Thread: New EGR in the Puma, what a difference!

Hey Tim,

I just read your thread, my interest pick up when you talked about taking off from the lights in 2nd.

There is no way my Puma SVX will take off in second gear, even pointing down hill it struggles.

Does a SVX have different gearing to standard Puma's ?

I haven’t had my first service (10,000k's) yet, but it is due in about 2000k's. maybe I have some sort of power problem, although it seems to drive great. The dealer might be able to sort it out.

Cheers

Don't worry you need to give it a bit to take off in 2nd. I prefer using 1st as I think it places les strain on things.

SVX is just a black 2008 Puma with some fancy stickers and an ugly (IMO) front grill. So gearing is the same.

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Don't worry you need to give it a bit to take off in 2nd. I prefer using 1st as I think it places les strain on things.

SVX is just a black 2008 Puma with some fancy stickers and an ugly (IMO) front grill. So gearing is the same.

agree on both counts Derek

Originally Posted by Drover

Hey Tim,

I just read your thread, my interest pick up when you talked about taking off from the lights in 2nd.

There is no way my Puma SVX will take off in second gear, even pointing down hill it struggles.

Does a SVX have different gearing to standard Puma's ?

I haven’t had my first service (10,000k's) yet, but it is due in about 2000k's. maybe I have some sort of power problem, although it seems to drive great. The dealer might be able to sort it out.

Cheers

Hi Drover, I find if its flat, or especially down hill, I can take off in 2nd without too much trouble or clutch slipping, (my 110 is also nearly always empty). If you are on any kind of up hill slope forget about using 2nd.
I had a look at the clutch when they changed it at about 40,000kms, (because the anti rattle springs had come loose), and it looked like new, so I hadn't been giving it a real hard time. I found my 110's engine "loosened up" quite a bit around the 15,000km mark.

Cheers,

Tim

SVX is just a black 2008 Puma with some fancy stickers and an ugly (IMO) front grill. So gearing is the same.[/QUOTE]

You may be right. But you forgot those amazing seats.

Those of us with the SVX's may agree with you on most points cosmetically. But we probably enjoy some of the extra features on our overpriced Defenders.

Kenley

Originally Posted by kenleyfred

SVX is just a black 2008 Puma with some fancy stickers and an ugly (IMO) front grill. So gearing is the same.

You may be right. But you forgot those amazing seats.

Those of us with the SVX's may agree with you on most points cosmetically. But we probably enjoy some of the extra features on our overpriced Defenders.

Kenley[/QUOTE]

yeah I got an over priced defender with no extras......

I like pretty much everything on an SVX except that grill...and I dont even mind the gril when it is colour coded.

Agree, someone on here with one of the first SVX's about a year ago posted photo's of theirs with the front end colour coded black to match the rest. Looked fantastic I thought and a big improvement.

Originally Posted by kenleyfred

You may be right. But you forgot those amazing seats.

You would have to bring that point up! They are very nice seats