Originally Posted by
4wheeler
The December 2010 Transit I have for work has just hit 215,000 km. It has the 2.4 engine. Overall it has been reliable. Still has the original EGR. The serpentine belt lasts 100,000 Km and needs to be replaced which takes 10 minutes. Crank shaft pulley died at 130,00 km. Rubber bonding disintegrated. Not cheap but not too hard to replace.
The inlet manifold gasket developed a leak which caused a few error codes and rough running until replaced. The Ford dealer was going to replace the turbo and/or injectors (fault codes logged in system) but I pointed out that the occasional rough running had only been happening since the leak was evident. 20,000 km later, everything has been fine with rough running resolved. It sometimes throws a turbo under boost/over boost code but I just clear it and continue on. Probably happens every 10,000km. I used to worry but have now got used to it. Oil is changed every 15,000km as per service schedule. Luckily my Defender does not eat brakes like my Transit. I don't have to add oil and fuel consumption is consistently 10.8l/100km for a LWB high roof Transit weighing in at 3.2t. Better than my 2.2 Defender!
I will keep an eye on my Defender coolant hoses (there are lots of them) as the Transit hoses wear on each other, even keeping in mind the vehicle drives on 100% bitumen. Once again, I had to point this out to the dealer and ask for a number of them to be changed otherwise I might have had a blown engine if the hoses had burst. Everything is so squashed in around the engine bay that this type of wear is almost a certainty.
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