New Car!!! (Mondeo)
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I don't remember any KIA having any problems with flywheels breaking up like your proper cars.
Just the steering rack and gearbox for the Cee'd then.
A straight choice between a car without a warranty that probably won't need it...or a car with a warranty that probably will...and I'll take the former, thanks.
You could replace the flywheel 20 times and still not make up the difference. Besides, thats a petrol anyway
I'd wager the common rail diesel Kias will have flywheel issues in a few years time
Because obviously Kia's are so well engineered that they have no mechanical issues ever, right?
Still, unless a new flywheel for the Mondeo costs more than £5.5k to replace, i'd still rather have the Mondeo.
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I like the wheels, it just doesnt sit right so you could either change the wheels or fit some eibachs, I think a set of £150 eibachs would make it sit nicely over the those wheels and improve the overall look a lot
Better than spending the cost of the car over again on wheels anyway, thats just accociated with crack and crack pipes
Better than spending the cost of the car over again on wheels anyway, thats just accociated with crack and crack pipes
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It's about 100 times less likely to suffer DMF issues, that's why the fact it's petrol is relevant.
Do you really think that was a number gathered after hours of hard meticulous research? It was fairly obvious I was making out the the petrol version is vastly less prone to the issue, or as you put it, pulling a figure out of my arse to make my point.
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I can imagine his missus coming in with the shopping, exclaiming 'OMG that shopping weighed a ton'. Only to be interrupted by a fuming MikeHiow brandishing a set of scales weighing the shopping shouting, 'THIS IS NOT A TON IT IS 15KGS!!! YOU STUPID WOMAN STOP TALKING OUT OF YOUR ****'.
I'd love to hear your theory on why they are "100 times less likely" to fail, slightly less likely I could go with, but I think you're wrong.
I think in actual fact you assume because you hear about lots of Diesel DMFs failing you assume they are more common, without factoring two important facts.
There are more Diesels, and most of the Diesels have a much higher mileage.
So the higher torque and workload on the flywheel is not an issue? In fact the higher mileage ones will probably fair better as long as those miles are are sat on the motorway as opposed to some pillock poodling around town in his dag dag machine riding the clutch and doing lots of pulling away.
Of course I have exaggerated to make a point, the fact remains that the Diesel is more prone to it.
Of course I have exaggerated to make a point, the fact remains that the Diesel is more prone to it.
It's well known that the DMF issues are massively more common on the diesels than petrol models. Just google "Mondeo DMF", and see how many results have "TDCi" in the blurb.