A quick question about turbodiesels

Oct 17, 2004 26 Replies

Yep. The transit 2000.

The front wheel drive use the 2.0l. Early ones were the duratorq di, newer ones are TDCI. Exact same engine that's put in the mondeo and focus. The rear wheel drive use the 2.4l, with the latest ones also being TDCI.

Haven't got a clue about economy, as they're all company vans and they've all got fuel cards. Plus I only fix the things.

If you wanted, I could quite easily make quite a long list of the common faults on the new transit. But unforutunetly, they're still the best of whats available.

Ah - didn't know any of the modern Transhites were RWD. I quite like Renault Masters. Cheaper as well.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

You think transits are bad. Don't even get me started about renault masters.

I've done around 10k in mine in the last few months and it hasn't given me any problems (S reg 2.5D, first of the newer shape). Fuel economy isn't great, but it's reasonable (I average 27-28mpg out of it, doing multi-drop work, engine running all the time), and it starts first time every morning and nothing goes wrong. It never gave the previous owner (who I know) any trouble at all in 6 years of ownership. Can't complain really.

Peter

-- "The truth is working in television is not very glamorous at all. I just go home on my own at night and sit alone and eat crisps."

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Moray Cuthill" saying something like:

F*ck. Is there any way of telling whether my Tranny has had the recall modifications done to it?

The original recall was over 2 years ago, and only affected certain 2.0l vehicles. From what I remember the modified turbos had a paint mark on them (think it was yellow). The early signs of failure was oil leaking around the centre joint of the turbo.

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Moray Cuthill" saying something like:

Thanks for that.

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