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Okay so my dads car has the awesome(so I thought) 1.4 TSI engine on his car. 60000km later -poof , engine failure. VW-sa replace the whole unit with a completely new one. So is our new tech in engines and motoring leaning towards becomming hyper efficient,ultra complicated and fragile ? I mean my mazda 323's 1300 engine is going strong and so are my scooby's n fords engines rock solid. But this TSI- EISHness |
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@abott | 25 September 12 |
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maybe it was aspecific fault on that engine, it happens.
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@kabir88 | 25 September 12 |
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yep a problem they're aware off on that engine....still i wonder about tech of nowdays.
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@thesayan | 25 September 12 |
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i agree kabir88 everything is getting to complicated the smallest thing go's wrong and your whole engine is gone. Never buy a Saab man too complicated for its own good
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@kabir88 | 26 September 12 |
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i'm all for electronics (thats my job) but things still need to be mechanically robust. the boxer engine is exactly that, the tsi NOT so...both have fancyness in the form of modern electronics.
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@freakman | 26 September 12 |
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Own a 3.2 FSI v6 and tis good. But if u dont drain ur oil regularly well before recommended intervals with good quality oil such things happen. Whats main issue is to reduce the block size and improve efficiency engine compression ratio is set very high.
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@freakman | 26 September 12 |
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Plus city traffic driving reduces oil life so if recommended interval is 10k or so it would be better to drain oil evry 7k or so for better engine life.
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@spartan2 | 26 September 12 |
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More parts mean more potential failures but if you want better economy then this is the price you pay. If the environment or the amount of oil we have left didnt matter then everyone can just drive around in V8s. Modern engines are incredibly robust in the main and vastly more reliable and durable than anything built even just 20 years ago
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@kabir88 | 2 October 12 |
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well spartan it seems you're right but while that may be the case, nobody 'fixes' anything these days... everything is replaced and that makes it very expensive to maintain these modern cars.tradeoff yeh! for those who don't know,ppl in the average joe category, are reliant more now on a 'reputable garage' to fix faults.... when they fail @ their jobs, the car owner is left with enourmous bills and no choice. some1 needs to make cheaper and larger volumes of hybrids for the genpop...anyway
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@spartan2 | 2 October 12 |
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Hybrids are even more expensive to build and maintain.....they contain hundreds of extra parts, many of them incredibly expensive so that hybrids will always be more expensive than a vehicle with a basic engine. Most people might not keep a vehicle when it gets beyond 10 years old, but many do and there is still a question mark over the cost of maintenance of a hybrid vehicle such as its battery life beyond that point.
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@andkentx | 8 October 12 |
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3000 mile oil changes are better
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