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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6180 on: 15 October 2013, 19:24:06 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 15 October 2013, 18:47:58
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10.9mpg. Opps.

Average over a tank?  :o
Thats the only way to calculate LPG MPG AFAIK

That's what I thought, but shocked to see that over an entire tank  :o :o

Quote from: Seth on 15 October 2013, 18:52:28
Quote from: tunnie on 15 October 2013, 18:31:33
Never knew you had a Caddy Van Seth?

It's an '02 1.9SDi and technically Mrs Seth's:

En-route to the Welland Steam Rally last year with my quad-bike/trailer in tow

11 years old now, and it's been with us for almost 8 years. 145K on the clock, rock solid and around 53 mpg :y :y :y

Very nice Seth  :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6181 on: 16 October 2013, 18:02:53 »
Fitted NCDC2013 and CID in the 2.6 last night  :y

Corrected my poor soldered joint on one wire this afternoon  ::) ;D

List of jobs to do on this car is getting shorter, although I don't think the LPG kit will be ordered before Christmas now due to a) being skint! and b) having no time to install it.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6182 on: 16 October 2013, 18:06:14 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 October 2013, 18:02:53
Fitted NCDC2013 and CID in the 2.6 last night  :y

Corrected my poor soldered joint on one wire this afternoon  ::) ;D

List of jobs to do on this car is getting shorter, although I don't think the LPG kit will be ordered before Christmas now due to a) being skint! and b) having no time to install it.

All sounds good and I bet it's a very different car from the one you bought!  :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6183 on: 16 October 2013, 18:23:28 »
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Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 October 2013, 18:02:53
Fitted NCDC2013 and CID in the 2.6 last night  :y

Corrected my poor soldered joint on one wire this afternoon  ::) ;D

List of jobs to do on this car is getting shorter, although I don't think the LPG kit will be ordered before Christmas now due to a) being skint! and b) having no time to install it.

All sounds good and I bet it's a very different car from the one you bought!  :)

You'd cry if your saw the list of work and parts that have gone into it, but my thoughts are that, for what I paid for it plus the cost of the parts fitted, I'm still better off than buying a more expensive 'Autotrader' one as I have the benefit of knowing all the new parts and work that has been done (by people I trust) rather than trusting a sellers advert and a claim of a FSH!
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6184 on: 16 October 2013, 19:16:20 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 October 2013, 18:02:53
Fitted NCDC2013 and CID in the 2.6 last night  :y

Corrected my poor soldered joint on one wire this afternoon  ::) ;D

List of jobs to do on this car is getting shorter, although I don't think the LPG kit will be ordered before Christmas now due to a) being skint! and b) having no time to install it.
Never let a network engineeer loose with a soldering iron :P ;D (and certainly don't let a server pleb loose with one either  :-[)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6185 on: 16 October 2013, 19:17:16 »
Driven it to Sheffield and back. Apparently, it was a15 mile round trip. But my biceps are massive now.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6186 on: 16 October 2013, 19:29:18 »
Changed the front wishbone rear bushes for gm ones, didn't have have a drift big enough for the front bushes so they'll have to wait.  Done the geo on it (its great to have a hunter system available). Drives much better now with no scraping noise (bushes separated from arms).
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6187 on: 16 October 2013, 19:39:45 »
Quote from: TheBoy on 16 October 2013, 19:16:20
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 October 2013, 18:02:53
Fitted NCDC2013 and CID in the 2.6 last night  :y

Corrected my poor soldered joint on one wire this afternoon  ::) ;D

List of jobs to do on this car is getting shorter, although I don't think the LPG kit will be ordered before Christmas now due to a) being skint! and b) having no time to install it.
Never let a network engineeer loose with a soldering iron :P ;D (and certainly don't let a server pleb loose with one either  :-[)
That's very true!
Way back many moons ago soldering was part of my job.... remember back to the time when we had to repair things rather than swap them! It was a regular job ticket to replace 1488 an 1489 chips on the comms boards of Unix boxes - I ended up soldering sockets into most of them to save the hassle next time ! Anyway, I blame the torchlight I was working with!!!  ::) :D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6188 on: 16 October 2013, 19:41:23 »
And ignored the Check Oil warning on the CID.
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6189 on: 16 October 2013, 23:58:08 »
Quote from: VXL V6 on 16 October 2013, 19:39:45
That's very true!
Way back many moons ago soldering was part of my job.... remember back to the time when we had to repair things rather than swap them! It was a regular job ticket to replace 1488 an 1489 chips on the comms boards of Unix boxes - I ended up soldering sockets into most of them to save the hassle next time ! Anyway, I blame the torchlight I was working with!!!  ::) :D

Takes me back! ::) Probably still got a couple of tubes of them upstairs. ;D
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6190 on: 20 October 2013, 09:38:27 »
2.97mpg, over 64l.  I think the pump was kind to me, seeing as I pulled into petrol station on petrol....
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6191 on: 20 October 2013, 22:13:39 »
Quote from: Auto Addict on 08 October 2013, 07:05:42
Quote from: Pikey Pete on 06 October 2013, 10:22:41
Changed the oil, oil filter, air filter and fuel filter on the wheesel before my rolling road block exercise all the way to Devon next weekend ::)

What sort of 'van have you got Pete?

It's agolden oldie Barry. Elddis EX300 Hurricane :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6192 on: 20 October 2013, 22:18:17 »
Did a smidge over 900 miles last week, 540 miles towing a caravan and got 32mpg from the old wheesel which I thought was good considering we stayed on Exmoor and were driving up and down 1 in 4 hills daily :)
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6193 on: 21 October 2013, 06:50:14 »
Quote from: Pikey Pete on 20 October 2013, 22:13:39
Quote from: Auto Addict on 08 October 2013, 07:05:42
Quote from: Pikey Pete on 06 October 2013, 10:22:41
Changed the oil, oil filter, air filter and fuel filter on the wheesel before my rolling road block exercise all the way to Devon next weekend ::)

What sort of 'van have you got Pete?

It's agolden oldie Barry. Elddis EX300 Hurricane :)

Nice 'van :y
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Re: So what have you done to your car today?
« Reply #6194 on: 21 October 2013, 15:01:03 »
Scraping all the leaves and crap off it from next doors tree  >:(
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