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[Doctor Gollum]

Or a trailer

[henryd]

Or a trailer

not the pikey wagon though,it ain't got the right numbers on the weight plate, oddly though the Aero estate can tow it but not sure I would want to with WWD

[henryd]

You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd

Ahem, its starting to look that way

[Sir Tigger KC]

You have a Saab fettish Mr henryd

Perhaps he believes a Scandi car will pull a leggy blonde scandi girl.

I don't think a Scandi Volvo would pull anything other than a blue rinse....

Oi! Volvo's are very roomy and comfortable I'll have you know!  Plenty of room for a flexible leggy blonde Scandi girl! 

If only I knew that from first hand experience!     

[Marks DTM Calib]

It's a bit more reliable than the 16v lump

So they say,heres hoping they are right

Yet the 197k miles I put on my 16V lump suggests no real issues with that one either.

[Doctor Gollum]

I may be jaded because my early facelift Vectra C 16v 1.9 was a complete dog. It had two inlet manifolds in the six months/25k I owned it (bought at a year old with 10k on it) along with a load of recall/warranty work. It never idled correctly even with the new manifolds. A '58 16v auto did nothing to improve the impression that first one made. Which is why the next three Vectra Cs I bought were all 1.8 petrols... All three of which gave less trouble than that first diesel (over 10x the mileage between them)

The 8v doesn't have swirl flaps and doesn't seem to eat manifolds.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Mine never had a manifold, it was original, sign of a bit of play in the swirls but nothing terrible.

As for idle, inlet manifold on a diesel can play no part in a lumpy idle 

[Doctor Gollum]

I think it had been a dealer demonstrator in north east Lundun. Never idled properly and used to soot up the manifold summat rotten.

Being stuffed into a roundabout was the best thing that happened to that pos. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

I think it had been a dealer demonstrator in north east Lundun. Never idled properly and used to soot up the manifold summat rotten.

Being stuffed into a roundabout was the best thing that happened to that pos. 

Poor idle with high levels of soot hints at an injector issue, sounds like the manifold may have been a symptom rather than cause.

Trouble is the modern engines are way to complex for most techs 

[Doctor Gollum]

It was a Network Q car, so at least carried a year's warranty 

[TheBoy]

It was a Network Q car, so at least carried a year's warranty 

Shame it was a dealer warranty. So you were donald ducked before you started

[Doctor Gollum]

It was a Network Q car, so at least carried a year's warranty 

Shame it was a dealer warranty. So you were donald ducked before you started

Not quite a Donald as when I found out that the finance manager had lied about the Gap insurance when I wrote it off

Still, she ended up in prison, so what goes around etc...