TNM
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
Location: Nottingham Drives: VW Tiguan
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Jimmy are the turbos from PD130 engines hard to get hold of?
My old man blew the seals on his in 3 months and it took them 5 weeks to get a new turbo!
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jr
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Registered: 20th May 02
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ermmm, depends loads of diffrent versions, its possible by the sounds of that that they went on "factory backorder"
VW/Audi tru and keep 96% stock activley avalible, just sounds liek he was unlucky
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TNM
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A3 insurance £602 fully comp 
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stubbsy05
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
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quote:
Originally posted by James
I was considering them but they arent very quick for the amount of cash they cost.
Top of my list of possible next cars is currently an Mk4 Astra GSi
Best value for money IMO, good value for money, 0-60 in around 7 secs. Loads of extras. Look good, cheap to run.
Theres an arden blue one on AT at the mo with 30k on the clock for £7k and IMO that is a bargain and a lot of car for the money
How about a Clio 172 can be picked up for 5k for a facelift model. 0-60 in under 7 seconds, leather and all the goodies
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TNM
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clio doesnt have a turbo tho!
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Dione J
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Registered: 22nd Sep 04
Location: West Midlands Drives: Leon Cupra Turbo
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quote:
Originally posted by TNM
A3 insurance £602 fully comp
bargain, which A3 model though 
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stubbsy05
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Registered: 23rd Oct 02
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quote:
Originally posted by TNM
clio doesnt have a turbo tho!
Oops my bad
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Corsa Sport Gav
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Registered: 12th Feb 03
Location: Durham, County Durham Drives: A6 Allroad
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quote:
Originally posted by d_jay50
quote:
Originally posted by TNM
A3 insurance £602 fully comp
bargain, which A3 model though
will be the sport if its a Turbo
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StuartVRS
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Registered: 9th Feb 03
Location: Bromley Common, Greater London
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
mine (seat) has been uber reliable, stu obviously had a bad one, they arent without there problems but you cant take one ownser view as gospel
To be fair, they are mostly good solid and reliable cars. Mine was superb for nearly 2 years, but then it turned into one thing fixed, next one breaks. The ECU went haywire when James had it whilst i was on holiday and ended up with us breaking down on the eurotunnel, then breaking down on the way back on the eurotunnel. Finally got ECU done, then the car started randomly cutting out. Just became too much expense.
Some of it was my own fault. I put a really smart FMIC on it and for a while it was great. After a while we noticed it just was too big for the tiny turbo on the AGU engines so boost was down, preformance down and as a result, overfuelled badly. Id buy another one, but id be a lot more careful about how i went about modifying it as they can be expensive to fix. ECU alone cost 700 quid to do
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jr
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just to add, as far as im aware it going wrong wasnt my fault 
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Steve
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Registered: 30th Mar 02
Location: Worcestershire Drives: Defender
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quote:
Originally posted by Alex.S
quote:
Originally posted by James
I was considering them but they arent very quick for the amount of cash they cost.
Top of my list of possible next cars is currently an Mk4 Astra GSi
Best value for money IMO, good value for money, 0-60 in around 7 secs. Loads of extras. Look good, cheap to run.
Theres an arden blue one on AT at the mo with 30k on the clock for £7k and IMO that is a bargain and a lot of car for the money
How about a Clio 172 can be picked up for 5k for a facelift model. 0-60 in under 7 seconds, leather and all the goodies
to be fair, i seriously doubt the performance figures by renault for the 172, the ones i have raced lost, badly, now i fully expect to beat one but not quite by what i did, yes they were trying, and also my mate knows someone with one and he said it doesnt feel fast at all, nothing compared to mine
to add to this, i could keep up with one in my 150bhp megane coupe
[Edited on 11-08-2006 by Steve]
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TNM
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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Originally posted by d_jay50
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Originally posted by TNM
A3 insurance £602 fully comp
bargain, which A3 model though
Sorry for the very late reply!
Was the 1.8t Sport
Cheaper to insure than my MR2 
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Steve
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you got one then?
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TNM
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Registered: 5th Apr 04
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not yet. thinking about it still
got some new parts for my car yesterday as well
Will keep it until the end of the summer at least.
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abdus
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I might be getting one (A3 1.8T) soon
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