I'm no longer Muddy or Disco

[Muddydisco]

Thanks to George Osbourne and a Aging Landrover I am no longer a Muddydisco, more a ShinyAudi.
Had 3 major things break on the disco with 2 months and only doing 30mpg top end of the scale, it's time to change.

I shall still have the play toys but as a main car needed something more reliable and cheaper to run.

 

[graysalchemy]

Nice car, always wanted an audi and a landrover for that matter, have to make do with the Kangoo Van.

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Nice car MD, love AUDI's. :thumb:

 

[BigYin]

My Surf is certainly giving me pause for thought... a year ago diesel was £1.11 a litre, now its anywhere between £1.35 - £1.41 a litre, and with an average of 20mpg its getting very painful to run....

 

[markp]

Nice one Nick.
I have an A3.......and I love it :)
What engine is in there? Mine is the 1.6TDI, great for fuel ecconomy and ultra low emmisions so it is better for me tax wise.
Only £35 per year road fund licence too :)

 

[mr_spin]

our family wagon is a 1.9tdi A4 Avant and it has served us very well for 4 years now.. I'm an Audi fan too - previously had 3 S3's, an S4, an RS4 but my fun car is now an imported Honda from Japan.

One thing I would recommend is if you are doing your own maintenance on the A4, invest in a vag-com cable.

 

[Muddydisco]

it is the 1.9 tdi Sport Avant. I shall be doing all my own maintainance, so far I have remapped it from 130bhp to 170bhp and well over 400nm of torque. It's going like stink also found new max speed no longer 127 now 145, and still runs at 50 mpg on motorway cruising. Lifes great when you know a VAG specialist and a guy with a rolling road :) all for a couple of drinks.

 

[Cussword]

Of course, you have informed the :twisted: insurance company :twisted: ,


:whistle:

 

[Muddydisco]

Of course with Adrian Flux. Everything on the Yellow racer is modified filled in 2 A4 pages listing all the details. Still only £200 for a 4ltr V8 Hybrid Landrover :thumb:

 

[BigYin]

Audi top tip - after it happened to a friend of mine, and was told its a common Audi fault....

Be careful to maintain and regularly oil the bonnet release catch. If it gets too stiff it doesn't hold properly, as my mate found out on the motorway...it flew up and smashed his windscreen :shock:

Despite a bowel loosening moment when he was still travelling at 70 mph blind, he managed to pull in without further incident, but the car is pretty much a write-off as a new windscreen won't fit without the frame being repaired...

 

[markp]

Runs off hastily with can of 3 in 1 oil in hand.

 

[Muddydisco]

Strangley enough I have the opposite problem I can't get it open whilst stationary :lol: New release handle and remove, clean and re lube the mechanism.
Thanks for the warning

 

[mr_spin]

it is the 1.9 tdi Sport Avant. I shall be doing all my own maintainance, so far I have remapped it from 130bhp to 170bhp and well over 400nm of torque. It's going like stink also found new max speed no longer 127 now 145, and still runs at 50 mpg on motorway cruising. Lifes great when you know a VAG specialist and a guy with a rolling road :) all for a couple of drinks.

:) very good LOL - mines remapped too.. My Mrs doesn't know it though!

 

[31bb3]

So i take it lucy is still poorly then Nick nice car that

 

[evanvine]

I am no longer a Muddydisco, more a ShinyAudi.

Soon to be a Muddyaudi. :lol:
Will you be changing your user name? :whistle:

 

[doyley]

I have a Landrover 110 which does only 22 mpg and I keep thinking it is time to let it go. I have had it for 20 years, got it originally to go camping with the SWMBO and the kids but now kids are grown up and SWMBO has had enough of camping. Trouble is it has become almost a part of the family. I will see how things are at the next MOT.

 

[Muddydisco]

I had the same choice, Have had a landrover as a main car since I was 18 now knocking on 32 and Had to leave the Great British behind and do something about the fuel costs. To make up for it. the V8 Play toy will counter my carbon emmisions. and the Big discovery offroader I'm still building will make a chelsea taxi look like a mini.