For the last week I’ve been driving dad’s Hyundai i30 turbo diesel around, and while it’s pretty boring to drive, it’s a nice car. The car feels solid and well constructed all round, no flappy plastic-ey bits. Performance is as can be expected from a diesel, boring, but it’s very fuel efficient, and on a [...]
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Hyundai i30
Posted: 29th June 2010 by Striker in Driving BlogTags: cheap, common-rail, diesel, fuel economy, hyundai, i30, road-test, Turbo
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Car registration time
Posted: 3rd June 2010 by Striker in Driving Blog, XR6 TurboTags: adrenaline, Bridgestone, car, registration, Turbo, tyres, wheels, XR6, XR6 Turbo
For the last two days, I’d noticed that the car had started pulling to the left slightly. Very un-usual, given this car drives absolutely perfectly. Last night, as I came out of Cats (the musical), I noticed that the left rear tyre was almost flat. I stopped in at a BP to fill it, and [...]
I jumped in to mum’s car a few days ago, when I went to the place WauloK was house-sitting, and it ran rubbish. I thought the timing may have been retarded, because every time I pressed on the accelerator, the motor started shuddering, but there were not too many issues cruising at a constant speed. [...]
Because it’s been sitting around for a while, I decided to take mum’s car out today. It’s running like a bucket of shit, it shudders under load. I think the timing must be out. I drove it round to the place that WauloK is house-sitting, and we then jumped in to his car, and drove [...]
