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Jan 6th, 2009, 19:11 | #61 |
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The performance of the 2.5D in a phase one car is pretty much on a par with my 2.5 20v in anything other than a drag race...and while the rev-happy nature of the 20v unit is fun, the diesel will be significantly more relaxing to drive 'normally'...especially in hilly terrain.
My big gripe with the S80 2.5D I drove was that it was very agricultural for what is in petrol form an extremely refined car. Maybe that was a duff car? I keep meaning to take a ride in my friend's phase one V70 TDI to make a more direct comparison. cheers James
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With the difference in price between oil and petrol I will certainly return to a V70 T6 in a few months time... |
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Jan 10th, 2009, 21:15 | #63 | |
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Jan 11th, 2009, 01:44 | #65 |
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Tingy...I'm guessing it either involves a lot of urban driving and cold starts, or your ETM has failed in the WOT position
cheers James
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Jan 11th, 2009, 13:26 | #66 |
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Tingy's right foot is made of cast iron LOL
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Jan 12th, 2009, 11:49 | #67 | |
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80% :d
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the "poor performance complaint upgrade" with no noticable improvement I had the car tested on a rolling road before trying to push the complaint further and found to my suprise 195bhp & 423n torque, considerabley up on the OE figures? After a lot of testing we have come to the following conclusion:- 1- the tyres are to big and create too much drag 2- the car is over geared (top speed of 160mph in theory) 3- the torque is produced to far up the rev range, and has to be reved harder to make progress thus useing more fuel, notice Volvo have now copied BMW and moved to the use of sequencial turbo`s to enable them to provide low speed and wide spread of torque which is what diesel`s are all about. Now if I could get one of these latest engines installed in my V70!!! My S60 163 pulled like a train from 1200rpm and averaged 44mpg Tom. |
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i also have a 54 xc90 d5 and now its chipped at 204 bhp,its manual and in 3rd and 4th gear now flies and is much better on fuel i can get 37-40 on a run where as before got 30 on a run-must be the extra torque?- jason at more-bhp tuned it and its a different car especially when i tow me caravan i love my v70 t5 but admitally miss the economy of the diesel,but hey you only live once so i op for the adrenaline rush,even though it costs me just over a third again |
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Why they do this, I don't know, because it obviously makes them look behind compared to BMW et al.
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