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(Message started by: gaz01gaz on Oct 12^th, 2005, 8:57pm)

Title: tdi on ebay...
Post by gaz01gaz on Oct 12^th, 2005, 8:57pm

hi all,, ANYONE SEEN THE TDI ON EBAY ITEM NO.4582149003...NOT SURE ABOUT THE TDI'S PROBLEMS,,,CAN ANYONE ADVISE PLEASE,WHAT WILL THEY DO THE GALLON ??????ANYONE KNOW.....

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by Dave on Oct 12^th, 2005, 11:53pm

Hi Gaz...

Parkers says the manual Ghia TDI estate does 34 MPG average.. pretty good!
125bhp, 0-60 in 10.8 seconds, 293Nm of torque (12 more than the cosworth), top speed 120mph. Insurance group 15.

Sounds good.. see what honest john says about the diesels. There are legends in my town of diesel Granadas covering over 700,000 miles though.. so they can't be bad.

Dave

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by gaz01gaz on Oct 13^th, 2005, 12:00am

cheers dave..any probs you know of with this engine

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by Dave on Oct 13^th, 2005, 12:22am

Honest John says to make sure the 75 amp alternator on a diesel has been replaced with a 120amp, as the 75 is not up to the job, and is very costly to change. Also: 'On 2.5TD replace PCM and two vacuum switches which cause engine to overfuel, sooting and damaging the MAF.'!

D

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by scorpio_man on Oct 13^th, 2005, 5:43am

hi there

you need to remember that there is 2 versions of the tdi engine. the later one had 125bhp and the different alt.
http://www.fordscorpio.co.uk/difference.htm

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by gaz01gaz on Oct 13^th, 2005, 8:00am

cheers everyone,,i would imagine being an aug 1997 and the way it drives it will be the later 125 bhp ,,pulls like a train through 1800 rpm - 3500 rpm ..not sure about alternator though there is a lot in the history about failed batteries,so maybe was upgraded...thanks all who have replied...last question,,,are these tdi's a strong reliable engine if serviced correctly ???...gaz

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by LiverpaulH on Oct 13^th, 2005, 8:31am

I do like my 2.5Tdi, but it's the old one and definitely is suffering from the overfuelling problem at the moment as my MPG has dropped from 34(ish) to 28(ish)! Ouch. Looks like something to get sorted.

It's on 170,000 at the moment, which isn't a great deal for these engines.

Paul

Title: Re: tdi on ebay...
Post by mazzy_j on Oct 13^th, 2005, 11:26am

My daily drive is an N reg Ultima saloon td with 206,000 miles on the clock, same colour as on the one on ebay. Full service history it still runs sweet, loads of low down torque means easy sideways driving if you so wish in the wet :) averaging out a typical week of 240 motorway miles and 70 miles in town i get 45mpg easily, dropping down to 35 when i'm heavy footed. Worst i've ever got is 10-15ish mpg and that was when i was rallying with my foot to the floor for 1 1/2 hrs.

Engine wise i've heard of pushrods popping out but this hasn't happened to me, the only thing i've had to replace so far is the alternator at a cost of £90 for a new one from my FMD, fitted by myself which took about an hour. My other 'project' scorp (on 170k miles) on the other hand suffered from when the conrod in no.1 cylinder disconnected itself from the crank, rearranging the piston and cylinder bore in the process :( this i think was simply an unlucky case as it was a recon engine and might have had bad servicing . hopefully (weather depending) this weekend i'll be taking that engine out and putting an engine from a 1997 car i bought in. only its the newer 125bhp engine and there's some extra connecter's so it should be fun.

So... well worth getting i would say if you do a lot of miles or just want a cheaper to run scorp, just so long as its been serviced properly it shouldn't be a problem at all. This engine is also in the old rangerover and Jeep Cherokee, so if ford doesn't have the bits you can always try them.

Matt