With that kind of oil consumption its almost half way to using as much as a two stroke:eek:

Bob

The pistons themselves rotate, and the oily bits cannot be effectively separated from the bits that go bang.

Its what's known as a "total loss" oil system, it continually drips oil into the engine, and the oil gets used up at the rate of about a pint every 1000 miles.

Think maybe all the guys at work must been filling up with my oil!

You have to watch the oil level closely as it can run at 9000 rpm

Mitzy Delica for the daily driver and a 1990 Audi 90 quattro in mint condition with leather and aircon and a coupe quattro in the same red on an H.

Her indoors flies a 206 cc and the sprog carries the grandaughter around in a Beetle tdi.

My daily driver: Honda Civic 1.5i 1991. It's just tured 20 this month, so it can buy beer on its own.

I swapped the 1.5 mono injection for MPFI from the 1.6 model. Weighs under 900 kg, snappy and economical.

Wife's/family car -- a 2009 Toyota Corolla Verso 2.2 D4D


That's, basically, the reason why I ruled out red as a colour for the roadster. Two might be a coincidence, but three would imply something.

Whats in the drive.
Foden artic unit + 3 trailers, 1 leyland daf 10 ton, 2 freelanders, 2 landrover 90 defenders, 1 landrover 130, 1 isuzu trooper commercial, 1 vauxhall brava, 1 mitzi double cab, 3 unimogs, 1mk 4x4 bedford, stalwart, deutz 6x6, 4 landrover discoveries, 1 swb shogun, 1 mazda 4x4, 4 tractors, + shit loads of plant and machines.
Her in doors, new r/r sport, merc 6 horse box, 2 cargo horse boxes.
Kids. 206 pug,corsa,citreon saxo x2,fiesta.
my toys. gtd40, el camino pick up, and please dont take the piss but i have a harley road king and yes I have got a harley jacket.:) :o :o

Bob

Unimogs, i love em. Used to frive a U5000 daily forwarding timber, then the company sold it and bought one of the new computerised u500s which was crap apart from it could be changed to right hand drive by sliding the controls across the dash. My old girl kicked out so much smoke it was afectionatly named the unismog:D Got any pics?

GTD and the Elcamino sound fun.. And the Defender, I could do without the rest!!

TT

We make the guys take them straight out as they can smoke for england left ticking over. Take a good mile to clear.

Bob:o

We have a Clio (my lads) fiat 500 called pebbles (the wifes) & my scenic thats not well :(

I like the 500 ( and I hate small cars!! ) would love a Abarth as a town tool..

TT

Say hi to Pebbles :rolleyes:

A few of the fleet....





Bertie.

More of the fleet...






Bertie.

You seem to have a few 205's..

Last time I drove one of them was in 1995.. a 1.6GTI

TT

Yeah I have a few TT, well 12 i think....

I'm a bit of a petrold head....






Bertie.

Land rover discovery 2 fully loaded ES model, all terrain terrafirma shocks, de-egr'd

Fiat Punto 1.2 --

-Fully loaded(2 adults 2 grandchildren,boot full of shopping);)

Full body kit(4 doors ,plastic bump strip down middle:)

Uprated shocks (especially when my wife drives:eek: )

Lowered springs( as soon as my wife gets in ):mad:

sporty exhaust( 'Til I renewed the silencer)

Goes like s--t off a cold shovel

58 VW Crafter MWB - work van
53 2.0 Tdci Mondeo estate - Kid transporter
Q Plated Roadster

Soon to be added Mk1 Fiesta project car

2003 Alfa 156 2.0JTS Veloce - Mine, great fun to drive.
2002 Citroen C5 2.0HDI - Wife's, slow and economical but useful for towing my roadlocostder to track days on my transporter.

Seat Leon cupra Tdi. Goes nice. At garage, at the mo so have a 207, possibly worst car I've ever driven

Heres mine at present:

2006 BMW 330d SE (hers)
2008 Renault Laguna 2.0 Dci (his) :(

I travel 100mile round trip from beautiful Shrewsbury to not so beautiful Birmingham so we swapped cars to keep the mileage down on the Beemer. Boo

Mine are:

Early Vauxhall Corsa (before Lotus ruined them)
'92 MX-5 import 'the donor' or would be if it didn't keep passing the MOT!

BV:)

Finally saw some love for rovers! Thought i'd be american with only British truck on U.K. forum! So currently in my 'drive' are:
2006 Ninja 500R 'Streetfighter' (or GPZ500 to some!)
20v AE86 'Daily Driver/Doner'!
1998 Discovery 50th Anniversary
Oh, and a rollbar and pedals for Haynes Roadster if that counts!

Ae86 is cooooool.


And the HAynes, well that's a good little build ;) I have more of mine done.

TT

Currently in my drive/garage i have

2004 BMW X5 3.0I Sport (Daily car)
1999 Toyota Varis 1.0 (Hers)
1997 VW Golf GTI MK3 2.0 8v
1992 Mazda Eunos Roadster 1.6 (Possible donor car)
1990 Honda CBR400RR Babyblade (Going to break up)

Well I'm back to driving my back-up car, a crappy Hyundai Accent, after the Alfa blew up on new years day... :rolleyes:

Dont worry about it , I dont value a daily driver one bit as its just a to b driving. Cheap as poss is the order of the day and reliable. Her in doors on the other hand wont be seen dead in anything other than a new r/r sport because she is a kin snob. Toys thats different, many man pounds on loads of shiny engine bits and the like.

bob

Wifes daily ( or was it mine ;) ) has now been replaced.

The Merc C230 was using far too much fuel given I am now doing a fair few more miles.. So it was sold and replaced with 52 plate Mondeo Ghia X TDCi estate.

Sadly the very reliable Merc seems to have been replaced with a less reliable car!! There's a few faults I was not expecting for a car with only 91K on the clock. My garage thinks the Dual Mass may need doing at some point although it could go on for a lot longer, and the Fuel pump or injectors may need doing as the car has exhibited a flashing glowplug lamp... Neither is a cheap job. But the car is nice otherwise.. Will replace with a X-Type or 525 Touring in a couple of years so just has to last that long and hold some value ;)

TT

ive got a knackered POS renault laguna......severely used and abused for the last 7 years....also

...yamaha 100 cc, rs or summat, its about 20/25 years old and all original
...CCM 600 rotax supermoto, big bore,ported flowed head, no airbox, race exhaust and uprated clutch, beringer front brake set up....
... Kawasaki GPz 7/11 streetfighter... 750 turbo frame, 1100 engine, various bandit, gixer,zx7r,aprillia, brembo bits on her... my pride and joy... been building for past 10/11 years... hope to get her on the road ( again ) this year....

none of em are actually at my house, and none are on the road at the moment, need to get the ccm sorted, need some fun and transport..lol... ive spent about £16,000 on the Kwacka, upgrading stuff over the years and bought the CCM so i had a ride, told the wife id leave it as standard ... £4000 later and i still tinker with it...... it doesnt bode well for getting a roadster done on a budget...lol...

Well we have just upgraded the daily runner from a Nissan Terrano to a Nissan Pathfinder, more thirsty than the Terrano but a lot more refind

The mondeo....

Since January.
1 Tyre due to sidewall damage.
Service
1 Droplink
disks pads (front)
Oil thermo
Water theremo
An injector
4 shox & 1 droplink.

Only covert 3.5K so far.. I think she's just at that point when a bunch of stuf will need doing before bing good for a long time.. So I need to keep her a while!!

TT

I too have a phase 2 laguna estate , i quite like it though! it hasnt had any major faults so far just needs rear bushes doing and f/n/s top mount replacing :)

Updated list,

2005 Vectra 1.9cdti SRi 150 esate
2004 Transit 2.4 350 MWB
2005 Corsa 1.2 SXI Twinport
1999 Suzuki GSX 750 - For Sale
2008 Triumph Speed Triple 1050 with lowboy exhaust

The other love of my life is Marmite. My Umm Alter II, beauty is in the eye of the beholder :D

Just to update this thread as our "fleet" has altered (and grown) since I last posted on this thread. We still have the Iveco Daily camper but we have replaced the wife's aging 2001 Focus diesel for a 55 plate focus diesel, proper bargain at just £2K. We've also added a short wheelbase 2 litre diesel 05 plate Ducato as a work van and I now own "Dierdre", a 1995 1.8IS "Gleneagles" MX5 in British Racing Green, this is to be next year's speed hillclimber and it was cheap as chips at just £700 with ten months ticket on it.

The Ducato (Duke) is very tidy for a van with 190,000 miles under its tyres and drives like a charm, the Focus drives beautifully too and with a new cam belt and air con regas its good to go. Dierdre has just had a new cambelt but is in need of a couple of tyres (watching loads on Ebay at the moment along with a few other bits n bobs) but feels quick and fun on the 200 yard driveway to my workshop.

D.

P.S. its called Dierdre 'cos its a hairdressers car innit?

My Update....

The Mondeo Killed another injector, and then 400 Miles later the DualMass failed.

The EGR also seems to be playing up and opening under cold idle which it's not supposed to do.

TT

DMF is the work of the devil and quite possibly the most ridiculous engineering solution ever. Will you fix or is it not worth it?

D.

I have a
2008 bmw 320 d in gun metal grey
2004 Citroen Picasso in red

Q plate roadster
Q plate jago
53 plate mondeo estate
Y plate corsa (SWMBO car)
58 plate crafter (work hack)

Ford Mondeo 1.8 Petrol, 03 Plate. Butterfly valves in the inlet manifold went a week after I bought it, makes a lovely rattle now since the valve clearances need redoing :D