[techtalk] Re: OT: What's everyone driving?
- From: Andrew Davidson <andrew@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: techtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:24:41 +0000
At 17:14 20/03/2004, you wrote:
>Hello Andrew,
>
>Snap, or nearly snap - '98 Astra 1800 CD, 80000 miles. I used to like
>it a lot but its giving me a lot of grief. Rear brakes are squeaking,
>engine wont idle when slowing down & stopping, burns a lot of oil. Not
>impressed!
I know what that is. :) There's oil in the intake manifold. Those 1.8
engines don't have an oil trap in the rocker cover breather, so they can
send oil up the pipe into the intake. It the bungs up the injectors. It's
an easy fix to remove the injector rack, clean it out, and then fit a
replacement breather pipe which includes an oil trap.
The back brakes, if discs (which they should be, being a 16v and CD spec)
are easily fixed with different calipers. It's a problem with some 16v and
the bigger diesels (particularly the 2.0DTi SXi range).
My 1.6 8v likes to sip the semi-synthetic too - about 0.5 litres per 1000
miles. Considering I drive it like I stole it, I'm not too worried. It
blows blue smoke above 6000rpm or when cornering hard.
>My next motor could be a new VW Golf, anyone know what they are like
>or seen/read any reports on them?
There's a review on 4car.co.uk if I remember correctly.
Andrew
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