Neo
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Originally posted by Eckmcmann
You'd scrap the car?  Any VAG won't be cheap tbh. 306 TDi would be a good bet 
tbf i can't see anyone buying it.
In a perfect world i'd get a cheap diesel and SORN the corsa, keep it as a project and get it xe'd, then after i have a year or 2's no claims get insured and get rid of the diesel.
However with lack of drive space i can't keep the corsa, unless i tidy the garage..which i want to do even less !
A guy at work has mentioned changing all consumables in the engine (spark plugs, leads, lambda etc) wondered if it'd be worth replacing any of it?
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TheCam
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Originally posted by Neo
so an audi A3 would be awesome...
any 1.9 Vag tdi..
an a3 would be awesome but expensive to insure i would of thought, 1.9 vag tdi engined car will be my next car as well
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pow
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Registered: 11th Sep 06
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Oi you barsteward, Ive said Ill buy it 
As for the MPG, 30 in 4th is not fuel economy at all, evarrr.
I used to get 400 miles to £47 in the Corsa. I think your trying wayyyy too hard, I never used to try in the Corsa.
A 306 diesel is not the way forward... at all, they do NOT do 50-5mpg. I really think that a 1.4 conversion is the way forward for you mate.
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pow
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Those 1.9TDi's arent all that either, had one.
Fuck me they pull like a train on speed, but fuel economy? Not really unless you sit on the motorway at 85< all day long. The 6 speed box just saps MPG out of it as well.
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deano87
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Originally posted by pow
The 6 speed box just saps MPG out of it as well.
I thought the idea was to increase MPG, because engine revs aren't so high and what not.
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pow
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The box doesnt just add an extra gear, it makes all the gears shorter to aid acceloration.
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Ash_EP3
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http://www.petrolprices.com/price-of-petrol.html
It's crazy how much we are robbed
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Daimo B
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Something wrong there. Got that milage easily in my XE Corsa, and that drank fuel. Had 425 miles from my 1.4 16v engine, so yours is definatly ill.
Its all about smooth throttle, smooth gear changes, allowing the car to be in gear and slow its self down.
All the time your in gear and are just rolling, your not using any fuel (like coming up to roundabout, junctions etc).
Smooth throttle control is where the fuel savings at.
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Neo
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I think i should buy a motorbike !
fk the car off all together !
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Daimo B
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I would agree 100%  But then i ride bikes every day.
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CR7
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My 172 returns 45mpg+ on runs
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AlunJ
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u cud try a cheap 1.5td corsa b - i get 300miles out of a tank and thats down to the line before the red so potentially more on a full tank - and thats revving the hell out of it. should return 52mpg when not going for it.
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JM_16v
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i get 30mpg
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Fro
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35mpg on tank the other week.
28mpg on my last one with alot of death.
2.0 xe.
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JM_16v
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 neo
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T21SVJ
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if fiance is the option then corsa c cdti 1.3 35quid for tax plenty off mpg and the price has just gone down on them because of the new corsa coming out.
vag desials are nice but my god there dear to insure even the 100bhp one.
only vag which with proply insure will be the sdi polo but youll be going nowere quick.
as for the corsa i like it when i saw it looks mint for it ages ever thought of a 1.6 gsi engine out of a nova its a simple converson relible engine and a simple wiring loom.
[Edited on 09-11-2007 by t8ssjsport]
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T21SVJ
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i get about 80-90 miles out my 1.4 corsa but if im starting and stoping it goes down rapidly.
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Corsa_Joel
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quote:
Originally posted by t8ssjsport
i get about 80-90 miles out my 1.4 corsa but if im starting and stoping it goes down rapidly.
On a full tank?? 
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T21SVJ
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i ment out of a tenner  get about 350-370miles out of a full tank
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Corsa_Joel
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Was gonna say
Is there anything me or neo can do then to increase my fuel consumption?
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pow
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Neo and I are gunna service his car and check the lambda readings on a mates ODB'd laptop
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corsa_nation
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My 1.4 Sport gets about 320 to a tank
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T21SVJ
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quote:
Originally posted by Corsa_Joel
Was gonna say
Is there anything me or neo can do then to increase my fuel consumption?
my mate had a 1.2 8v which had done 120thousand miles and still going today i remember him doing about 50-70miles on a fiver and he ragged it everywere.
try doing a service oil,plugs, air filter,
have you got any exhaust or after market airfilter on?
do you turn the car of and back on again often?
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cammack
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i get 260 miles a tank, and that with the airflow sorted, 421 mani and stright through. not so bad is it????
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dannymccann
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35MPG on a 1.8Si Escort
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