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It's not going to stop.... things will never get cheaper the only thing that will lessen is any help we're entitled to as British tax payers, someone will always have to pay for the weak and feeble/immigrants

That's a funny looking bingo Hall, didn't know they had live music

I wouldn't have said so

The old x-type was mondeo based, the xf wasn't mondeo apart from maybe the front suspension, and obviously the engine was a Ford v6 but the rest of the car wasn't Ford based

The audi is a family car, its a 2l tdi estate so not exactly what you'd call extravagant yeah maybe upmarket slightly but I don't want a mundano or a picarsehole or any of that lower class heap of shite. I'd have liked an xf estate but they are abit more money than I'd like to pay. And they are alot more in road tax than the audi and the audi is better on fuel so that's why I got what I got

He has offered me a beemer 3 series if the audi falls through though

Mildly moist I think is the best term to use

I think its giving you the come on eye

There is a hesitation as low rpm and the throttle response is quite snatchy, so I'll have a check over the plugs/leads and airfilter tonight and clean things up abit

Yeah it does miss but mainly when it's up to temp so could well be fouled plugs

I hope its not a coil pack

It could well be plugs, I'll take them out tonight and gap them and give them a clean up, but it's on my list of things to get on with this evening since yesterday I gutted the garage out and organised it so I can now get around the bikes and get to my tools so that is a plus

I'll be having a look at things tonight once skyes gone to bed. She wants her minimoto fixing up too so I'll be getting some work done on that

I did notice that at 4k it has a noticeable growl from the induction its not at any other rpm just 4k so just wondering it that could have anything to do with it as a culprit of something not being quite right

It could well be that its just the phone playing silly buggers with the sound but as you say the only way to know for sure is to hear it 1st hand

I didn't really think about a vacuum leak, could be one it's tubes has perished slightly

Yeah our energy bill is already high enough without putting a heater in the garage to keep the bikes warm, maybe an old blanket might keep them both slightly warmer and stave it off slightly but I'd say just abit more use and alternating the optimate over to each bike each week

Possibly, it idles fine when it's cold but once it warms up it starts hunting/running on 3 cyl and then the idle climbs from 1.5k to 2k rpm and blipping the throttle the revs don't drop to idle sharp that gradually come down. I'd be surprised if its an injector issue its more a throttle body issue I think

Which one you on about then?

When I got back home it started straight back up after I'd turned it off and left it sitting for a couple minutes so I'm hoping the plates have just sulphated slightly and getting it on the optimate should recover it if it's not too far gone. I think I need to buy some pro fst to stabilise the fuel as its hunting all over the place on idle and the idle is high at 2k rpm so the throttle bodies may be slightly gummed up with lack of use. It also needs a service oil and filters and plugs

Warmer....its definitely warm enough well at least it is up here

Well its once more than you it would seem, we've not seen any van action from you yet

Hmm so when would that be?

@Six30..... hmmm