Black liquid from exhaust?

[Neo]

Just put some rubbish into mr fusion... it`ll be fine.

 

[great_kahn]

You need to take your car on a big run, get the exhaust up to full temperature, blow that **** out. Sounds like you do mostly short trips.

 

[CJRamze]

You need to take your car on a big run, get the exhaust up to full temperature, blow that **** out. Sounds like you do mostly short trips.

Yep, I'd hazard a guess at that.
I do weekly work runs of 2 miles or so but every weekend I take the car out for a hard drive up brecon etc and clears the exhaust right out!

 

[rf860]

Yep, I'd hazard a guess at that.
I do weekly work runs of 2 miles or so but every weekend I take the car out for a hard drive up brecon etc and clears the exhaust right out!

You need to take your car on a big run, get the exhaust up to full temperature, blow that **** out. Sounds like you do mostly short trips.

I do about 50 miles every weekday. Maybe becuase i was trying to eco-drive and the exhuast is not getting cleared properly lol!

 

[great_kahn]

I do about 50 miles every weekday. Maybe becuase i was trying to eco-drive and the exhuast is not getting cleared properly lol!

Red line the bitch... once engine is warm of course

 

[rf860]

Red line the bitch... once engine is warm of course

I do like to hear the engine scream once in a while (even if it is just a 1.4 lol) FUN!!!

 

[great_kahn]

I do like to hear the engine scream once in a while (even if it is just a 1.4 lol) FUN!!!

50 miles a day though, what reason do you have for not owning an FR130?

 

[rf860]

50 miles a day though, what reason do you have for not owning an FR130?

I earn buttons and i am only 18 so insurance is an issue! Would love one tho!

 

[mick-fr]

Give it a few years and you should be able to get one mate! I'm 20 for example..
I had a little 1.2 petrol Corsa and now I've got an FR TDi.. Best move I ever made!

 

[great_kahn]

I earn buttons and i am only 18 so insurance is an issue! Would love one tho!

Just tell yourself you cant afford not to have one

 

[rf860]

Hopefully in a few years i will be qualified and earning good money so will prob get something like golf gt or leon fr

 

[FR dagley]

Where do you fill up with fuel as i found the water content to be high on tesco petrol compared with others (i know theres BS standards but still i find tesco petrol to be utter crap and diesel.) . It happened with my corsa before my FR but not a great amount of water still you only need to worry unless you find oil coming out instead.

 

[Nath.]

Where do you fill up with fuel as i found the water content to be high on tesco petrol compared with others (i know theres BS standards but still i find tesco petrol to be utter crap and diesel.) . It happened with my corsa before my FR but not a great amount of water still you only need to worry unless you find oil coming out instead.

Water content of the fuel?????????????????

 

[rf860]

Last time i filled up i went to tesco and used the so-called high octane one to see if i would get better mpg

 

[Leigh15]

Last time i filled up i went to tesco and used the so-called high octane one to see if i would get better mpg

It won't make the blindest bit of difference on a 1.4 - the ECU isn't set up to recognise the difference.

Even on the petrol FR that's set up to take advantage of higher octane fuels it's only worth 2-3 bhp at best

 

[great_kahn]

Supermarket fuel is crap, people say its from the same refinery... i dont care, its shite. Stick with BP, Jet, Shell.

My old Rover 25 never ran the same on supermarket fuel, wasnt a huge difference, but then your used to a car, you can tell when something isnt right.

 

[rf860]

Thought that there has been no difference in mpg!

 

[Aimez]

Oh dear the fuel debate thread is elsewhere!

 

[RUM4MO]

Supermarket fuel is crap, people say its from the same refinery... i dont care, its shite. Stick with BP, Jet, Shell.

My old Rover 25 never ran the same on supermarket fuel, wasnt a huge difference, but then your used to a car, you can tell when something isnt right.

Its true at most of the fuel sold comes from "local" refinaries - ie all the big brands share output to make distrubution a bit easier and remember its only the "raw" spirit that carries the BS acredidation and the octane/cetane rating - its just the individual brand "goodies" that get added at the tanker filling point, but as far as I know, all Tesco fuel comes in by sea ready for sale - from Holland, and so the petrol probably gets loaded up with more octane boosting stuff whereas UK refinaries tend to refine the spirit further up the stack (as they say) to achieve the higher octane ratings - what differance that makes I don't know although the product used to boost the octane level is extremely "cancer inducing" stuff its said (could be benzine). As for DERV - I don't know what the UK/Europe differances are if any.

Its adding the individual brand "goodies" to the raw spirit that makes the different brands "better" or "worse" - and it seems that that is one secret that is kept from all the supermarkets! I just can't work out why the individual supermarket chains can't each tie themselves to one fuel brand and sell it as that brand but give reductions with loyality cards and proof of food purchases - ie to their customers. And another thing, why can't UK copy a few parts of Europe and fix the base fuel price nation wide - which would still allow for loyality cards etc to be used at supermarkets. I am lucky as I live and drive around one of the many "cheap fuel" zones of UK (relatively speaking) - but quite a few areas really do get hammered - both urban and suburban - we are meant to be one nation are we not?