Fuel additives and fuel octane rating
I was talking about jap imports, not UK cars? If you don't get a import remapped and you put 98 in and spank it, there is a very good chance of it going bang. You have no idea what kind of mapping that person has on it, usually always 100+.
I had a friend (idiot) that had a WRX pushing on close to 400bhp, he put normal unleaded in (the car was maped for 98 iirc) to pass a MOT (no cat and had to pass the eco test) . Was driving home after the mot, forgot about the fuel, had a typical AUDI TT driver up his rear, tail gating him on a bend. Spanked it, red lined it in 4th, and it went boom, even put the crank through the casing (got the pic somewhere). How you forget I don't know (well hes stupid), but it cost him 3k+ for a new engine and labour.
My mum has a 350z UK, she said drives nice but shes a womenI haven't been back to compare it to a import. And who buys a high performance car (esp Jap) not to push it to the limits? They were not made to be driven to Tesco and back at 40mph.
hi-oku 100 is common practice at most pumps iirc, yes I've been there and seen it. And how on earth do you know what the previous person had as a map, its imported? Might even of had a map for over a 100 on it. Japs love their cars and esp modding, no one keeps a standard map on a high performance jap car.
yes it is perverse. here, diesel is cheap(er) than 95/98 unleaded. the cars that tend to have a lot of miles, so a lot of road use, are diesels. to compensate itself for the lower (tax) income on fuel, the state charges a higher road tax for diesel engines.
Fuel additives and fuel octane rating
I was talking about jap imports, not UK cars? If you don't get a import remapped and you put 98 in and spank it, there is a very good chance of it going bang. You have no idea what kind of mapping that person has on it, usually always 100+.
I had a friend (idiot) that had a WRX pushing on close to 400bhp, he put normal unleaded in (the car was maped for 98 iirc) to pass a MOT (no cat and had to pass the eco test) . Was driving home after the mot, forgot about the fuel, had a typical AUDI TT driver up his rear, tail gating him on a bend. Spanked it, red lined it in 4th, and it went boom, even put the crank through the casing (got the pic somewhere). How you forget I don't know (well hes stupid), but it cost him 3k+ for a new engine and labour.
My mum has a 350z UK, she said drives nice but shes a women
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That's the hatchback. The 123d comes as hatchback or coupé.
The coupé just looks like a slightly smaller 3 series. The hatchback has a more unique look, which takes a bit of getting used to.
Example:
Thus for example I would pick the Touring version of the 3-series any day of the week over the coupe/sedan version . And the hatchback just looks more practical (personally I think it looks awesome as well)
Means the engine goes along the length of the car to allow the transmission to power the rear wheels:
This means the front of the car has to be quite long otherwise the driver would be sitting on the engine
The alternative is transverse:
Which allows a much shorter nose
The 1 series hatchback is ugly IMO, I do like the coupe although when I was car hunting it was too new so I got an E46 3-series coupe instead.
bit of national pride there?
Volvo was first taken over by Ford and is now owned by a chinese company (looks like Saab will go to a chinese firm too)
