Well got back yesterday from 16 soggy days in Cornwall.First time i've towed the caravan with the 406 and it did just under 1300 miles (600 odd towing at 55-60 mph) and it never missed a beat,it managed with the 1350kgs caravan and the car fully loaded with 2 dogs in the back reasonably well although on the A361 to Barnstable up one of those long inclines i had to drop to 3rd at one point and the oil temp shot up to 130 ish degs and the coolant temp started to creep up from the usual 90 deg towards the red so i put the heater and blower on full and that dragged the coolant temp back down but the oil took longer to drop back to 120 ish,if i saw a big hill coming i just whacked the heater on before we got to it!
Overall it managed 38-40 mpg combined towing and solo which i thought was very reasonable as the bmw only did 22-25 mpg last year on the same hol.Apart from the rubbish weather and me breaking my toe on the last day the hol was o.k. but might head for east coast next year as Cornwall will have floated away by then!
2011 "11" Mondeo TXS est 200ps in Grey
2003 "53" 110 hdi Executive Estate in Diablo Red
2001 "51" BMW 530i sport in Black
2012 "62" Yamaha XT1200
1974 "M" Honda CB500/4
1994 "M" Kawasaki Zephyr 1100
1998 "S" Honda XRV 750
I've found that i'm getting an average of 32mpg with the van i'm quite happy with that, it was indeed soggy down that way although i didn't go down as far as Cornwall. I even had to move my van on Wednesday it was belting it down and by the time it took me to have a shower i had about 3 inches of water in my awning to come back to.
Even that didn't spoil my holiday i was wading around the awning with flip flops on and a smile on my face, the puddle was still there when we left yesterday... Someone took pics of it i'll see if i can find them.
2000 W 2.0hdi 110 7 seat estate Blue.
And this glue is for my submarine not for putting up you're f*c*ing noses, and dont think i dont notice cos i do... Buy your own f*c*ing glue!!! Fatty Lewis Twin town 1997.
Sounds like the 406 did OK, (hope your holiday wasn't too much of a wash-out). If you bear in mind that the oil is effectively cooled by the water, it stands to reason it must always be a bit hotter. My oil temp creeps up whenever the dogmobile's doing anything 'over & above' that which Pug originally intended, but so far, I've never seen any increase in the water temp.
2002 HDi 2.2 Exec Estate, (2008-12) (wonderful)
2003 HDi 2.2 6-speed Exec Estate (2012-19) (also a gem)
2009 Citroen C5 2.0 HDi VTR+ Estate (godawful heap)
2008 BMW E91 330i touring (great fun - murdered by a reversing SUV)
2007 BMW E91 325i touring (slower smoother quieter)
Sorry about the weather - it's a luck of the draw in the uk
Coolant temperature gauges are deliberately slow to show changes - otherwise we'd be driving around scared to death a colleague of mine had some live data frigged up in his Jap turbo-thing and the coolant was seen to shoot up to 105deg when pressing on but the good old temperature gauge on the dash was oblivious
When the 406 gets too hot the BSi drops the a/c to free up the load on the engine - mine never did this but then again the a/c didn't ever work long enough to test it
Cars in my care:
2021 Kia Spottage 1.6 Pez Turbo Dual Clutch Gearbox Trickery
2013 Renner Twingo - donkey work
The A361 starts about 7 miles from where I live. Its a bugger when you get onto the moors with some of the hills! Still its got of loverly views especially around stoodleigh. Rose Ash is a village near by where my Collie came from!
scotty73 wrote:
Even that didn't spoil my holiday i was wading around the awning with flip flops on and a smile on my face, the puddle was still there when we left yesterday... Someone took pics of it i'll see if i can find them.
Has promised earlier.
Indoor pool.
Outdoor pool/lake.
Has you can see the outdoor pool/lake also had it's own gnome... Good times.
2000 W 2.0hdi 110 7 seat estate Blue.
And this glue is for my submarine not for putting up you're f*c*ing noses, and dont think i dont notice cos i do... Buy your own f*c*ing glue!!! Fatty Lewis Twin town 1997.
classy us Welsh when we sited it on the Saturday there was a bit of a pothole to the left of the step so i bunged 12 cans of boddingtons in the fridgadaire and used the box to fill the hole... it was never seen again until the monsoon came then it just floated away with a full crate of bow and john smiths.
Later salvaged and consumed of course.
2000 W 2.0hdi 110 7 seat estate Blue.
And this glue is for my submarine not for putting up you're f*c*ing noses, and dont think i dont notice cos i do... Buy your own f*c*ing glue!!! Fatty Lewis Twin town 1997.
Reminds me of our trip to the 24h race at Nurburgring some years ago - we pitched the tent on the only bit of ground that didn't audibly squelch when walked on, fearing more rain. Needn't have worried, it froze every night and started snowing at one point.
Two weeks later it was 28 deg. for the F1 GP.
2002 HDi 2.2 Exec Estate, (2008-12) (wonderful)
2003 HDi 2.2 6-speed Exec Estate (2012-19) (also a gem)
2009 Citroen C5 2.0 HDi VTR+ Estate (godawful heap)
2008 BMW E91 330i touring (great fun - murdered by a reversing SUV)
2007 BMW E91 325i touring (slower smoother quieter)
a colleague of mine had some live data frigged up in his Jap turbo-thing and the coolant was seen to shoot up to 105deg when pressing on but the good old temperature gauge on the dash was oblivious 
