General 1.2 or JTD - which is better?

[Muppet1]

Maybe THATS why my EGR is still original and never been cleaned or given me grief!

Hmmmmmmmmmm give it another few thousand miles and i will soon be able to tell you as ragging the nuts off mine most of the time also should mean i wont ever need one again.
Oh and mine rev's round cleanly to 4500rpm too.

Oh and servicing every 20,000 give or take a few thousand here and there, oil and filter and fuel filter when i feel like it.

Apart from that it doesnt get touched!!

 

[Ffoxy]

Hmmmmmmmmmm give it another few thousand miles and i will soon be able to tell you as ragging the nuts off mine most of the time also should mean i wont ever need one again.
Oh and mine rev's round cleanly to 4500rpm too.

Oh and servicing every 20,000 give or take a few thousand here and there, oil and filter and fuel filter when i feel like it.

Apart from that it doesnt get touched!!

I've done 55,000...... I dont rag it... ever, really just give it a good run out through the rev range keeping to speed limits... mostly.

 

[StiloBoy]

Oh and mine rev's round cleanly to 4500rpm too.

Yeah but as stated earlier ragging a TDI to the red line doesn't extract the best performance. All it does is waste fuel!

4500rpm.... haha! Sorry, Thats where I change gear when I'm in a hurry but not ragging it!

 

[StevenkSengwayo]

If you're still looking for a JTD here you go http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/2005-FIAT-STILO-SPORTING-JTD-BLACK_W0QQitemZ170386100511QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item27abcd911f&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14 now don't say I never do nout for you

 

[Hellcat]

4500rpm.... haha! Sorry, Thats where I change gear when I'm in a hurry but not ragging it!

JTD 4500rpm in 5th is about 115 with another gear to go :slayer:

 

[StiloBoy]

In the UK surely not! But still you'd win that race as anyone following you wouldn't see you for all the black reek! lol

 

[Hellcat]

No it was in Germany. More important to me is holding 60 up the hills in the Yorkshire Moors and other hills where a 1.2 wouldn't be able to hold the speed.

 

[Argonought]

JTD 4500rpm in 5th is about 115 with another gear to go :slayer:

You'd be going a darn site faster than that in the Stilo JTD115 5 speed :devil:

Wonderful climbing hills at 80/90 in 4th too :slayer:

That said, I'd say the 1.2 is the far superior town car

 

[Hellcat]

For driving around town I'd agree, the 1.2 makes sence.

 

[StiloBoy]

So we're all in agreement then, town and light country/motorway driving the 1.2 meets most demands, whereas driving mainly on motorway or longer country roads then the JTD makes most sence.

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Plus should be good for 75000miles these days, I can't remember for sure but i'm sure its about then that they recommend being changed by service manual.

75k pfft.

The gap on them!

Evey 12k for me, although they'd safely do 24k.

Don't forget, the more worn plugs get, the weaker the spark, the ****tyer the ignition = poor power / performance / MPG.

 

[StiloBoy]

Slightly outdated view though that, I mean your basing your servicing on spark plug technology from 20years ago lol. If you check the plugs and the gaps are fine and the condition is fine then why bother changing them? If you did idling issues, or that fuel economy had dropped off then sure replace the plugs!

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

Slightly outdated view though that, I mean your basing your servicing on spark plug technology from 20years ago lol.

We'll not really as your still going to get carbon build up, and electode wear, but I do hear what your saying about plugs being better now than they've ever been

 

[StiloBoy]

Although perversely now I've been looking at new plugs hehehe! You got me thinking thats 62,000miles i've covered and they've never been changed. Economy is still as it was, engine is still running smoothy. So why am I looking at plugs? Because historically I feel they should have been changed by now. I change the mini plugs very regularly but then thats because the old A-series is very tough on its plugs compared to modern motors.

 

[dyzio]

A small update...
Just got back home... in my 1.2 active Stilo
The engine did well in my opinion on the motorway from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, not too fast, but I have my bike for that :devil:

I haven't been driving for a while, but felt really good behind the wheel.

The dealer has mot'd and serviced (new timing and alternator belt), so that's that good for another 3yrs (or 36k) or is there something else (apart from oil/filter/plugs)?

Cheers
dyzio

 

[StiloBoy]

A small update...
Just got back home... in my 1.2 active Stilo
The engine did well in my opinion on the motorway from Edinburgh to Aberdeen, not too fast, but I have my bike for that :devil:

I haven't been driving for a while, but felt really good behind the wheel.

The dealer has mot'd and serviced (new timing and alternator belt), so that's that good for another 3yrs (or 36k) or is there something else (apart from oil/filter/plugs)?

Cheers
dyzio

Good choice that man! Good car eh!

 

[Most Easterly Pandas]

:yeahthat:

Sounds like you got a good deal with the belt being done in the deal

Jon.