VW Lupo 3L --> 2L

[Vekke]

Hi,

Just booked one way flight to Stuttgart, Germany for tomorrow. Target is to buy one sweet VW Lupo 3L for my next project. Few problems will be on that trip like I don`t speak any German but lets see how the trip goes and will the car work the whole way back to Finland through Denmark and Sweden. Well over 1000 kilometers

- I try to get the car under 3000€.
- Getting it from Germany to Finland will cost about 1000€ (Flight was already 202€)
- Taxes and registration will be about 1000€.

Target bar for this car is set to 2 liter fuel consumtion @ 100 km/h. Over 100 MPG @ 60 MPH.

So the total budget is 5000€ to get the car running on Finland. Wish me luck

Edit: Pictures from the project can be found:
https://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/...3642791&type=1
And please like my page if you have facebook account .

Edit:
Mods done so far:
3.5 bars at the tires
Toyo 310 135/80R15 front tires 7% taller gearing
DRL led lights
DIY smooth hubcaps
DIY Front grill block
DIY Smaller mirrors
DIY full smooth undertray
DIY high flow exhaust pipe, also about 7kg lighter
Radio antenna delete
Weight savings:
rear seat 13kg
exhaust pipe 7kg

[CigaR007]

Best of luck in your journey !

[Piwoslaw]

All the way to Deutchland and back? That's quite a journey! Good luck

Out of curiosity I checked the prices here, and they are in the 2000-4400€ range, so similar to what you found (most are imported from D anyway).

[Vekke]

Cheapest Lupo 3l are under 2000€ in germany but usually there are some minor faults in them. For this first 3L I try to find good one at least from technigue perspective so Full service history will be big plus.

[Mario_Marques]

Lupo 3L, one of my favourite eco cars, nice interior space from driver and rear passengers, nice looking(for this type of car), nice braking, handling with eco off is not bad.
I have recently done a turbo, intake manifold, egr and intercooler service on one lupo 3L, very nice engine, i recommend you to test the front arms, the turbo and check intercooler for leaking in the upper intercooler pipe.
But to be honnest, i dont think you can get 2L/100 unless your driving very slow at highway, its hard to tune a very well tuned car, to do that, you need to know a lot about aero and mechanic, but i dont believe in miracles.

[vtec-e]

Originally Posted by Mario_Marques

.......................its hard to tune a very well tuned car, to do that, you need to know a lot about aero and mechanic, but i dont believe in miracles.

I second that.

I've tried and tried to get my kilometerage below 3.2L/100k but cannot. Not for a full tank anyway. And i cant trust my scangauge, not with a diesel.
But it does go to show how INefficient most cars are. Which unfortunately is the majority of cars.

But, on a positive note, it also shows that there is major scope for mpg improvement if the driver is willing to cop the f*** on and stop wellying it!!

[euromodder]

Good luck !

I hope it's in good shape - especially the transmission.

[Arragonis]

Thats a neat way of getting several tanks (or maybe just one) in the fuel log from day 1...

Good luck.

[Piwoslaw]

Originally Posted by euromodder

I hope it's in good shape - especially the transmission.

Vekke, what transmission is it? I think I read somewhere that all of the 3L's had an automatic, but I've seen a few offers which claimed that it's a manual, and in 1-2 cases the picture of the interior actually suggested that is true. I also found a forum where someone described swapping the auto for a manual. It was also mentioned there that this is the only way to have a manual 3L.

[Arragonis]

+1 I thought it was an early or adapted DSG style one.

We will have to wait until the end of the road trip