stevie m

Welcome to the merry bunch

SKIPPY,is that right about having too have your car serviced at a garage???coz i get a m8 to do mine(and its free :16: ) Yeah if you check out the conditions of most waranties they specifically require the car to be serviced at the manufacturers recommended intervals and has to be carried out by a garage and proof or stamp or whatever you want call it. So the cost of a service an MOT, insurance and tax and waranty premiums adds up to a lot of money. I know its a risk but surely it must be a saving if you dont pay for a waranty and take the sh*t when it hits the fan. I don't take waranty out. If it was me i would rather but aside a few quid in the bank each month and then it's there for those times when the s**t comes. Preventative maintenance is the key i reckon. The amount of times things seem to go wrong then bloomin heck there is sumat else too. Waranty companies make money out of selling them,so, if we all saved money by taking them out how could they make any ? ;)

I'm keeping it for a few more weeks yet mate... To be honest i go by how much from full to orange light coming on. I once had 600 miles from the diesel coming out of the cap to orange light. That was testing it out at no more that 70-75 mph motorway milage mostly. On average with the trips i do i get about 550 to the orange light. Pushing it probably 525 ish. I think thats good and it will be loads more than what you are doing now. Mines a 115.

There will be loads of useful things on here.. If i can help give us a shout.

I have a 2001 1.9 tdi. I have 163,000 miles on it. It's a good engine, runs well, don't use much oil, economy is good, and i use mine for work and run up and down the motorway every day. It's had loads of servicing four cambelts and around

Welcome to the forum. You will find loads of helpful people here. The people that help run this are a friendly bunch oh and us lot too... Hope you get that perfect gal :rolleyes:

Phone your local gsf. They are pretty reasonable too. :rolleyes:

Try here Don't know if it is cheap im looking for more :rolleyes: Or here

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Sorry i can't type. I can't do two things at once by the looks of it.. Melling welcome to the forum... (That's what i meant to say) ^_^ I think i may have lost it !!!!! :( Whoops i'm at it again ! :lol:

Well if thats what you get in an gal then i might reconsider selling mine ! ^_^

Hell and welcome to the forum :lol:

When mine broke i never lost much i pulled the fuse to stop it and it was fine. :lol:

Welcome Rusty, I hope you get many trouble free miles in your new gal mate.

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Welcome doodles to the forum. If you search this forum you will find many posts that talk about problems with the MKIII gal. I remember seeing one post far worse than yours IIRC the person didn't get much time behind the wheel of his in the first 12 months. I also remember one person saying that his windscreen leaked from the first day he got his. I hope yours gets sorted soon and you get many happy trouble free miles. Stevie.m

Welcome, there a helpful lot here. :lol:

Hi butch, firstly welcome to this forum, we are a friendly bunch here. There have been posts on here about the leads on ebay IIRC most people say they are ok. Personally i have a different reader. It seems to find the right faults and does a decent job you can get it off the net for 43 quid that includes the delivery. ,im at work at the moment so i cant remember the website but if you want to know post a reply and i will look when i get home mate. stevie.m

Just been looking again for you on the net. Try these too. When i put details in the age box it went back further than 1998. I have to go to work now and not knowing more details of your car i couldn't go any further and get a quote. I hope you get a good one mate. Stevie.m

Looking at the age for your car this could be a problem because it is 10 years old. Companies like these do warranty on cars but they say that a car must be no more than 10 years old and list other critera to meet. There is a bit of info as to what is covered. So if you find warranty to cover yours at least you know things that could get covered in it. :lol:

If i drive at 70mph on a good run i get about 70-75 miles to a tenner. I do a lot of motorway miles tho. It would drop quite a bit to about 60-65 miles to the tenner

Perfect chazy that's another one i owe you. :D Hope that helps daz ;) Two actuators are there left and right...

Thanks for your advice i will take it on board. ;)