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vat registering doesn't appeal to me like the way i am, going out tommorow about 10 AM and do a bit of work and should finish about 7 pm got a long hire today right out to Ayrshire and for £62 for it was a very happy man but it was a young lad and his mate who got his car taken of him by the police for having no insurance so they were going to pick it up and he gave me other tenner to use my phone to call people and then asked if he could SMOKE SOME WACKY BACKY and open all the windows told him no chance paid the fare no problem and that done me for the night

this is my new machine a skoda superb 1.6 tdi CR aqua blue s spec with optional full size spare wheel and this is my old car will miss it but times move on and here is the car before it found it a few month ago my old general still kicking about as a taxi

Blimey that looks like Stepto and sons yard
Personally I would have gone for the 2ltr, as I still dont think the 1.6 is capable of obtaining the high mileage that the Octy can

we will see how it gets on so far so good the car is on variable servicing phoned the garage today to get tips on how to keep it in good nick said too not go full throttle within 1st 1500 miles service at all the preset intervals next one is 18,000 use the oil specified within the logbook dont use full throttle while engine is cold (never use it anyways) and should serve you well all the 1.6's up here in octys and superbs are doing fine treat them with respect and they will go a long way so lets put it too the test

fill it up, zero the odometer trip, refill at the same pump to the brim to get an accurate MPG figure, it wont be great till its run in

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yeah the salesman said that the trip computer said i averaged 56.3 mpg yesterday so was quite happy with that but sometimes the trip can be a little bit out will do that tomorrow and see how much its getting on when i filled it up on monday night to the brim said i had 655 miles till empty but as you you say need to let the engine bed in 1st till it gets better

655 miles on 60 ltrs would be 49.63 mpg BUT i doubt you will get 655, if ive had a decent mpg and then fill up mine shows 770+ "left in tank".........i wish!

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yeah it said 50.1 mpg for thursday but today was 57.4 but done a long motorway journey so it helped and all the people were nice and got a guy who didn't buckle up said to me "you better put your seatbelt on" i told him it was on its you that shut him up so lets hope tommorow is good too

plus dont forget, we are on winter diesel (i.e. with additives) which get you lower MPG

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yeah its now at 722 miles and fuel is getting a bit better still miss my old taxi as it served me well and hope the superb goes on the same way

Did you forget to blank out the reg plate on the latest pictures of your old car? What are you doing with it now? Is it for sale and if so, How much?

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Grandad,

yes i traded it in for the superb so not mine anymore, so doesn't matter about blacking the plates out. was having trouble about wherever to keep it or sell it privately cause the dealer didn't give me as much money as i would have hoped. cause i could have just dipped into my savings for the deposit and kept the octy as a back up car or just to run about in when not working and keep some miles off the superb. but that would be another car to tax, MOT, insure, fuel up, do maintenance on, new tires, and yes i have more than enough room for two cars in my drive the wife doesn't drive so what is the point really so just decided to trade it in for the new taxi

Its odd that the new Superb is 500kg (half a tonne) lighter than the smaller Octavia ........

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It isn't. I thought that this had been cleared up on the other thread that you put this on. You were not using the same stats for both vehicles. in one you were using kerb weight which is the weight of the vehicle without passengers standing at the kerb. In the other you were using axle weight which is the maximum weight that the car can carry.

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Grandad,

BTW, avoid using 6th gear, 5th will give better mpg, 6th makes the engine work to hard, my mondeo is only doing 1800 rpm at 80mph and its too low, go faster and the wind drag cancels out any advantage from using the right rpm (2250 rpm is best in mine)

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most