Bravo Newbie from Madrid, Spain

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Bravo Newbie from Madrid, Spain

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Hi everyone,

I'm a car enthusiast and I enjoy fixing my vehicules.
I own a Bravo II 1.6 Mjet 105 cv from 2010, a VW Passat 2.0 TDI from 2007 and Yamaha MT07 2018.
I'm hoping I can find info about the Bravo here, because it seems to be very scarce in the internet.
 
Hi and welcome to the forum. I had a Bravo exactly like yours and did 170,000km in it. The tyres lasted nearly 120,000km on hte front!! The only fault was the EGR valve. I was advised to run a fuel cleaning additive monthly. I changed the EGR at around 65000km and used cleaner. I never had another problem. The engine was running beautifully when I sold it. It used to do 85mpg when driven gently and 65mpg like clockwork. (Sorry no idea in l/100km) A superb towing car too. It was ruined by towing though in the end. My one tip is change the gear box oil every 50000 km and avoid overloading the gearbox bearings. (less speed....) Its a car I really wish I had repaired and kept. A really good and reliable car. Most jobs are easy. The air filter is a pain though and you need to be careful if driving through floods as its very low down in the wheel arch. You are also best to remove the wheel arch liner to change the oil fiIter. (and its a messy job) I did break the filter box and had to repair it, but while awkward it was still straightforward to remove. That car deserved to be a roaring success. I previously had a VW Golf 2.0 TDI and it was more powerfiul but a great deal less pleasant to drive and MUCH less reliable, and much less well made amazingly. You do need the tools to wind the brake calipers back on the rears, and one side is left hand wind back. As nothing else went wrong at all in all those miles thats the limit mof my experience. Fantastic car!
 
Hi Panda!
I agree it's a good car for the price paid.
Those are incredibly low consumptions! I'm doing 50 mpg (5.7 L/100 km) according to the screen, but in reality it's around 47 mpg (6L/100 km). On full highway trips it comes down to 55 mpg.
I've recently changed rear pads and rotors myself because I had the tools you mention, which are in fact needed for most of brands. As you can see in the picture, I'm not paying a lot of attention to the car and its working fine with 240.000 km.
Oil filter is a pain in the ***, yes.

Thanks for your advices. Two more tasks added to the pending list:
- clean the EGR
- and replace the gearbox oil because I think it's still factory fluid :cry:
 

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