Once you go for the D you never turn back????Went through my first tank of diesel last night with 90km left to spare. Wanted to fill up at 50km range but was on my way home from Franschhoek and didn't want to chance it.
Considering this was 90% traffic driving and 10% open highway driving, I am super happy with these numbers.
The diesel life is good!
Once you decat or downpipe this will drop by 0.2L/100kmWent through my first tank of diesel last night with 90km left to spare. Wanted to fill up at 50km range but was on my way home from Franschhoek and didn't want to chance it.
Considering this was 90% traffic driving and 10% open highway driving, I am super happy with these numbers.
The diesel life is good!
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Started noticing a squeak on cold start, that would continue until the car was warm-ish and then would disappear. Opened the bonnet and listed around the belt tensioner area and it sounded like the tensioner was on its way out.
Old tensioner out:
INA tensioner from Goldwagen (OE, and checked that wasn't made in China
No stock of Continental belts in SA. No experience with Dayco. Will see how it goes, if it gives me issues I'll replace with an OEM belt.
Checked the vibration damper while I was down there, still looks great.
Put it all back together, no noises. Must've been the tensioner itself, as the pulleys were still good. 10 minute job to do, must be the easiest bit of maintenance I've ever done on a car!
Car booked in at ZF next week for the gearbox service. Looking forward to it!
Fuel consumption seems to be sticking around the 6.2 - 6.4L/100km mark in traffic driving. Stoked.
Started noticing a squeak on cold start, that would continue until the car was warm-ish and then would disappear. Opened the bonnet and listed around the belt tensioner area and it sounded like the tensioner was on its way out.
Old tensioner out:
INA tensioner from Goldwagen (OE, and checked that wasn't made in China
No stock of Continental belts in SA. No experience with Dayco. Will see how it goes, if it gives me issues I'll replace with an OEM belt.
Checked the vibration damper while I was down there, still looks great.
Put it all back together, no noises. Must've been the tensioner itself, as the pulleys were still good. 10 minute job to do, must be the easiest bit of maintenance I've ever done on a car!
Car booked in at ZF next week for the gearbox service. Looking forward to it!
Fuel consumption seems to be sticking around the 6.2 - 6.4L/100km mark in traffic driving. Stoked.
Mine visited ZF on Friday for diagnostics and based on the results, potentially what we believe to be its first gearbox service, on 186000km. All parameters were in range, hence they advised it safe to proceed. I'm sure you won't notice as big a difference due to the lower mileage, but that was R5600 well spent! It's so much smoother and more responsive.
Also, your fuel consumption makes me envious. I'm currently on 7.6, and that includes a fair bit of highway driving. Admittedly, due to the gearbox's shifting behaviour, it was suggested to me to drive it a bit more vigorously, in order for the gearbox to relearn and possibly improve the adaptions.
Finally, this post does make me wonder if I should take a closer look at the pulleys and tensioners in my car. The car was thoroughly inspected, but I feel like there are one or two engine bay noises that shouldn't be there
The windshield trim was pretty tired, car is still on its original windscreen. So thought I'd give it a bash.
Getting the old one out and cleaned up took about an hour, better to just take your time with it.
Got the new trim, pretty cheap with a nice discount.
Done. Not a very fun job and not something I want to do again any time soon. But at least it won't bug me anymore.
Consumption update: hovering around the 6.0/6.1L/100km in town only driving. Doing a long distance trip this weekend so will see how it really does on the open road.
Thank you, I'll give them a call, price sounds very reasonable
Any plans for software to bypass the EGR and swirl flap? The difference will be chalk and cheese.
