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Martin_1962

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Bosses new car
« on: 15 July 2008, 23:36:23 »
He did have a 3.0 X Type which was developing engine problems, he had to cancel a visit to a potential customer due to not trusting it :(

Anyway he now has a tractor Diesel 2.0 X type with the Mondeo engine (as he says) and he found the power band was too narrow, so now been remapped with a smoother wider power band and is now much better to drive.

Oh well he is off to Devon on Sunday and a long run to the cancelled person on Friday
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Kevin Wood

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« Reply #1 on: 16 July 2008, 09:35:50 »
I went in a diesel X type once. It has to have the roughest, most unrefined diseasel engine I've ever come across. Straight out of a Transit van IMHO.

Still, if it doesn't grenade I guess he'll be happy.

Kevin
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« Reply #2 on: 16 July 2008, 13:05:33 »
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I went in a diesel X type once. It has to have the roughest, most unrefined diseasel engine I've ever come across. Straight out of a Transit van IMHO.

Still, if it doesn't grenade I guess he'll be happy.

Kevin

Will possibly get some light mickey taking on Friday!
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« Reply #3 on: 16 July 2008, 20:19:46 »
I doubt the reason with noise and roughness is the engine. It seems like manufacturers which dont have experience with diesel applications in passinger cars tend to fail dealing with HNV (I hope i wrote that right) associeted with this type of engine. Another example is when Mitsubishi started using VWs TDI in Grandis. Now, this is not the smoothest and quitest diesel by any means, but there is night and day differerence between Sharalaxy and Grandis, even though Grandis is much newer vehicle.
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« Reply #4 on: 16 July 2008, 22:23:03 »
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I doubt the reason with noise and roughness is the engine. It seems like manufacturers which dont have experience with diesel applications in passinger cars tend to fail dealing with HNV (I hope i wrote that right) associeted with this type of engine. Another example is when Mitsubishi started using VWs TDI in Grandis. Now, this is not the smoothest and quitest diesel by any means, but there is night and day differerence between Sharalaxy and Grandis, even though Grandis is much newer vehicle.

True. Jaguar are only just grappling with transverse FWD as well (if you believe they aren't just Fords) which also makes a big difference over a longitudinal RWD setup in terms of amking the car comfortable.

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