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MY90 MY LIFE:
I LOVE MY 90 BUT A NEW JOB IS GOING TO FORCE ME INTO DOING 80 MILES A DAY IN HER! SHES A 300TDI AND WONDERED WHAT MODS CAN BE DONE TO MAKE HER BETTER ON FUEL! IS THE OVERDRIVE HARD TO FIT? WILL ELECTRIC FANS RATHER THAN VISCOUS HELP? WHAT SIZE ROAD TYRES WILL BE MOST ECONOMICAL? ITS EITHER GET IT BETTER ON FUEL OR SELL! OR TRADE MY MRS IN FOR A HORSE! (LEAST ID STILL HAVE MY TRUCK)LOL ANY HELP PLEASE!!

Muddy_Porcupine:
Well, overdrives are pretty expensive but i supose if you'r doing that many mile it could pay off eventually! I'd go for uprated intercooler (about 300 quid for the 300tdi) aparantly kandn filters are ment to help a little bit!

As for tires, im not sure on sizes, some1 else will be able to help no doubt! However, the more road biased they are, the better for fuel economy and road handling (or so they say anyway!) i.e. dont whap dirty great simex ones on as they wont do you any favours! (unless its 80 miles in thick mud lol!) Go for road tires or, if you do a wee bit off roading, all terrains would be better than mud's!

Im trying to upgrade fuel economy on my 300tdi as well, so i'll be checking back here to see other people's thoughts!

Ta, Muddy

smo:
There is nothing that you can do that will effectively reduce the fuel consumption  - things like overdrives are so expensive you need to cover about 100,000 miles before they pay back, so are totally pointless.

your best bet is buy a second car - i run a 50mpg Audi A3 diesel for work (doing 150miles to work and back each day) and have my D-Lander for playing - works out best and you can probably pick up something for the cost of adding overdrive & other mods to the landy.

Oz:
I agree with smo it is a much beter idea to get second car..

dreadnought110:
On the seconed car front make sure you do your sum's i.e Buying said car insuring,mot, tax,servicing and running repairs!! oh and depriciation looked into it more than once and they don't always add up!! if you can afford 2 cars go for it but if funds are tight do the sums i turned a job down cause it didn't work out right including travel costs...Look at this way an overdrive's around a grand a small decent car is ?? a small car that does 50mpg a well set up 90 with overdrive around 30mpg??++ don't really know the answer just thought i would throw this lot in 8)  8)

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