Thread: RE:How many Ks are to many.

G'day folks thanks for the responses to my last post i'm hoping i can get some more help with this one.Today i took my first disco for a test drive and was suprised but not happily.It was a 1997 tdi with 200,000 on the clock and an auto in what seemed to be in really good nic,it blew a little black smoke on start up but then idled nicely with very little. On take off i thought there was something wrong with the excelerator it seemed very stiff and i had to push it what seemed to be a long way down before i felt any power it also seemed to be very heavy in the steering. Now considering i'm currently driving an V6 Pajero and a V6 vn commodoore does this seem a normal opinion on first driving this type of vehicle. As before any and all advice would be much appreciated Cheers Bob

This experience sounds about right to me too - they can take a bit of getting used to , particularly if you want to acelerate quickly to enter a break in traffic.

Some owners of 300tdis have found it useful to adjust the slack out of the (stretched) accelerator cable (adjuster at the pump end of the cable).

regards - Laurie