BEST 2 LITRE(ish) PLODDER DIESEL .... ?? Any lovers of yr basic plodder diesel around ....? ...... fitted across a range of cars, it's said that the peugeot 1.9 diesel is one of the most sturdy and unbreakable diesel engines around (in that size range) .... ?? if that is so why do we keep hearing of all the head gasket probs to do with it ...? is it because it was once a 1.5 or 1.7 litre and instead of developing a new engine they just bored it out .... ? thereby reducing the distance between the cyls ..? I am looking for an absolutely basic 5 to 7 year old diesel car in the
2 litre range .... definitely not turbo, definitely got to be a boring and as simple as possible A to B'er.... Citroen Xara 1.9D perhaps ...? ... So ? ... any ideas on your best-last-forever boring 2 litreISH diesel engine ... (gasket problems are the absolute pits, mostly insoluble once started on the peugeot - cyl deformation as well as the head) so perhaps not the peugeot .......? .... (you always get the same excuse ...."well that's strange for a Peugeot 1.9 .... all I can think is he's been thrashing it .... it you do that you wreck any engine !")---------o0o------------- PS .... been looking on the Automart site and I can't get it to work for me ..? Unlike autotrader site (useless .... dealer cars and I want private .... the sort that USED to advertise in the local papers) it has a range facility. You put your post code in that field ... tho' it only takes the first bit (i.e. BB12 ...I am prepared to go up to 20 mile) .... so that facility is OK (if it works ?). But the two drop down boxes to the left (make and model) don't drop down .... and the page keeps coming back telling me to fill the fields in .... well I can't if it won't let me !! Maybe it is because I am still on WIN 98 ... and the page is too big .... still it does Ryanair and that's big ! Any ideas please ..? cheers ......alec