 5k up so perhaps one for the list, not too bad on fuel and mine was reliable. Boot is not as big as other estates but big enough for our 4 + 2 dogs.
Wait, I have the solution. You seem to like the car other than the EGR, DPF and economy. I have a mk3 2.2 with no DPF, mid-50s economy, and a blanked EGR. And the clutch and DMF are 120000 miles old which means statistically, they will never fail. Swapsies!
I was in this postion recently and bought a Series 1 Nissan Stagea import. I love it.