peterg Posted October 23, 2006 Author Posted October 23, 2006 Andy, they're only £287+vat+fitting, I was told around £600 all in which would be much better than £5k You're lucky it's reached 120,000 miles I don't think many have without probs if what I've been told recently is true
ACW Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 The Audi Garage near me told me my old S4 engine was completely shot, both turbos seized, crank shagged after a collegue at work hit a kerb at parking speed and holed the sump, dispite me telling them that cant be so as the car was stopped staight away before all the oil had run out and I disabled the engine by removing the plug leads whilst it had been recovered by the AA and put a notice on the steering wheel. I made up an excuse to see the car to retrieve something from the glove box, and they hadnt appeared to have removed anything. Once the insurance assessor was involved its state suddenly improved from write off needs 10K spending to new sump and plastic floor £230. Ran fine for 40K after that and in the end the same garage took it as a PX. Moral - there all lying b******ds the lot of em.
Bananaman Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 Moral - there all lying b******ds the lot of em. LOL........
Yobbo Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 Lots of diesels now have inlet butterflies. Can't remember the exact reason, but my last two have had them. They are usually vacuum operated. I know on my previous car there were 4 of them in the inlet manifold and they operated the limp home mode if something went wrong and would refuse to open very far and hence deliberately strangle the engine of air. They did open or close at other times as well.
westie69 Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 Hi, Swirl flaps are there to make the inlet tract longer or shorter depending on engine load etc,they are vacumn operated by the dde control unit. I have seen quite a few of these flaps fail on 320,330,525 and 530d,s. What usually happens due to vibration of the engine the little pin comes out which holds the flap to the spindle and then the pin and /or the flap dissapear into the engine. The new manifolds are modified with little rubber seals round the flaps to stop them vibrating. The manifolds are quite easy to change,just expensive.Common rail Diesels can be a bit of a time bomb when things go wrong,injectors,pre supply pumps,turbos!! but they are just so many of them out there now so i suppose things will go wrong more often. Peter.
ljsanders Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 I was seriously thinking about buying a 330d for my daily 70 mile round trip to replace my Leon Cupra. After reading this thread, you lot have put me right off buying one now! Come to think of it, I've been totally put off buying any of the 150-200 bhp diesels now :-( Lee
a4drk Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 The 330d is an awesome car. I would highly reccomend it for you daily run around. I drove from Gatwick to Edinburgh on a Sunday evening. Took me 7 hours. Cruise control on @ 95mph most of the journey & the car averaged 41mpg. ! If i sat ay 70 the mpg was over 50......
Chasmon Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 The 330d is an awesome car.I would highly reccomend it for you daily run around. I drove from Gatwick to Edinburgh on a Sunday evening. Took me 7 hours. Cruise control on @ 95mph most of the journey & the car averaged 41mpg. ! If i sat ay 70 the mpg was over 50...... Am I missing something, but if its not reliable and cost a fortune to fix what is the significance of mpg...? Smiles per mile I'll grant you but I can't see the significance of mpg... I have a mundano - safe to say it cost £2.5k 4 years and 50k miles ago and nothing (touch wood ) has gone wrong. I don't grin that much when I drive it though
CarlR Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 QUOTE It needs 6 new injectors @ £265 each + £400 fitting.... ! So i took it away, went to another garage, they tested the 6 injectors, 3 were badly leaking & they are getting refurbed......... at only £195 each...! My MY2000 530D has had 4 of the 6 injectors replaced, 3 by the previous owner and 1 by me. Only another 2 left to go!
amc_black Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 So is our 730d at risk also??Its still in warranty so it would be great to know now if it would be wise to have it checked over....
peterg Posted October 25, 2006 Author Posted October 25, 2006 ^ problem is there isn't that much you can check, the inlet manifold is either split or it isn't AFAIK and when it does go you don't have long before bits of metal get inside the engine The new manifolds are modified with little rubber seals round the flaps to stop them vibrating. I don't know when the design was changed hence when they stopped splitting.....
Man On The Clapham Omnibus Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 Am I missing something, but if its not reliable and cost a fortune to fix what is the significance of mpg...? Smiles per mile I'll grant you but I can't see the significance of mpg...I have a mundano - safe to say it cost £2.5k 4 years and 50k miles ago and nothing (touch wood ) has gone wrong. I don't grin that much when I drive it though Spot on IMHO. I'm on my second Mundano, the first being a 1.8TD Mk1 and is currently out to grass with my daughter and has 225,000 miles on it with no major problems - ever. My current one is the TDDi (non-common rail) and has 85,000 on it. Without wishing to tempt fate, I can say that it cost little to buy and is cheap to run so it's reliability from now on is of less importance than if it were an expensive BMW et al. BTW, no cambelts (chains), and it is quite quick, too.
ljsanders Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 The 330d is an awesome car.I would highly reccomend it for you daily run around. I drove from Gatwick to Edinburgh on a Sunday evening. Took me 7 hours. Cruise control on @ 95mph most of the journey & the car averaged 41mpg. ! If i sat ay 70 the mpg was over 50...... It might be an awesome car to drive when its working, but not so awesome when it isn't!! I don't want to spend 16k on a car, then 2 months down the road have to spend 4k on a new engine. You'd expect a car like a BMW to last at least 200k miles before the engine is sh*gged. It would be interesting to find out the failure statistics for this particular problem and how common it is.
scruffythefirst Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 BMW had the nikasil liner problem a while back. They fixed most of them under warrenty but my mother discovered hers had been developing for a while - I made a fuss at bmw and they replaced the engine foc, and the only cost was some fluids. At this point the car had done 112k, was about 8 years old and had been serviced by a local specialist (lying barstewards). Worth making a fuss at bmw I would have thought.
JeffC Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 Ive sold dozens of 330d"s some with *very * big miles and am yet to have one with a problem other than aimass meter
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