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Author Topic: So what have you done to your car today?  (Read 3055453 times)

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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20310 on: 04 May 2020, 18:02:12 »

My 2.0 diesel is sitting on 44mpg, not bad for town driving, with very little on the road, of course.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20311 on: 04 May 2020, 18:06:31 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20312 on: 04 May 2020, 18:16:02 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above bellow the speed limit should be culled immediately.
FTFY  :)

in that case we need minimum speed signs .....



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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20313 on: 04 May 2020, 18:18:23 »

And cull councillors hell bent on making everything rural a 50mph limit.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20314 on: 04 May 2020, 19:49:52 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.

When I first read that I thought that you were condemning people for speeding and I came over all funny.  ;D
Having re-read it, I see it as a perfectly normal, rational remark.  :y ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20315 on: 05 May 2020, 10:43:00 »

They key, I guess, is to keep the torque converter locked up, so perhaps manually select a lower gear to keep the rpm a smidge above lock up :-\

Obviously in the absence of being allowed to blow ditheres out of the way ::)

ZF6 and ZF8 lockup at any rpm, its dependent on throttle input more than anything  :y

ZF8 is more economical than the 6 due to being able to lockup in any cog (and having some extra gears)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20316 on: 05 May 2020, 17:15:23 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.

When I first read that I thought that you were condemning people for speeding and I came over all funny.  ;D
Having re-read it, I see it as a perfectly normal, rational remark.  :y ;D
Though you and I are reformed characters, aren't we :P
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20317 on: 05 May 2020, 17:16:26 »

30.4 mpg today :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20318 on: 05 May 2020, 17:16:55 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.

When I first read that I thought that you were condemning people for speeding and I came over all funny.  ;D
Having re-read it, I see it as a perfectly normal, rational remark.  :y ;D
Though you and I are reformed characters, aren't we :P
And honest truth, I've not broken the speed limit this month. Reformed, I tell you, reformed.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20319 on: 05 May 2020, 17:17:47 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.

When I first read that I thought that you were condemning people for speeding and I came over all funny.  ;D
Having re-read it, I see it as a perfectly normal, rational remark.  :y ;D
Though you and I are reformed characters, aren't we :P
And honest truth, I've not broken the speed limit this month. Reformed, I tell you, reformed.
That's because you haven't been out.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20320 on: 05 May 2020, 17:18:02 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.

When I first read that I thought that you were condemning people for speeding and I came over all funny.  ;D
Having re-read it, I see it as a perfectly normal, rational remark.  :y ;D
Though you and I are reformed characters, aren't we :P
And honest truth, I've not broken the speed limit this month. Reformed, I tell you, reformed.
Yes, but how many times has the car left the close?  ::)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20321 on: 05 May 2020, 17:22:06 »

Anyone unprepared, due to skill or some kind of deluded eco view, to drive at or above the speed limit should be culled immediately.

When I first read that I thought that you were condemning people for speeding and I came over all funny.  ;D
Having re-read it, I see it as a perfectly normal, rational remark.  :y ;D
Though you and I are reformed characters, aren't we :P
And honest truth, I've not broken the speed limit this month. Reformed, I tell you, reformed.
That's because you haven't been out.
So?  The fact remains, I've not broken the law this month :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20322 on: 05 May 2020, 17:22:34 »

No, that's a lie. I have not broken the speed limit this month.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20323 on: 05 May 2020, 19:53:28 »

Were only 5 days in. Give it time.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #20324 on: 05 May 2020, 20:20:36 »

Washed both of them. Had to jump start the Omega as I left the sidelights on yesterday.
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