Hyundai I30 CRDI (Turbo diesel)

TURBOTAXI · 04-09-2010, 08:49 AM

Hi,

I picked one of these up as a work car last week It is white with alloy wheels.
I drove it from Sydney to Tamworth and Tamworth to Dubbo so I put 700K in it in the first two trips.

I downgraded from a Forester. It used 13l/100 (unleaded) and to get to Sydney and back I had to visit the fuel station twice. It also lacked performance and suffered from body roll.

Observations to date are that the I30 has a fair bit of poke taking off, and getting >6l/100k is almost impossible. It has the same deceptive acceleration as the Golf TDI where the engine sounds lazy, but the torque is ramping up the speed quickly.

I am hoping it loosens up and starts to go even better. I had to get the auto as that is all that is on govt. contract.

Anyone had any experience with these? tips for break in, known problems to look for or at what point they have run in and the performance is not getting any better etc..? so far I have been varying the engine speed with mixed driving I have not babied it though, I have been driving it like I would drive any car.