Brun

Like i say - what i said was questioned by another SN user so everynight when i got home, i just noted down what i had seen.
FWIW my wife has a Fabia VRS which i assume is the 1.9pd engine??? which she's had since 30k and is now on 141k with the only problem being a leaky radiator. It does spend it's life on the motorway if that makes any difference?

chaffe

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It is a PD yep, the last of the decent vag tdi's imo, im sure they go wrong, like everything can do, but the likleyhood is a lot less. As for a leaky radiator, that is wear and tear imo, like batterys and exhausts

TonyBurns

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Well the last 1.9pd engine I saw that "failed" was 2 weeks ago, piston through the block (seems quite a common failure as things go), that was at my local garage on a 6 year old (or was it 7 year old) skoda octavia.

Tony

chaffe

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probably badly serviced/maintained, i bet your subaru would throw a rod if you ran it out of oil

TonyBurns

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Full service history afaik, my workmates did the same, 66k fvwsh and ejected the piston/rod out the block, lovely then vw decided not to warranty the car (it had the 3 months warranty on it as he only had it 2 weeks) but he took them to small claims court and they lost so they had to supply him with a "new" unit from vw....

Tony

b road blaster

well we must be the lucky ones then as my daughter had a 05 corsa 1.3 cdti and it was a good little run around never had a prob with it ever, sold it to my son who is still runing it with no probs
she now has a 52 1.9 130 vw bora with 130k on it and it runs sweet as a nut returns around 50 mpg and belive me she is bloody hard on cars
*runs of to find a big bit of wood to touch*

chaffe

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so basiacally we can come to the conclusion all tdi cars are unreliable, and dont buy one

TonyBurns

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No not really, just that vw reliability is a myth, especially their diesels.

Tony

The Zohan

I think that shows just how boring motorway driving can be especially if you are a regular which fortunately i am no longer such.

To prove a point - i would do the same - if i had the time

chaffe

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I would say all common rail diesel are "unreliable" the least reliable are those NOT using bosch injection systems, lucas for example. Also ALL modern diesels suffer commonly from turbo failure. And nearly ALL modern diesels have dual mass flywheels which will last less time than the clutch. The majority of modern commonrail diesels also use DPF's (diesel particulate filters) these are forever getting choked up by people doing short journeys, and are very expensive to replace.
Engines and cars are now throw away items, like a washing machine.
It is becoming almost imposible for most private garages to keep up with the technology required to repair most problems on a modern car, and dealers will be far too dear to repair any major problems on older cars before long.
Car manufacturers have made it this way to make money, not save the plannet. Most cars you cant even buy a rear wheel bearing for any more without buying the whole disc, bearing, hub, abs ring and sensor, where is the sence in that? the govenment wants us to recycle a few tin cans when we throw away perfectly good components like this on a daily basis.
In saying all this, buy a new car, drive it for a couple of years and move it on, there will be no reliability warrantys, even if it does have a rubbish chain drive fiat grenade engine in it, as any problems will be fixed by vauxhal under warranty. But dont expect to still have it after 182,000 miles like my old 205 turbo diesel needing only oil, filters and a few timing belts