You’re welcome!

the Golf is indeed a good car but the motoring press have a bias for them based on car from years before

Jon have you had any DPF issues or Glow plugs seizing …thinking of getting the 1.6 dtec cheers in advance

74 is nuts. What an awesome engine

Fantastic!! Great car. Enjoy it

Hi, thanks, it’s now 5 months later, the weather still isn’t getting much above 10 deg. C. I’m getting anything from 63mpg to 70mpg over my 50 mile return commute of mainly country lanes plus a tiny 3 mile dual carriageway/bridge. I use the green mode, I don’t dawdle, but I don’t rag it, either, not sure whether I’m getting it quite right.These figures are also based on brim to brim filling, rather than the computer figures which are about 15 percent optimistic. Anyway, the gist of this is, the car is all the car I need. It’s quick when I want it to be, the torque being particularly impressive, it soaks up bumps that I didn’t expect it to do, it’s quiet and smooth, especially at speed and it’s roomy, with a gargantuan boot. Not wanting to compare it to the ubiquitous VW Golf, but I can’t help it…based on a hire car (Golf 1.6tdi) I had a few years back, this seems more impressive, and a fair bit quicker. Looks are dividing, but this 17 plate model looks really good in silver, sporty and with loads of toys, I’m chuffed to bits with it. The meter easily tops 71mpg, but in reality I’m getting, on average, 64+, brilliant. Thanks for the great video, very informative. Anyone considering one of these, just go out and get it, it’s a Honda, too, guaranteed reliability!

Have you had any issues with it so far?

@@MM-pb1sehi there, I’ve had it 3 years now. The only thing that has gone on it other than wear and tear is a battery. It was quick, one minute it was working fine with stop start, the next the start stop wouldn’t work too well. Stupidly I had left the lights on when I went for a 1 hour interview and the battery was dead. I bought a high power stop start battery which cost £84 on Amazon and it took me 5 minutes to replace (sad of me, I timed it!). The last MOT failed (only one so far)on a cracked tyre surface, inner, so it couldn’t be seen. I’d had two tyres recently changed on the front, so I had the two rears replaced plus two discs and pads at the rear and pads at the front. So a few quid spent, but it’s like a new car. I bought servicing with the car 3 years ago, but with issues getting around to. Poking it, I gave up on the second set of servicing and have done it myself ever since. No stamps in the book might not go down too well for resale, but I’ve already noticed that Arnold Clark hadn’t changed the air filter or cabin filter when they serviced it (possibly before I bought it too, as they were original ones with a 2016 date stamp…. And it was black!!). I’m happier with my servicing, to be fair. Re the economy of this engine, it’s unreal, Christmas 2022, my wife and I travelled from just north of Forfar, Angus to Mousehole near to Lands End, onto Aylesbury in Bucks and back to Forfar over a period of 4 days and managed a genuine 75mpg overall, incredible. So, in summary, it’s the best car I’ve had and I’ve had a few including Audis, VWs, BMWs, Fords and Toyotas, but this has been the complete package. I’ll just keep it until it dies, I think!

The oil type is fine and shouldn’t make a massive difference. I’m not sure what grade of fuel is used to be perfectly honest. Tyre pressures are 33psi. If your not getting good economy as I say in the video the first thing to look at it yourself and that’s not a criticism of you. Smooth driving and changing up early is essential to good economy. Where you drive, when you drive too. So heavy traffic and hilly areas etc. beyond that if your still struggling then check the engine air filter is clean and most importantly your brakes aren’t binding even by the slightest amount

When I get another in I will do a fuel economy test

I have a CR-Z, and I think the problem most people have, is that they don't know how to drive a hybrid for maximum fuel efficiency. It requires a different driving style to any other combustion engine. You definitely have to develop the knack for it. Get up to speed quickly, and then ease off and maintain speed with as little input as possible. I average anywhere from 5.5 to 6.5 l/100km, depending on weather and driving style. Car is definitely susceptible to headwind and rain, and if you drive it in anything other than sport mode on the motorway, you will be fighting it all the way, because it feels like it actively WANTS to slow down. Because it has a bar that show you real time fuel consumption, you're constantly struggling to find the sweet spot between keeping the speed constant, and keeping the consumption from blowing up. It's a nice car, but I do mostly motorway, so I'm thinking of getting rid of it, as I'm tired of being constantly overtaken while trying to keep the economy in check.

They are very tough and reliable with good regular servicing. Not much really goes wrong with them. We have done a couple of alternators and obviously batteries. But engines and boxes are very good. It’s all about the way the cars been kept. Performance is pretty good too and economy excellent as you can see from the video. There is loads of data on the internet Maybe look one up for sale on autotrader and go into the technical details and performance and it will give all you need

@@tommyzoo thank you very much! Yeah I can find figures pretty easily but I find that all pretty relative and theoretical, as opposed to a more organic feedback from actual owners

@@abdulshohid6298 they only Usually sound loud or diesely at lower speeds and idle. On the move and cruising they are generally quiet

Yes it’s very good on fuel but so is the 1.8 which is the nicer engine in this car

@@tommyzoo Thanks I'll look into it some more.

the menu button on the steering wheel under the volumn control allows you to display different figures and you can select average mpg. The small black button that protrudes out of the lower instrument binnacle can be pressed to select two different trip and if you hold it in it also resets it. It also can be turned to brighten or dim the dash lights !!

I’ve heard the 1.6 is much smoother and quieter. I hope so, because I’ve just bought one to replace my very quiet 2007 Honda Accord 2.0 se petrol

Whats wrong with the 2.2 apart from the clutch also the engine is really quite compared to any other diesel hatchback in the same year

@@V17END Squeaky clutches and expensive flywheels is all I know goes wrong with 2.2 Civics

@@Mr330d That's unfortunate, I thought they'd fixed the clutch and DMF issues with the facelifted eight generation.

1.6D best engine ever! i got 2.9l /100km @ 90kmh. Remove all dpf etc.