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  2. LUPO TDI Sport

    in Volkswagen Lupo

    Posted · Edited by Sarahs Lupo

    im using an app to track my fuel economy for fun. to a tank i am getting 340 miles with an average spend of £32-£34 . i am getting real world figures of 58-61mpg. My commute is 18miles of twisty,hilly roads, and then 15miles of motorway sat at 65-70mph. so 35miles ish each way. 

     

    forgot to add i have a 2004 Lupo SDI , 147k miles, standard car with an engine light on :)

     

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  9. Cambelt on SDI. What a horrid job!

    in Volkswagen Lupo

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    19 hours ago, mk2 said:

    Always busy... I need 36h days. 24 is just not enough! I will try and upload all the how-to pics again tomorrow night. Just collecting all the bits for one of the SDI cam belt changes this week. If no rain and I could be bothered, it's saturday AM to do it. Next one around xmas probably. Sigh...

    Can you post up some links where to buy and stuff.

    i want to give this a go with your help ofcourse :) 

     

  12. LUPO 1.7SDI

    in Volkswagen Lupo

    Posted

    Still here! 

    Loving MPG life! 

     

    my fault is still there.. havent had time to diagnose correctly... havent even checked the wiring etc.. been too busy using it as a daily beater!

    Got some new wipers today and an Air filter - i also added all the service history to a nice Excel spread sheet which tells me a new air filter is needed after 25k miles!! 

    I need to get kick @mk2 into sorting out the pics for cambelt change or at least gimme a hand haha! i think one of the idlers is making a metallic rattle sound.. it is over due by 25k also!! 

    ****! 

    Also still need to fit the glow plugs (doh!) 

    Lovely car just keeps going and going, just wish i had to time to sort the niggles out!! 

     

  13. SDI Excessive Vibration - H e e e e l l l l p p p p !!!!

    in Volkswagen Lupo

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    On 11/24/2019 at 1:31 PM, Gary7 said:

    Lupo SDi 1.7 AKN engine code.  Can You Help?

    My Lupo suffers from excessive vibration, its not the normal vibration, but more, hopefully someone has had a similar experience and solved it?  This is the second SDI Lupo I have owned, in comparison, the previous one ran like a 'Swiss watch' until the engine management gave up.

    The L & R engine mount appear fine, I recently changed the rear gearbox mount (dogbone) while underneath replacing the center & rear silencers.  The front small 'knuckle joint was completely shot, but the larger rear rubber mounting was ok, I hope this would solve the problem, not such luck, it is now much worse!  At tick over (950rpm) is unbearable, 20mph plus better, but the mind-numbimng vibration comes back around 60-65mph, over 73mph its fine.  Tricky to drive anywhere like this!  I initially beleived the problem may be clutch related, as the previous owner made a number of 'schoolboy' reassembly errors, not doing mount bolts up properly etc, however there are no other clutch related symptoms whatsoever.

    Please share any ideas you may have about the cause would be fantastic.

    Gary7

     

     

    welcome Gary.

    Fellow SDI owner here! 

    I had engine issues but were all the time regardless of speed or RPM. mine was a faulty ECU but yours sounds intermittent however, the previous owner of my car said it came and went until finally giving up being lumpy/loud all the time. 

    Have you stuck a code reader on it? VCDS or a cheap code reader app on your phone? thats a good place to start. 

     

  14. CJ1's GTI Project

    in Member's Cars

    Posted

    3 hours ago, cj1 said:

    Do you have a build thread? 

    Thanks! Have quite the collection of spare parts all sitting around from the rally car, so fortunately a lot of what I need I already have at home... Just finding the time to do it! :)

    No build thread for me. 

    I might see if I can start one. 

    I'm on the same wave length as you. Mild restoration and small mods to make the car nicer to live with day to day 

  15. Petrol Arosa owners MPG

    in Seat Arosa

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, Stephenmacleod said:

    personally wouldnt use used veg oil. I assume this is where many problems will start as used oil would obviously need to be strained, cleaned etc. and its chemical properties would be different. If you have the space, storage and equipment to strain it then great. dont forget to keep on top of servicing if you do plenty of miles

    yeah thats exactly right, been watching the VEG oil my car website and youtube, i want to do it for the experiment side, im happy to filter it, i have seen you let it sit etc. and i got the space. if its free i cant argue with that!! 

  20. One for LupoGTiboy (Martin)

    in Car Care, Maintenance and Mechanical

    Posted

    On 11/8/2019 at 6:49 PM, mk2 said:

    There are just no lupos in any scrappies that i know within 30 miles of me. Rare as.... 

    Not fair.

    partly why i ordered some through the dealer.

    Silverlake in Southampton is where i got a few key items from, but that was their oonly Lupo and was stripped near bare when i arrived.

    i tried the chinese clips but werent the same so gave up and got the proper ones.

  24. Bed sheet headliner?

    in Volkswagen Lupo

    Posted

    only thing i can forsee is that if the headliner needs glueing, so gluing bedsheet to cardboard headliner, surely some of the glue will seep through? 

    Someone on the facebook group has a marvel headliner haha

     go nuts these cars are cheap to experiment with 

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