I'm not sure what type of ignition it has, but it's definitely the later type of engine with electric fan, large circular air filter, etc and we were told to run it on unleaded following the replacement. I have no idea what happened to the original engine, since I wasn't responsible for it's replace...

Tom wrote:

SteveP wrote:A 340DL 4 speed can do an indicated 100mph..

It can't, and trust me, I've tried...

I hit 95 once going down the M4...

Why do manufacturers these days believe people will want A/C instead of a sunroof though...? I like sunroofs, and Aircon is really not all that useful in the UK :( The 345 still runs (Haven't had any petrol for a while, so I had to pick up a can to start her again) - in fact, after a month and a hal...

Well, it's a project, and I'm not giving up on it yet. It's only got 46k on the clock, and there's very little rust on it. I'll try and reverse it out of the garage and take some pics of it sometime over the next couple of weeks. It could make a good first car for my gf, otherwise I'm sure somebody ...

It's a 1.8TD producing a grand 'ol 88bhp... lol

It's got 75k on the clock and cost just over £1700... It's also more expensive to insure than the volvo, being group 9.

If you're wondering why I havent been around much lately, I have something to confess: Sadly, I've got an 'R' reg Mondeo TD Ghia now... Not the fastest car (in fact, I reckon power to weight is worse than my 1.4 345, which is much lighter and only ~15bhp less powerful!) but it's comfy, quieter, more...

So that's not 'shortest possible route' navigation then

You won!

Nah... OCWorkbench, it's a Singaporean overclocking site run by a megalomaniac.

Damn... I'll never catch up with my score on OCW (that was 5k+ posts).... I have 500-ish on my own site and about the same on another techhy-type site. I don't have the time to be spamming these days though

I like.... goth, metal, industrial, rock, punk, hard house, techno, trance, hardcore dance/freestyle, drum'n'bass & classical for those moments when one needs to concentrate (but not operatic stuff - that gives me headaches) and Eminem (since he falls into Hip-Hop/Rap, which I usually hate). As for ...

Not if the model could originally have come with alloys, surely?

This goes beyond bad luck... Almost sounds like a curse to me...


Oh well, best of luck Hugh!

mine's dark_rayven... I see only 1 360GLT alloy. If it were a whole set, I'd have it, since those are the squarish ones that I reckon would look ok on a mk.1.

Saw some 850 alloys a few days ago, not much good to us though, I think?

Is a 1983 model the last of the mk.1s, or the first of the mk.2s? I saw a really battered mk.2 345 in blue today, but I haven't seen any other 345s, let alone mk.1s recently (beside that one on fleabay in Cornwall, which I would've bought if it weren't so far away). I'm starting to wonder how hard i...