The Dilemma

Its just had new injectors and rings, i think its more to do with the mass of my right foot and the weight effect it has on the right pedal, spends a lot of time welded to the firewall. The tdi is fantastic offroad and still beautiful on it, its extremely long lived and reliable, but for hoghway driving it gets a bit tiresome, the acceleration is pretty dreadful and when you hook one of the trailers onto it it just gets worse, rapidly. I need a car to do everyhting well and that hwy i want to change to a td5, i know it will cost more in maintenance, and be a little less reliable, but for me the benefits outweight the disadvantages and sadly i will have to let my lovely tdi go to the next sucker (i mean blessed owner) would have loved it for a project, but i am into buggies and i think if i made an offroad rig i would base it on Suzuki Sierra axles with a tube frame and maybe a motorcycle engine, a Discovery is too big a project, especially if it wasn't registered, maybe later in life. But we're all cool with suzukis as Garthon's did sell them for a while, i'de be shot of i bought a tojo (not that i'd ever want to)

Cheers
Will

I would also suggest that there is a problem with your Tdi if you only get that miserable fuel consumption figure from it. Should your driving style be the culprit, as suggested by you, then you will have to expect at least similar figures from the Td5. The choice is yours...

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Originally Posted by DeanoH

All the best for whichever decision you make Will, but owning two cars can be an expensive proposition. Try not to put yourself in a position where you can afford to own 2 vehicles but don't have enough cash left over to get either to the state you want them. Can be very frustrating. Would you be better off to park up the D1 for later or to sell it and put the money towards getting the D2 to where you want it ? The old head vs. heart argument.

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I like having two, that way when one is parked up in the driveway getting some attention i still have a Land Rover to drive. It has become a bit of a joke in my family because everytime I decide to do some work on one of the cars it seems to take me a few weeks, saves on running costs ;). Sometimes you have got to go with your heart, always making decisions with your head leads to a boring life in my opinion - or maybe that is just my head :(.