Tc's 960 Thread

**Tomcat** · Thursday 27th January 2011, 21:17

That'll be because yours isn't a 6 cylinder.

**Tomcat** · Thursday 27th January 2011, 21:56

Originally Posted by mk3phill

if its anyhelp my 960 gets 20-22mpg around town.. 25on a run.. my old t5 got 17-20 around town 35 on a run.. the 6cyl's are very thirsty engines

Mines averaging about 17, though that's very,very approx. Must admit that it goes a lot better now than when I first got it, thank god for these learning Ecu's lol.

**AndysR** · Saturday 29th January 2011, 12:59

Originally Posted by Tomcat

Hard to say to be honest, I've not actualy sat down and calculated how much it's using,also the cost of petrol has rocketed recently so that's not helping, certainly feels like it's worse than the 850...

Oh dear... I think it's safe to say were all feeling the pinch with the increased petrol prices. My work commute cost has increased by a 3rd

**Tomcat** · Saturday 29th January 2011, 13:23

My trip to work and back is just under 50 miles a day...so that's costing me around £60, not including petrol for the weekend.

**lewton** · Thursday 3rd February 2011, 10:53

Was offered a low mileage 3 litre 960 yesterday for 150 quid,the owner had hit a lump of granite with one of his front wheels and had decided not to repair it,apart from that the car was near enough mint.Absolutely gutted that there is this big lump of water between here and the mainland!

**Vikingxl** · Saturday 5th February 2011, 21:04

Have you finished this yet?

**mk3phill** · Saturday 5th February 2011, 21:06

i done some more digging and found why the 6cyl use so much fuel... its semi-sequential injection! 2banks, thats on the motronic 1.8,.. so we can thank bosch for chucking fuel down the exhaust haha the later M4.4 are sequential so shouldnt be as bad!

**Tomcat** · Friday 25th February 2011, 19:50

Got a nice parcel in the post today from the U.S. bought an outside temp guage from a guy on turbobricks, going to fit it this weekend...

**p fandango** · Friday 25th February 2011, 19:59

Originally Posted by Tomcat

Got a nice parcel in the post today from the U.S. bought an outside temp guage from a guy on turbobricks, going to fit it this weekend...

i guess you stick it to the wing mirror

lol

**Tomcat** · Friday 25th February 2011, 20:41

Lol, yeah something like that.

Oh also think I've finally found a place to make my spacers so I can fit the T5 front struts I've had lying around for ages.

**mk3phill** · Wednesday 2nd March 2011, 00:06

Originally Posted by Tomcat

Got a nice parcel in the post today from the U.S. bought an outside temp guage from a guy on turbobricks, going to fit it this weekend...

was this not a standard fit item? ive got one on mine but some fool has cut the sensor wiring to bits. from what i can see though it uses same external sensor as 850's

apart from the spacer are there any other issues for installing the 850 struts?

**Tomcat** · Wednesday 2nd March 2011, 06:27

Yeah the temp guage was an optional extra,mine went in ok but the wiring for the sensor is knackered. From what I've read it's just the spacers that's needed to allow the shorter 850 struts to be fitted.