The Polo 'Supershed' 6n 1.9d!

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Well she didnt disgrace herself..

Small bit of welding to the boot floor and a new numberplate is all that is needed.

Should be with a full mot come Saturday

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Apply a tickle with the mig stick:



And a shiny new numberplate:



Receive new MOT:




Now comes the question- Cambelt roulette or not?

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6n polo 1.9d vs Clio 172..a side by side review

https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/02/08/side-...

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This is now going the way of the first McCartney wife..

Started her off on a diet of 5L of veg to 40 or so of crushed dinosaur- what with her having the Lucas Prince of Darkness (TM) pump, I'm taking it easy!

Learning from my experiences with the AAZ engined golf, I put £20 in prior to putting the Veg in. then topped off the tank afterwards.

Off out to see the parents the now- if you hear swearing you'll know its gone well

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Mission successful-32 miles completed without mishap.

We'll see how she goes with a cold start tomorrow

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This is still on its first 10% veg tank and performing faultlessly..

Cannae say fairer than that

Have been offered the opportunity to buy back an old car-so currently have the polo up for sale.

If the deal doesnt come off I'll just keep on dubbin;)

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Parabola said:

I absolutely loved my 1.9d! Was P reg too.

Was driving my MGB Manchester to Leeds & back everyday when someone gave me the Polo.

Ran it on veg oil (About 80% Veg Oil to 20% diesel. Seemed to run much smoother on veg oil!
That was back when veg oil was 45p a litre from Costco!

Def put a new fuel filter in once you've run on veg oil for a bit.
The veg oil seemed to clean all sort of gunk out.

I was so happy to have a car with working heaters and Radio 4. MGB had neither!
Sometimes it's easy to forget how great it is to have the simple things.

Edited by Parabola on Thursday 5th March 18:52

It had a new filter about 1k miles ago-once the veg gets ramped up i'll look to do it again

Its about as simple as it gets..but a turbo would be nice..

Am also tempted by a b gt as a summer smoker but have more than enough on me plate at the moment.
M

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This has now decided to thank me by rotting through the backbox..

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Backbox delete completed for a total of £3!

Being a diseasal, its quiet even without one.

We're now heading towards the 2nd tank with VEG-aiming for 20%(likely made up of 9l veg with 1l petrol for dilution). The warmer weather should allow that to be ran no issue.

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LeoZwalf said:

That's got at least another 100,000 in it!
Keep it going...

You're keeeeeen!

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Parabola said:

I used to keep a 1l bottle of veg oil in the boot's cubbyhole.
Well handy if you ever run out of diesel!

This being fitted with the Lucas prince of darkness(tm) pump means i'm very wary of running it on svo.

That, and the last time i changed the filter i had to tow start it means bunging in a litre of veg would be interesting..

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Thjs has just run 48mpg doing cold start 1.5mile runs to the station..

468 miles for 43 odd litres is pretty damn good!

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Got up the gumption to take this thing out for a proper drive today- 226 miles on some of the most fun roads in Scotland- so much more fun than driving on the motorway!

Needless to say it ran faultlessly, and did the full run on less than 1/2 a tank. Passed a fair few of the "40 mph everywhere" brigade too

https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/04/19/long-...

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AyBee said:

Had one of these as my first car, did the same mpg everywhere it went, no matter how I drove it

This one seems to do anywhere between 40-53mpg..

If I'm careful round town it does 48.

I think it was in its natural speed zone yesterday- about 60mph seems to be magic

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The last tank came in at over 51mpg, and she's just been fuelled up with a 50/50 mix of vegand derv.the veg was 79p/l so sub 99p a litre average

That is 8.7p per mile!

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We're about 160 miles into the 50/50 tank, and the car is running well- even seems ok starting in the morning!

Today the Polo did a remarkable impersonation of a battery charger to help revive a mate's car..
https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/05/10/defib...

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Still on the same tank of 50%veg!

Had a fair run at the less than pristine bodywork on her today-made a good bit of progress, and got some stuff done on other fleet members too!


Fu'Gutty Full-on Fleet Fixery leads to Fantastic Feeling of achievement!
https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/fanta...

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This Little cracker has now left the fleet after 4000 miles at an average of 47.93 mpg

Super cheap servicing and no ill effects of running on a 50% veg mix- I'd have another!

You can read of it's departure here:
https://fuguttycars.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/flyin...

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No one sad to see this little champ tootle off?

I reckon my octavia has big boots to fill!