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Old 04-05-2012, 10:18 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by mcrews View Post
the accord is a nice car
but a jetta tdi is better!
Sell the Accord and get a Civic when you get a chance. You can do all kinds of things to the Accord, but just going from the Accord to a regular Civic will get you an 8 to 10 mpg difference, and we haven't talked about the VX and other lean burn Civics that will do double what you are doing now without using the techniques outlined on the site.

The TDIs are great when they are sorted, older cars, but when they get wonky it's big aggro. And this coming from a diesel addict. A lean burn Civic will do what a TDI does with less cost and hassle.
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