Top Speed?
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Top Speed?
When all is well with your bus what is your top speed?
What engine also?
What engine also?
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Re: Top Speed?
85 - gets a bit white knuckle after that though
I only get that speed cos mine is a tintop and almost everything in it was constructed using the lightest materials.
Its a 1.9DG - about 25,000 miles on a recon
I only get that speed cos mine is a tintop and almost everything in it was constructed using the lightest materials.
Its a 1.9DG - about 25,000 miles on a recon
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epic, not had the chance to go full pelt in mine with all running smoothly.
Mine is a 1.9 DG.
Mine is a 1.9 DG.
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Re: Top Speed?
Had 90 out of mine (well that's what the speedo said anyway). Don't make a habit of it though........
oh, and 2.1 petrol
oh, and 2.1 petrol
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They do say if you flap the wing mirrors and shift about in your seat you can do 100 but unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale.
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CovKid wrote:They do say if you flap the wing mirrors and shift about in your seat you can do 100 but unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale.
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Wound mine up beyond 65 once.
It will never happen again.... dont have a rev counter but it must have been spinning faster than a jet turbine judging by the noise...
1.6d n/a - not fast, not furious
It will never happen again.... dont have a rev counter but it must have been spinning faster than a jet turbine judging by the noise...
1.6d n/a - not fast, not furious
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Re: Top Speed?
fodtommo wrote:Wound mine up beyond 65 once.
It will never happen again.... dont have a rev counter but it must have been spinning faster than a jet turbine judging by the noise...
1.6d n/a - not fast, not furious
My trusty stead always sounds furious?
Re: Top Speed?
Usually sit at a stready 65 (dial says 70) but I have hit 75 (80 on dial) downhill on motorways
Don't make a habit of it though. Uses too much lpg and the price is only going up
Don't make a habit of it though. Uses too much lpg and the price is only going up
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if it ever did go 80 mph it would be using 80£pm
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Or fit a decent engine and you can easily see 100mph +CovKid wrote:They do say if you flap the wing mirrors and shift about in your seat you can do 100 but unfortunately no one has lived to tell the tale.
I have many a time (by mistake on a closed road!)
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I've seen 125 on the clock in my 2.1 Atlantic
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Re: Top Speed?
Don't know the exact speed since the needle touches the end stop.
Sounds like a jet engine at these speeds and have only done it a couple of times
Sounds like a jet engine at these speeds and have only done it a couple of times
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Mine will sit at 80 on the speedo on the flat but sounds rather strained. No rev counter but must be somewhere near max revs. 1.9DG on LPG.
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Re: Top Speed?
We did 70 one time down hill with the wind behine us fully loaded with camping stuff and a full tank of LPG. But I think gravity might have had something to do with it. We got 60kph on the back of a french recovery truck 2 years ago does that count. (1.9 DG High top on LPG)
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