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[HNO3GOH]

A work friend has just bought a passat to put on as a taxi and got it at a knock down price cos it needed a cam belt. Went to the VW garage and just a little over £600 later had a new cam belt kit and just the cambelt kit. Even the garage i use said he would charge over £350 and that would be using gen parts. I think i like my V6 omega even more cos the last service which was a big one plus cambelt kit and all gen parts only come in at £330.
What about a 2.2DTI omega no cam belt there and not bad on fuel as that is what i use as my work car.

[tunnie]

£11k for the Audi A4 Diesel?  

Sorry but why the hell would you do that?

Ok so the A4 will do 50mpg, the Omega 30mpg.

But its going to taking years, even decades to get £11k back in fuel costs!

As it stands with LPG saving 40/50% £2k takes 2 years to pay back doing 10k miles a year.

Can't see the cost savings in going for a A4 oil burner when paying that sort of money  :-/

[theolodian]

Remember cocks now buy Audis

I've been starting to see evidence to support that.  One idiot in a new S3 almost sideswiped me the other day, and a chav in a new RS4 was sat in the car chatting with his GF before filling up - and we were waiting behind him!  

[f13platform]

Remember cocks now buy Audis

yes bmw is nt cocks anymore lol

[f13platform]

A work friend has just bought a passat to put on as a taxi and got it at a knock down price cos it needed a cam belt. Went to the VW garage and just a little over £600 later had a new cam belt kit and just the cambelt kit. Even the garage i use said he would charge over £350 and that would be using gen parts. I think i like my V6 omega even more cos the last service which was a big one plus cambelt kit and all gen parts only come in at £330.
What about a 2.2DTI omega no cam belt there and not bad on fuel as that is what i use as my work car.

people say bmw bill is big

my next car would be chain belt

[FRE07962128]

A work friend has just bought a passat to put on as a taxi and got it at a knock down price cos it needed a cam belt. Went to the VW garage and just a little over £600 later had a new cam belt kit and just the cambelt kit. Even the garage i use said he would charge over £350 and that would be using gen parts. I think i like my V6 omega even more cos the last service which was a big one plus cambelt kit and all gen parts only come in at £330.
What about a 2.2DTI omega no cam belt there and not bad on fuel as that is what i use as my work car.

people say bmw bill is big

my next car would be chain belt

That is still a winning factor on the Senator; the freedom of not worrying about the cam belt was marvelous, let alone the rest of the car!

[tunnie]

A work friend has just bought a passat to put on as a taxi and got it at a knock down price cos it needed a cam belt. Went to the VW garage and just a little over £600 later had a new cam belt kit and just the cambelt kit. Even the garage i use said he would charge over £350 and that would be using gen parts. I think i like my V6 omega even more cos the last service which was a big one plus cambelt kit and all gen parts only come in at £330.
What about a 2.2DTI omega no cam belt there and not bad on fuel as that is what i use as my work car.

people say bmw bill is big

my next car would be chain belt

That is still a winning factor on the Senator; the freedom of not worrying about the cam belt was marvelous, let alone the rest of the car!

The chains could still strech or snap, just like a belt   If not maintained.

[FRE07962128]

A work friend has just bought a passat to put on as a taxi and got it at a knock down price cos it needed a cam belt. Went to the VW garage and just a little over £600 later had a new cam belt kit and just the cambelt kit. Even the garage i use said he would charge over £350 and that would be using gen parts. I think i like my V6 omega even more cos the last service which was a big one plus cambelt kit and all gen parts only come in at £330.
What about a 2.2DTI omega no cam belt there and not bad on fuel as that is what i use as my work car.

people say bmw bill is big

my next car would be chain belt

That is still a winning factor on the Senator; the freedom of not worrying about the cam belt was marvelous, let alone the rest of the car!

The chains could still strech or snap, just like a belt   If not maintained.

Maybe Tunnie, but if you regularly service them, always keep the, quality, oil filled up, they run for the life of the engine; 300k+ minimum, if the rear wheel arches don't cripple the car first.

My 'H' reg. 3.0 CD Sennie had 180k+ when I px'd it for a miggy, and the main Vx dealer I knew well for many years stated they had a number then well passed 275k and still going strong, for which they would not be recommending a chain replacement; they lasted for "the life of the engine" if well oiled they stated.

[philhoward]

My 'H' reg. 3.0 CD Sennie had 180k+ when I px'd it for a miggy, and the main Vx dealer I knew well for many years stated they had a number then well passed 275k and still going strong, for which they would not be recommending a chain replacement; they lasted for "the life of the engine" if well oiled they stated.

ISTR that the Plod Sennies used to regularly see 250k without a rebuild (part of the reason they were so loathed to get rid of them..)

[Ironingboard]

My friend had a 330d X reg and his service bill............£1200  

[jereboam]

One of my car pool colleagues had an elderly A4 TDi which he ran on homebrew diesel.

There's no room in the back, the window winder sticks into your leg, the seats are rock hard and badly shaped and the suspension is nothing to write home about.  Maybe more recent models are better, but probably not a lot.

Used to get to work looking like Quasimodo and stinking of chips.  

He traded it in (to cheers all round) for an MG - don't know the model, but it's the one based on the Rover 400.  There's no room in the back, the window winder sticks into your leg, the seats are rock hard and badly shaped and the suspension is nothing to write home about.

We really ought to make him sit in the back one day...

Not that it's my problem any more...