I did it with help from a friend whos done it before and I think one long day to do it all if you start from a point of bumper off/rad pack off and sat on axle stands. SO yeah two days easy with two people for one day and yourslef refittign everything the next day and doing coolant etc..
Today I fuelled up the TDI. It's been doing the daily work run 7 miles to work, A road to work & M55 on the way home plus lots of evening short runs (Dad's taxi) all with lights on wipers and heated seats, sometime heated heated screen & fans on etc
Tank to tank fill 55mpg.
Interesting. I filled up the car earlier in the week and calculated just over 73mpg, 50/50 mix of town/minor roads and A/B roads, no motorway driving. TDI special edition, MZN box. I do a lot of miles, usually fill up a couple of times a week and have seen between 71mpg and 79mpg lately.
Very true. I also count myself lucky that living right on the south coast we've not seen a frost so far this year and the overnight temperature has rarely dropped into single digits, even if it has been rubbish weather more generally!
Nearly all my running in my TDI is my 22-mile commute through the Chilterns to the north-west of London. Mostly cross-country and keeping moving, with a bit of urban work for the charity food pickup from the supermarkets once a fortnight. I find my DIS is normally pretty accurate over a tankful against my calculated brim-to-brim figures, but this year I've not been resetting it every fill-up, to look at the longer-term average over however many miles it stores the information. This has gradually crept down from nearly 62 in the summer, to just under 60mpg.
What was wrong with it?
Hi, it didn't fire up, likely because the glow pin was all caked up, it have fault of the pin not igniting. I refit one I bought from here which was correctly sold as working. I'll repair my one another time as parts are expensive about £130 for a pin and gauze burner set I believe.
I've noticed a similar phenomena, generally when I'm in a smaller car people will do far less predictable and far more aggressive things than when I was in my E39 5 series. This is true for both of my A2's and mini R53 Mini. Was also true for the Triumph GT6 I had, but that thing was so short you could almost excuse some people for looking straight over it!
Can you elaborate on what's involved? Have also seen indicators added to the fogs, very swish!!
. I personally feel that until it is made mandatory that anyone that has a driving licence must undertake an eye test every 2 years this problem will continue.