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« on: 06 August 2006, 09:46:12 »Quote
............... in the Citroen C4 diesel ( 61.9mpg average ) ......I can't manage that off TWO gallons!
Please play nicely. No one wants to listen/read a keyboard warriors rants....
............... in the Citroen C4 diesel ( 61.9mpg average ) ......I can't manage that off TWO gallons!
...... my 2.2 does....the best its ever done....was 25mpg on a 360 mile run and i dont drive it hard.....
........There's a mind block over manuals. I can't say specifically about manula MV6'/Elites cos I've not driven one but, surely Omegas can't be described a race cars anyway - they're a bit on the big side for slinging around corners. A bloke came into work the other week complaining about having had to queue all the way in. 'Never got out of 3rd, & my leg aches due to the clutch' he says. I suggested he got an auto. 'No bl00dy chance' he said 'I want to be in the gear I want ... not the car' :-/ Go figure that out!!
There seems to be a mind block in this country about passing your test on a manual......
OK, so by pulling the auto stick backwards you can generate some engine braking, but is there a sensible limit to max revs and time you should do this for before something breaks?Theory is that you can select 1st eg at what ever daft speed you want to but ..... the gearbox doesn't actually select that gear untill the car is going slowly enough. I've never tested it though! :-/
.....err! ...... about 50 mph exactly to avoid my picture being taken by any of the 3 speed cameras on the Elland by-pass. Gearbox stays in 4th but comes out of lock-up on the hill but then locks up towards the bottom.
In that case, you must be travelling at one helluva lick downhill!! Should be in 2 or 3 hold to get the braking!!
..... i have used the sports mode button before now to cause the gearbox to act as a brake, it kickes it down a gear and with your foot off the throttle the gearbox is braking for you....
And what's stopping you doing that with an auto Bob?I suppose it must depend on what the senso/tip/step/etc tronic box is based on. Some are auto's with manual control and some are manual boxes underneath with auto clutches, but the Mitubushi FTO that my brother had didn't really change gear any faster while in manual than if you'd selected 3 or 2 on your 'normal' auto. Once the novelty had worn off he rarely selected anything but ordinary drive.
I'd have an auto over a manual any day, but must admit, I wouldn't mind both, (selectotronic or whatever it's called!), for those odd occassions I go for it through some twisties!
...http://www.irmscher-bits.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=50_51&products_id=148Wait till you get in a nice long traffic jam! You'll be glad there's only a 'go' pedal & 'stop' pedal, with non of the 'down clutch ... upclutch' etc etc
IMHO all cars ought to be automatic except F1 which should revert to gearknobs! If the industry spent more developing auto gearboxes then they would by now have perfected them fuel economy wise, smoothness of changes and options like Sport, Economy,Hustle,Town etc.I've driven a similar rubber band/variable pulley/variator set up in an early Fiesta. Strange experience.
Anyone ever drive a Daf 44? ....
Only ever driven an auto once and found it hard to get used to not using my left foot mind you the fact I nearly put it in the back of someone doesnt help things, couldn't get used to it creeping forward. lol
there is not a best...Correct!
Having read the thread on markie's nicked Rover, it was heartwarming to read in todays paper that a guy in a microlite spotted his mate's caravan being nicked from a caravan park. He followed them in the air for 10 miles while relaying his position to his mate by mobile phone......It's shame he wasn't carrying the odd bomb or 3. [size=14]Bombs away! [/size]
.....Easy?! Driver's side is but the passenger side needs the hands of a small child to reach the back of the lamp. I found it impossible with normal size hands without moving the battery.
According to the handbook (page 121), it’s easy to change them from left dip to right dip, when I go abroad. Hmmm! I can’t see any levers, does that not apply to HID lights? ......
It does have TC and facelifts are just a normal Omega, .....It was the lack of 'TC' button that made me ask