i30 Owners Club
GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: BarryD on March 25, 2011, 12:55:24
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Having owned my i30 now for almost am month, I am very happy with her - DPO (dumb previous owner) seemed to tail gate a lot as I've had to tidy up quite a few stone chips, but maybe they were just unlucky.
3 Questions / requests for information:
1. She's got 24k miles on the clock, and was serviced just before I bought her around £22k miles. Now the oil is pretty black and she's a lot noisier than my old diesel Santa Fe was at idle, I am thinking an oil change would not hurt and may make her quieter. Thoughts?
2. She seems to idle around 1100 rpm, settling down to 800 after about 30 seconds whenever I pull up - is this normal? If this is indicative of slight over fuelling then I can see another improvement in MPG possible.
3. Air-Con I'm guessing the pump is electric rather than engine driven. When I turn it on there is a definite increase in noise, again is this normal? Should I not be able to hear it? Maybe if I leave it on for a week or so it will quieted down.
Overall I'm really pleased with the car, and the above niggles are so minor I would normally not mention them, but it's Friday lunchtime and I'm bored at work LOL
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Hi "bored at work" :D
1. Mine's 3 years old (61,500 miles) and is quiet at idle, though I guess you could say the noise level is pretty much subjective.
2. Mine is the same, settling down to around 850rpm after a few seconds (less than 30 seconds, that's for sure)
3. My AC is engine-driven; its pulley is always spinning with the engine but pressing the AC button causes an electromagnetic clutch to connect the compressor to that pulley. In my case that's accompanied by a slight judder of the engine as the load is taken up, followed immediately by an increase in fuel delivery to compensate for that.
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3 Questions / requests for information:
4?
1. She's got 24k miles on the clock, and was serviced just before I bought her around £22k miles. Now the oil is pretty black ........... I am thinking an oil change would not hurt and may make her quieter. Thoughts?
I wonder whether they used the correct specification/grade of oil.
Just checked mine and although it is dark it is not black
1. She's got 24k miles on the clock, and was serviced just before I bought her around £22k miles. ...............she's a lot noisier than my old diesel Santa Fe was at idle, I am thinking an oil change would not hurt and may make her quieter. Thoughts?
Mine is noisy at start up from cold but quite after about 5 minutes.
2. She seems to idle around 1100 rpm, settling down to 800 after about 30 seconds whenever I pull up - is this normal? If this is indicative of slight over fuelling then I can see another improvement in MPG possible.
Mine idles around 850/900 rpm
3. Air-Con I'm guessing the pump is electric rather than engine driven. When I turn it on there is a definite increase in noise, again is this normal? Should I not be able to hear it? Maybe if I leave it on for a week or so it will quieted down.
Mine is noisy on settings 3 and 4.