Xantia of Desires - Farewell xantia!

[beko1987]

Even with it's much improved forward momemtum it wasn't uneconomical (although I never drove it at full pelt the whole time). 600ish miles to 65 litres (well, a bit less, as I fill up when the light comes on) isn't too shabby. Will be interesting to see if that improves with a full tank when it next gets one.

[twosmoke300]

Tweaked to the point it wont pass an MOT is barrying is it not ?

[beko1987]

Tweaked to the point it wont pass an MOT is barrying is it not ?

I suppose so. It's all very well and fun making a mockery of the audi tdi's in L3 of the m40 and picking fights with bmw 3 series on the marlow bypass, or purposefully driving very slow and old man like when mr cocksocket comes up your arse then burning it away into the distance when he goes to overtake after 5 miles of missed opportunities just as you approach a bend but I'd rather not have this fun* every year at MOT time!

[egg]

This thread has had more twists than an Agatha Christie novel. Been watching but nothing to add other than hope you get an early Xmas present!

[Jim Bell]

Ive been hooked since the first episode. On the edge of my seat now.

[beko1987]

Me too! And I'm the storyteller. It's like those goosebumps books where you have to go to either page 28 or 47 to progress the story

[beko1987]

Oh, and repeated (3 times throughout my journey home) hard revving reveals no smoke. Promising

[oldcars]

Good luck. You will be hammering the F5 key on the mot check site tomorrow 

[beko1987]

Nah I'll be there waiting. Will be on my lunch break so I booked it in for 12.15,and asked the guy if it would be on time and he said yes, I explained why and they seemed fine with it.

 

Ill be providing humorous* updates here instead

[twosmoke300]

Well ?

[Arthur Foxhake]

It's not 'Barry' to adjust these pumps from their quite tame factory settings to improve driveability, loads of people do it.

It's no problem making adjustments to the pump for more power. There's loads of gains to be had and still pass MOT.

I've almost always ground a load off the LDA pin, shimmed the governor, cranked up the fuel and still never failed an MOT on emmisions. It's possible the wastegate was not adjusted to suit the extra fuel being added, I don't know.

Besides, this isn't BarryBoys and we shouldn't be discussing "what is Barry and what isn't?"

If somebody wants to mess with their car it's up to them really.

[beko1987]

Well ?

Well what?

[twosmoke300]

Sorry - thought mot was today for some reason

[tapir]

best of luck beko, lets hope the xantia xmas present to you is a 12 month ticket from the ministry of transport

[SiC]

It's no problem making adjustments to the pump for more power. There's loads of gains to be had and still pass MOT.

I've almost always ground a load off the LDA pin, shimmed the governor, cranked up the fuel and still never failed an MOT on emmisions. It's possible the wastegate was not adjusted to suit the extra fuel being added, I don't know.

Besides, this isn't BarryBoys and we shouldn't be discussing "what is Barry and what isn't?"

If somebody wants to mess with their car it's up to them really.

By the sounds of it on what has been said on here and you've said when you fixed it, this cars tune was fiddled with by so much, it was all over the shop! I.e. fiddled by someone who doesn't completely know what they're doing.

[bub2006]

Just to clarify I didn't touch a thing!

[Arthur Foxhake]

By the sounds of it on what has been said on here and you've said when you fixed it, this cars tune was fiddled with by so much, it was all over the shop! I.e. fiddled by someone who doesn't completely know what they're doing.

It was definitely overfuelling by a long way, no idea who fiddled with it or not and don't want to know or accuse anybody.

Hopefully it doesn't matter any more and it gets the thumbs up for soot deposits when tested tomorrow.

Otherwise It'll be EGR related I would think.

[beko1987]

Just to clarify - I don't care who did what either. Their car, their choice! I bought it knowing full well what the score was, and am still very happy with it.

 

This outlook may change at 1pm tomorrow but that would be the same of any mot result on any car.

[Arthur Foxhake]

Otherwise, Saab.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just saying like.

[beko1987]

Ha!

 

(you joke now, if you get a dejected pm from me tomorrow offering a xantia as swap...)

[Arthur Foxhake]

Oh crap...

[SiC]

If not, there is another Saab on here going really (special deal) cheap if interested!

[beko1987]

 

I've got those butterflys again. It's not even been driven in yet!

[SiC]

I was just wondering what's the status of this was! I even went as far as finding the reg and firing up the most checker.

[beko1987]

It's being driven in now!

[beko1987]

R499AMV if people are impatient, won't be a while yet, then I need to drive back to work before I can update the final score

[JohnK]

I've had the MOT check site up all morning in the office with C503 TLX on constant refresh, but now I know it's passed and I don't have any work to do it's now swapped over to R499 AMV!

[beko1987]

[beko1987]

It's just had 2 snap accelerations, and only 2... Unless their doing something else...

[beko1987]

Ah no, 2 more