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Floyd:
You may have seen my old VTS journal, which is now complete as it's been sold  :( and this has now been replaced with an oil burner mainly to help reduce costs on the daily commute. It got to the stage with the VTS that I was driving it so sedately that I may as well be in a diesel. Although I loved that car it had to go, and it's gone to a good home. The new owner is taking it straight to Spa next week - eek! And then to Donnignton - more eek!

So, onto this car. Pictures later but for now its a bog standard, albeit with tow bar, 2.0 HDI 90. seems to be reasonably quick with all that low down grunt. I'll look into doing the EGR mod and perhaps a tuning box???

The car is very clean but it's not without faults. The throttle feels a little 'dry' making delicate positioning a pain. I'll sort that. The other issue is the voltage regulation is doolally. The last owner changed the alternator and I didn't ask why. I just assumed it was becuase it was faulty. The symptoms are a pulsed headlight effect, in fact all the lights pulse together. Sometimes it's worse than others and comes and goes!

Any ideas here? Could it be dodgy tow bar electrics...?

Floyd:
As for economy, the main reason why I bought it, initially I didn't think it was very good. You see I know how far I should go on a quarter of a tank in the VTS and this was doing similar. Oh dear. I was also driving like Mary Poppins. More oh dear. So I say to myself, just finish the tank, fill up and do the calculation.

This morning I think there is still enough to get me to work and back (60 miles) and I'll crack the 500 miles range. But when I start it the fuel light is on and it's bleeping at me. WTF! Oh well, off to Tesco's but I can only fit 39.7 litres in it no matter how hard I try and it's done 455 miles since I did the same. Blimey! I think that's over 52mpg. OK then, that's not bad and there is still 14 ltrs left in the tank.

The VTS was the other way round - the fuel guage stayed high for ages and then dropped like a stone. The HDI must stay on red forever - not the best way tbh.

Floyd:
Update for those bothered to have a look in here  ;) The voltage regulation issue was cured with the fitment of a new bulb. hurrah!!

I'm enjoying the simplicity of it all.

The Wrinkly Ninja:
I think I've encountered that voltage thing before - I seem to remember in one of the older models, you could actually control the charging rate dependant on the wattage of the bulb fitted. Mind you, that's going back a year or three. ;D

Floyd:
Makes sense in a Frenchy way!

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