[Och_i30]

Hello to all from yet another Scot, now living close to London.

We bit the bullet in December 2009 and scrapped my lovely old peugeot 306 with the squeaky suspension and received a shiny i30CW CRDi in dark grey direct from Slovakia.  By luck we ended up with the 2009.5 model with 6 speed box, full spare alloy, new seat fabric, but still with the 2009 fog lights (thanks to Messrs Mandleson, Darling, and Brown).

The first month was spent battling in snow up to 8 inches deep.  The car handled it very well probably as the combination of relatively narrow 185/65 tyres  and a decent weight on the front wheels gives decent traction and the long wheelbase makes the back end less likely to overtake the front.  An ever so slight contrast to the BMWs and Mercedes ...

8,000+ miles later and the engine seems to have settled in.  The dash nows shows 55 mpg (reset about 3,000 miles ago) but the first few '000 miles we had a nervy 40 - 45 mpg.   (I'm still to check mpg by another method as I notice 80 mph on the speedo  = 75 mph on the satnav, so the distance travelled is most likely over-estimated)

Only problem so far is we have a slight rattle behind the dashboard but will post this elsewhere.
So far it's a bigh thumbs up for the i30.


 

[bumpkin]

Aye aye min, furryboots ye originally fae??

Welcome to the club mate

[Shambles]

Welcome to the club - thanks for a great intro




And that nickname you've chosen is so splendid... made me think of "och aye (30) the noo"


But then again I'm English and don't know much Scottish

[Dazzler]

Hi Och_i30 and Welcome to the club..

Wish all members did an intro post like that (some do)

Glad you are please with your CRDi - as most of us are  

The rattle behind the dash is quite common (aye have it too  )

There are a couple of "fixes" posted somewhere on here and I keep meaning to try them but never seem to get a round to it..

Look forward to more of your posts...  

[bumpkin]

Here you are Dazz

[Myowni30]

Hi Och_i30,

Welcome to the i30 Owners Club 

[Dazzler]

Jeepers .. you are more awake than me Brian... I love it 

One way of getting me to post less 

Now I've got a "round tuit" there are heaps of things i'll get sorted 

[Och_i30]

Hi all, thanks for the welcome.

Hi Bumpkin, Originally from o'er e Ord (of Caithness).  Thanks for the tuit, I could do with a few boxes of them.

Couldn't resist the Och_i.. nickname Shambles.  Maybe I'll manage to answer a question with 'och aye, the noo' some day.

Silly question:  How do I attach a picture of the i30?  I've re-sampled to a suitable size do I edit to point to the file location and name?

[2i30s]

welcome aboard. 

[Shambles]

Silly question:  How do I attach a picture of the i30?  I've re-sampled to a suitable size do I edit to point to the file location and name?

Have a ganders here

https://www.i30ownersclub.com/forum/index.php/topic,3803.0.html

[SRT Metro]

Hi Och_i30!
Welcome to the club! 

[eye30]

Welcome

[Hemmi]

Hi Och_i30 and welcome

[hipposniper]

a warm welcome from Devon..

[Och_i30]

Hi all,
What's the etiquette for posting to old threads?
I mean a year or more since last posting.

Do we continue with the old one or start afresh?
I'm interested in whether anyone's found lower noise tyres than the Hankooks but I see the thread has been dormant for a while.

[Dazzler]

Hi all,
What's the etiquette for posting to old threads?
I mean a year or more since last posting.

Do we continue with the old one or start afresh?

If it is related to the same topic I think it is ok to bump it and continue the topic (that is purely my opinion) Some recently bumped topics have created good discussions between newer members that didn't see the topic before...