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25 minutes ago, datlow said:

Or $7 for 2 500g bags from pak n save.....

 

25kg for $12-$13 at any farm supply outfit...

Waikato Uni had their Geology? department Hiace vans running on it - Again, throwing in a small quantity of dead dino juice every couple of weeks for good measure.

1 hour ago, cletus said:

I have pondered the use of a tiny carb for part throttle cruising (say up to 1/3 throttle) then a bigger 4barrel for going hard 4 what it is 

My boss has a 428 ford with triple 2 barrels (a 350 in the middle and 2 500s) and it is better on fuel than you would expect 

 

I wonder if you could do a similar thing? And would it be of any benefit?

a manifold that has 4 small linked pipes to a small throttle body ( like a bigger idle control valve?) for economy purposes . Then open the big bois for max doooort 

The old Audi 5-pots did similar, well as best as they could given they were using K-jet to fire the juice in...

Tiny butterfly covered a surprising amount of pedal travel, then pulled the big one open with more pedal.

Oh absolutely agreed! Interesting that there is some very specific wording in there relating to the damage being inflicted on our roads, eg: Heavy transport vehicles. 

So make the big boys pay more and be done with it.

Pretty tight now, it's just the extra shagging around with the RUC admin that created headaches for us. 

Funnily enough, RUC changes and submissions are on the cards... RUC has the potential to be coming to all motor vehicles in the future, with not a lot of talk about reducing the excise tax on juice either. In fact, more discussion about using the revenue created to fund non-road things.

https://www.transport.govt.nz/consultations/road-user-charges-consultation/

37 minutes ago, Sunbeam said:

Wow. Didn’t know manual hybrids existed. Still, spendy/small market?

The Honda CR-Z is common enough too, a bit like a 2nd gen CRX with middle aged spread. Hybrid and manual...

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/honda/cr-z/listing/3481476335

I considered one briefly, but then my Golf appeared and that was the end of that.

Aaaaand FWIW, I pinched the Niro for my last night shift this week as my radar sensor for the cruise control on the golf threw a shitfit on my first night and managed a 3.7L/100 average on the 105km round trip - That's 0.1 better than the EX and SX trims are rated and 0.7 better than ours is rated at.

6 hours ago, Willdat? said:

Kind of thread relevant, I'm helping a mate hyper mile a low SOH Nissan Leaf today to help get it from Blenheim to Nelson... Tyres to 50psi...drafting etc on the cards.

Now that's an entertaining challenge!

Generator in the boot, lead taped to the door and plugged into the front?

Wife's Niro went in for the 15k service last week - Comment in the general notes section on the invoice "Tires set to 40psi on handover, reset to 36psi". Get fucked! 40 cold is what let's you get to, and exceed the rated fuel consumption, without feeling like you're punting a whale carcass around corners.

You'll see the wipers twitch like that on shutdown/ignition cycle - It's to do with stopping them sticking when it's freezing outside. Also, unsure on a Mk5, but if the wipers are in the fully parked position, you can't lift them up to the service position to change the blades.

Most of that is standard equipment, but there can be a lot of mix and match.  A good session with VCDS/OBDeleven can enable of lot of stuff as long as the controllers and modules are of the same p/n as the car that the long coding has been copied from.

My car, and the wagon before that, didn't have "teardrop wipe" enabled - if you give the windscreen a squirt, the normal wiping happens, then they park and about 10-20 seconds later, a single wipe occurs to get the usual dribbles off. No matter how many times I entered the coding for it, it wasn't happening - Controller module was a slightly earlier suffix.

I'd have preferred leather, but wasn't willing to compromise on xenons with the amount of night driving I do - There just aren't enough NZ new ones running around with xenons + leather. In saying that, one did pop up on TM while I was hunting for the right one - Rough as fuck and had done a squillion km with hopes and dreams being the biggest maintenance consumable.

Just a stock '14 GTI ex-Japan. Cost slightly more than the average on TM at the time, but came with a 5 year warranty and 3 years free servicing.  Handed over $95 to have the stereo changed to NZ/Aus region to pick up our frequencies.

2 minutes ago, tortron said:

Oh no way, golf was using a full dipstick between services on that, I assumed just cos real thin and burns up 

It's worse on diesels with a DPF as it creates a vicious circle: Oil flashes off and some gets burnt -> DPF starts to load up -> DPF pressure differential calls for a regen -> Regen alters injector timing and quantity to raise EGTs to burn off soot loading -> Higher EGTs create overall higher engine temps and increase oil temp and rate of oil flashing off...  Added to that, the povo-spec petrol engines of that era (Anything less than the 2.0 turbo) can be absolute dogs with oil consumption.

7 minutes ago, jessemk2 said:

Hp fuel pump follow was done at last service 9000ks ago,was thinking its should be ok till next service.

Not sure what oil was used previous service 9k ago but was reading just above low when I checked when first went over car,took about 650ml to get to fill

So will keep a eye on it

1L between the bottom and top markings on the stick - My Mk7 is a gnat's cock under the full mark after 5000km, so it's safe to assume it's not got any Castrol in there.

50-60,000km for the pump should be fine assuming it's not a Chinesium knock-off

Also, has the HP fuel pump been done yet? The cam follower is a consumable, so for the sake of a little extra work every so often, it's worth changing.

Keep an eye on the oil level with that Castrol - It's good when it's in liquid form, but it tends to flash off as vapour a bit easier than the Penrite or Liquimoly equivalent. My wagon had a bit of an appetite for oil on Castrol and after asking a few questions on an Oz based forum, others had found the same. Did a service each with LM and Penrite and the level was much more stable.

OBDeleven - it's a phone based app.  If you've got your phone, you're able to scan/diagnose/change shit.

Yeah for full functionality, Rosstec is the only way.  OBDeleven is actually legit too with many functions already mapped out - Select the change from the drop down list, select and DO IT.

44 minutes ago, datlow said:

Ring council and Karen them into a free grooming 

It's been well swept during the day, probably by every cunt flying down the hill and around the bend into the zone while ignoring the signs...

Thanks lads, I have kero and I'll grab a can of the CRC stuff while I'm out on Friday.

What does the OS hive-mind recommend for removing a shitload of tar from alloys/lower door sections that won't root the paint?  Road works crew went overboard on a couple of km yesterday, laying down a good 75mm of extra chip above the tarred surface which has left me with a few extra kg of wheel weights and the black shitty mess everywhere.

Impressive that the bottle opener is still present!  They were frequently pinched while cars were on the dealer's yards, much like the umbrellas tucked into the rear doors on Mk2 Superbs.

1 hour ago, sidewaysickness said:

Do you know much about mk2 Kjet injection?? I need to find someone that knows all about that fuckery

Is it actually K-jet, or Digifant?

There's not much to a K-jet system, and even less that's able to be fucked around with by stray fingers.

That pedal offset is similar to the S100/120L Skodas and Alfa 33s. In the porker, they'll keep you nice and relaxed when you provoke a bit of slip in one direction, and a bit sweaty/feeling like a hero when it goes the opposite way... You do get used to it soon enough, much like the gearchange - It all comes down to muscle memory and after a short while you don't notice it, while anyone else that snags a trip in the hot-seat moans and struggles with the travel/slop/notchiness.

Yeah, you can ramp the clamping pressure up to some incredible numbers with uprated clutch packs, as well as altering the shift points.