Daily dci

[Brigsy]

Mpg seems to be awesome on the blue dci @Mazz it does do a fair bit of dual carriageway driving though. The orange one does around 62mpg with a mixture of street and short dual carriageway runs, so yours sounds about right.

Id leave cat off and egr blanked. The blue one is smoking bad from cold now and assume oil control rings are stuck due to oily crap building up, these engines are dirty and the egr chokes them up. Ive got the parts in stock to give it a freshen up very soon, im thinking about spinning the egr 180deg when its back together aka cheap delete.

 

[Martin_172]

Mpg seems to be awesome on the blue dci @Mazz it does do a fair bit of dual carriageway driving though. The orange one does around 62mpg with a mixture of street and short dual carriageway runs, so yours sounds about right.

Id leave cat off and egr blanked. The blue one is smoking bad from cold now and assume oil control rings are stuck due to oily crap building up, these engines are dirty and the egr chokes them up. Ive got the parts in stock to give it a freshen up very soon, im thinking about spinning the egr 180deg when its back together aka cheap delete.

Mine ran brilliant after I disconnected it while closed so it wasn't doing anything! Night and day better, performance, economy and just general running!

 

[Brigsy]

Mine ran brilliant after I disconnected it while closed so it wasn't doing anything! Night and day better, performance, economy and just general running!

Did it chuck the eml on ? Ive considered modifying the pushrod on the solenoid.

 

[Martin_172]

Did it chuck the eml on ? Ive considered modifying the pushrod on the solenoid.

it never brought the light on once in 30k, HOWEVER it was running a superchips map so I'm not sure if the EML/EGR had been disabled, there was certainly nothing in the description to say it had but my old standard 65 used to bring the light on with the EGR disconnected.

 

[Brigsy]

Xmas repairs to the blue dci.

Epic amounts of blue smoke/misfire from cold now. Ready to pull pistons out tomorrow, bores are nice and shiney, i guess that explains the epic oil usage. Evidence of previous inlet valve to piston clatter on cylinder 1&4, i had a feeling it had a head job previously.

Pikey flex hone in situ tomorrow.

 

[Bluebeard]

You’re amazing.

everyone else; this is broke. I’ll buy another one.

Jon; be’reet Al fix at lyke

 

[Djw John]

How pikey a bore though, actual tool or tennis ball covered in 80 grit attached to a drill?

 

[Krarl]

Get that cat pulled off Jon boy🤣

How pikey a bore though, actual tool or tennis ball covered in 80 grit attached to a drill?

Don't be daft, an airline and a bottle of sand🤣

 

[Djw John]

Why would you take the head off for that? Brick on throttle and sand in through the air box.

just a bit at a time though, don't be an idiot with it 😂😂

 

[Krarl]

Why would you take the head off for that? Brick on throttle and sand in through the air box.

just a bit at a time though, don't be an idiot with it 😂😂

When I had my old dci I sprayed water vapour through the inlet to decarb it a bit🤣🤣

Did f**k all to it really but it was worth a shot🤣

 

[Brigsy]

How pikey a bore though, actual tool or tennis ball covered in 80 grit attached to a drill?

A few strokes of this badboy and should be good to go

Im hope it f**king works as the Kangoo is the only thing thats legal at the moment and its had £250 worth of fuel in it over the last ten days

 

[Brigsy]

Get that cat pulled off Jon boy🤣


Don't be daft, an airline and a bottle of sand🤣

Pulling any money? Last derv one i done got £30 for. Got a ph1 225 cat here might get that gone

 

[plees]

Pulling any money? Last derv one i done got £30 for. Got a ph1 225 cat here might get that gone

Last kangoo one I got rid of I got £77 for. But an earlier kangoo was only £30. Swings and roundabouts! That 225 cat will get you something nice for Christmas no doubt!

 

[Krarl]

Aye between £30-80 for a 1500 dCi cat. A PH1 225 cat was £450-£600. Not checked on prices in a while

 

[Brigsy]

Bores glaze busted. Pistons cleaned up, ring gap checked, clocked and fitted. 8 hours due to fuckabout half dropping subframe to remove sump

Damage from previous piston to valve kiss

Big ends look good so straight back in

Head back on after boxing day.

 

[Adey.]

love the fix it mentality you have jon, awesome work any sneaky secret squirrel upgrades happening at the same time?

 

[Djw John]

Probably compound charging.

 

[Brigsy]

Cat needs to go but cant be fucked paying somebody to make a pipe up.

Keep it going for a few more miles while looking for a replacement @Adeyspec . Ive been looking for suitable diesels for work but a lot of scrap about for 2-3k at the moment.

 

[Krarl]

Cat needs to go but cant be fucked paying somebody to make a pipe up.

Keep it going for a few more miles while looking for a replacement @Adeyspec . Ive been looking for suitable diesels for work but a lot of scrap about for 2-3k at the moment.

If you knock the guts out of that cat and put it in a bag I can get you the same money for it. Tommy pays for the material as long as you can send him the code

 

[Adey.]

upgrade to a mk3 Clio dci in the future? mine wasn't bad on fuel at all.

 

[Brigsy]

Ill have a look and see if i can get in with the bar @Yorkshire Pudding

What was the mk3 like on diesel @Adeyspec ? The mk4s we had at work were good for 50mpg from memory.

 

[Krarl]

Ill have a look and see if i can get in with the bar @Yorkshire Pudding

What was the mk3 like on diesel @Adeyspec ? The mk4s we had at work were good for 50mpg from memory.

You should be able to smash the internals out with a prybar if I remember. If not you can cut a slit and then just peel a window on the part that sits against the block. Nobody will know👀🤣

 

[Adey.]

Pretty sure I averaged about 50 to 52, I did hammer it across the b lanes daily so could easily of done better.

 

[Twingo 1??]

Don't know if this helps but my Megane mk3 110 gets 50-53mpg. I only paid 550 for it and seen a few about 1k.

 

[Krarl]

I don't get why they're so s**t on fuel. My MK2 dCi 100 did 80mpg average

Newcastle to Brighton at 60mph did a steady 92mpg. I'm fairly certain it was running on the fumes coming out of the cars Infront

@Gus has/had a MK4 that he does silly mpg in iirc

 

[Gus]

93 mpg average over 2000 miles

I regularly get over 99.9 mpg though if I am on the motorway.

 

[plees]

If you knock the guts out of that cat and put it in a bag I can get you the same money for it. Tommy pays for the material as long as you can send him the code

They any better on fuel without the cat in with it being more free flowing?
What they like noise wise? 👍🏻
Might have just given myself another job to do!

 

[Krarl]

They any better on fuel without the cat in with it being more free flowing?
What they like noise wise? 👍🏻
Might have just given myself another job to do!

My pal decatted his 80 when the engine went pop. There isn't much noise added apart from a bit of turbo whilstle, bit more smoke but he's still got the backbox in place

When he starts it I tend to sniff up harder, f**king love the smell of diesel smoke🤣

 

[plees]

@Yorkshire Pudding cold diesel smoke above everything!

 

[Bluebeard]

My pal decatted his 80 when the engine went pop. There isn't much noise added apart from a bit of turbo whilstle, bit more smoke but he's still got the backbox in place

When he starts it I tend to sniff up harder, f**king love the smell of diesel smoke🤣

Buy my X5. Makes my bloody eyes water.

 

[Krarl]

Buy my X5. Makes my bloody eyes water.

My Mégane makes my eyes water when it does a DPF regen. There's a reason Nissan's used to set on fire, I'm surprised the exhaust housing of the turbo doesn't turn into a puddle ffs🤣🤣

 

[Martin_172]

I found my GT DCI 106 was about 15mpg off my mapped DCI 100 on the same run! MK4 was around the same as the mk3, current Mk5 is a bit better but it's just a DCI 85

 

[VenomUK]

Always on the hunt for more MPG!

So if I take the cat off (or internals out) on my MK2 Kangoo 1.5 dci I’ll get better MPG over my current (which is already good)

 

[Brigsy]

I could live with 50+ mpg so might have a look at the newer clios.

Blue clio back together.

Fired up first turn, did not need any sniff to get it going which was good. No blue smoke from cold so looks promising, engine sounds great even quieter than before.

Took it for a ten mile drive on some local b roads with hills using peak torque/boost to get some load on the new rings to break them in. Will run it on mineral oil for a thousand miles or so before going back to synthetic.

 

[Bluebeard]

@Brigsy - I used this for a looooong road trip last week. Did nearly 70mpg! (Think it was 68.8??)

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I think they are really good cars - and a step up from the Mk2. Sadly, the seats in the mk3 are abysmal. Like sitting on a temporary camping stool/walking stick combo. You could literally fall
Off at any given moment. 😂

 

[Brigsy]

Decent that @Daniel . Ive only drove a 197 with recaros before not had the pleasure of driving a povo yet. Cant be any worse than some of the heaps of shite ive drove in the past though

 

[Krarl]

Aye the MK3 standard sport seats are w**k😂

Comfy, but very w**k. Same as the Mégane MK2 really Jon

 

[Martin_172]

Set of GT chairs would solve that and come up cheap!

 

[Mazz]

jeez @Brigsy, all I did was turn around for a minute and wtf next thing I see the head is off ??
Please keep reporting on the ghetto rehone jobbo, I'm interested.

 

[VenomUK]

Reading this has made me want a MK2 dci.... are there any on the market for a few quid....is there f###