remap for fuel economy? Isn't it expensive just to do a remap for fuel economy? and you might not get what you'd be hoping for, wouldn't it be cheaper to get it gas converted?
I'm a 4th year apprentice, I also have another job, completely independent. I manage 250km to 270km for half a tank on average and the car is my daily, it's hell unpractical as a daily, but I love the car to bits reason being it offers soo much and for me they outweigh the cost of running the thing and I'm not just talking fuel economy. If I wanted a car that was big, fuel economic and would save more money compared to a PNM35 I'd be looking at probably a diesel wagon or an SV6 or something...
You'd probably save more by spending 100$ a week at Coles or Woolies and use the fuel discount rather than a remap or get another NM35 as the savings of fuel you get over a year you can budget for tubz? Then next year with the same savings you can get a couple AFMs as spares.
Not trying to talk you out of PNM35's but one thing they ain't is economic .
But on to the mechanical issues, the only issue I've had was a split CV boot, the rear diff was weeping but that was just a blocked breather I was told, and I've replaced the radiator. The car has almost done 144k kms and I've probably put about 10k kms on myself.