cd.thomson
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| posted on 3/9/09 at 08:46 AM |
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the ford technical department quoted me 100k miles on the 1.4tdci engine without an oil change or any failures when they bench tested it so the modern
engines aren't much worse than the older ones.
on a side note, the bloke i spoke to (about putting a zetec-s tdci engine into my 1.4 ghia fiesta) was very helpful and very interesting!
eta: mine hit 130k on a heavy remap and 12 monthly oil changes before it needed a new clutch and the aux belt was squeeking. I only got rid of it
because my parents were after a new car (part-exed mine) and everything else apart from the engine broke on it!
[Edited on 3/9/09 by cd.thomson]
Craig
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britishtrident
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| posted on 3/9/09 at 02:39 PM |
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I share MikeRJ's view on this
The latest common rail diesel engines are potential money pits --- they go wrong at much lower mileages than old school diesels and when they do go
wrong it is usually expensive.
Renault diesels should be avoided at all costs, if the oil hasn't been changed frequently enough or anything other than fully synthetic oil
used they have a habit of the tiurbo disintegrating and chucking bits into the inlet manifold --- causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.
The latest Ford diesels need to be plugged into the Ford dealer computer network if just about any component is replaced on the engine. Fit a new
injector and it will run only in limp home mode until the ecu is connected to the net and the bar code used to retrieve info from Fords master
server.
Some versions of the BMW diesel in BMW cars and the Freelander are known to suffer from turbo vane problems at high mileages (version used in the
r75/MG ZT has a different turbo dosen't suffer from this).
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