When driving, my turbo seems to "kick in" about 1500rpm no matter what gear I'm in. And before you say it not dress gear but mechanical gear!!

When in 1st or 2nd this has the effect of pushing me back in my seat. In 4th or 5th the pick up is instant and overtaking is a breeze.

Is turbo "kick in" factory set or can it be tweeked?

All you are feeling is Torque m8, the turbo just get's some added velosity through the ports, all diesels pull low rev's they don't like high rev's, that is why they last longer. but 255nm of Torque does not throw me back in the seat as i've got a V8 as well it pull's harder than the CRDi i30 @ 1,500 rev has over 500nm Torque you have been used to something else b4 the i30?
cheers eye :beer:

in crdi the turbo kick in around 1500rpm and ends around 3200 rpm is a low spool turbo

Hey eye30 I wouldn't take that sort of talk.. I think John is having a shot at you!

It's not your fault you could only afford a Trabant before the i30, is it :P

Rgds,

Dazz

Ahh the Trabi! Reminds me to try and find that old movie, Go Trabi Go lol :)

What is a Trabant?

Is it like a Lada?

Yeah sort of... they were made in East Germany before the wall came down.. "not quite" up to the standard of the cars made in west Germany at the same time :)

There is quite a bit about them on the net - sort of a reverse cult following...

Can't help following up on this thread...
A Trabant was a small, two-stroke, two-cylinder engine car, and yes, it was made in East Germany.
The engine had four moving parts, the gas tank was located in the engine bay (front engine and front wheel drive), the car had a top speed of about 100 km/h, and consumed about 7 l/100 km, while producing thick clouds of blue and smelly smoke, screeching with a characteristic Trabi sound. When idling, the engine noise was irregular, also a typical Trabant sound.

Originally, it had a 6 Volt electric system, later upgraded to 12 Volts.
The body was made of a paper-like material - you could glue and paint the body when it cracked in an accident.
The joke went about the Trabant factory: "How many workers do you need to produce a Trabant?" - "Three: One cutting, one folding, one gluing." Also, it was called the paper Jaguar.

At some point in time during the communist era, engineers at the Trabant factory designed a new body style, which was never produced, but interestingly, one or two decades later, a car, almost identical to this design surfaced in West Germany, and gained great popularity: the first Volkswagen Golf series.

In East block countries, a Lada was considered a top-end car in the eastern range, while a Trabant was one of the cheapest and least desired cars, along with the Polish Fiats.