asif ive bought the wrong car

[jamie128]

i wanted 55mpg offered from the seat leon fr CR tdi 170bhp but ive bought an 07 reg fr leon with 170bhp tdi but it doesent seem to be common rAil? and its quoted mpg is 47 :/

[jamie128]

useyourdellusion said:

It's called 'real world' mpg. HTH.

is the engine choice ive got not common rail? its an 07 i thought it would be

[jamie128]

Fox- said:

You wanted a commonrail Leon. You bought an older PD Leon.

HTH.

im absolutely devasted

what a dumbarse i am ahhh

[jamie128]

useyourdellusion said:

Quoted mpg doesn't mean a bean. Good luck getting 42mpg from your 55mpg car and 37mpg from your 47mpg car during mixed use.

lol and i thought this was going to be cheap to run meh

[jamie128]

Fox- said:

You wanted a commonrail Leon. You bought an older PD Leon.

HTH.

i dont think its a pd, its the 170bhp model

[jamie128]

hobbiniho said:

it will be cheap to run compared to the petrol version, the common rail only came in in 2009

oh well im relieved then because i could only afford An 07 haha, it was 10000 with 30000 on the clock

[jamie128]

AndrewW-G said:

IIRC the older PD motors can take a Veg oil / Diesel mix (my old 53 plate golf did for 90k) so you can make a little saving by running 1/3 veg oil and upto 50% in the summer (currently £0.94 a litre from Costco)

oh that sounds good, are these engines still as reliable as the common rail version?

[jamie128]

pinchmeimdreamin said:

jamie128 said:

hobbiniho said:

it will be cheap to run compared to the petrol version, the common rail only came in in 2009

oh well im relieved then because i could only afford An 07 haha, it was 10000 with 30000 on the clock

an extra 4 grand for the same engine? lol

Or you could have had an 08 with only 14k

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/2010...

[jamie128]

R60EST said:

Who's Asif ?

ok

[jamie128]

Dab of oppo said:

OP I've got to ask, did you do any research on these vehicles before signing on the line or did you just buy a car, hope all would be ok and only now ask the questions most people do before buying!!?

i asked lots of questions, are these unreliAble engines like?

[jamie128]

Dab of oppo said:

OP I've got to ask, did you do any research on these vehicles before signing on the line or did you just buy a car, hope all would be ok and only now ask the questions most people do before buying!!?

i asked lots of questions, are these unreliAble engines like?

[jamie128]

Dab of oppo said:

OP I've got to ask, did you do any research on these vehicles before signing on the line or did you just buy a car, hope all would be ok and only now ask the questions most people do before buying!!?

i asked lots of questions, are these unreliAble engines like?

[jamie128]

Dab of oppo said:

OP I've got to ask, did you do any research on these vehicles before signing on the line or did you just buy a car, hope all would be ok and only now ask the questions most people do before buying!!?

i asked lots of questions, are these unreliAble engines like?

[jamie128]

Chris_w666 said:

You decided you needed a car with a high horse power figure, that was a diesel. You spent your full budget after ignoring advice in your other threads.

You posted moaning the car wheelspins when you accelerate.

You now are moaning that the engine is somehow wrong

You might be a bit dim.

HTH.

i dont mean the engine is wrong, i thought it was CR as it has the same bhp and litre engine

im now wondering if theres any difference in reliability or anything between the 2

[jamie128]

Dab of oppo said:

I won't waste time much more time on this mouth breather then!
PD engines are in quite a few cars and just like many modern engines it will be reliable if correctly maintained.
If your car is a 1.9 it's maximum output unless mapped would be 150bhp not 170bhp as you claim, for this output your car would need to have the later 2.0 engine.

its the later 2 litre engine

[jamie128]

Chris_w666 said:

Three questions.

Are you happy with the car?

Do people really buy cars based on power output and not find out what is actualy under the bonnet or how the car drives?

Who the fk is asif?

i bought it because i heard the volkswagen tdis were reliable and on autotrader all seem to have high mileage
yes im happy with it just a bit worried about the reliAbility

[jamie128]

Chris_w666 said:

jamie128 said:

i bought it because i heard the volkswagen tdis were reliable and on autotrader all seem to have high mileage

yes im happy with it just a bit worried about the reliAbility

Wow, just wow.

what do you mean wow?

[jamie128]

yeh im keeping it serviced and im not going to rev the balls of it, just use power every now and then not loads

after my last tdci focus repairs i want a reliAble diesel

[jamie128]

va1o said:

jamie128 said:

im now wondering if theres any difference in reliability or anything between the 2

Both suffer the same DPF problems. CR is smoother/ quieter, PD noisy and rough.

ok i guess i will get used to it lol, when will i bloomin learn, 170bhp isent a lot for most people but i enjoyed the test drive so didnt think much about the noise etc

[jamie128]

thinfourth2 said:

Am i right in saying to save money you bought an expensive unreliable car that uses way too much fuel and costs a fortune to insure.

At least its a diesel

its 47mpg quoted which is a lot more than its petrol counterpart with less performance

its unreliable? it seems more reliable than unreliable i cant find many horror stories on google

its cheaper to insure for me than a quickish petrol that returns less mpg

also i got it for 800 pound less than book price