Thread: TDI or TD5? That is the question...

Originally Posted by gozzie

Thanks for letting me know about your TDI.. I have taken the plunge and am buying a 98 TDI with 113K on the clock. Service history / condition seems to support these K's. Pick it up next week.

Thanks Dave

Man/auto,price?

(I'm thinking of selling my 1998 300tdi man 190K, engine rebuilt by Murray Kingman).

Originally Posted by gozzie

Thanks for letting me know about your TDI.. I have taken the plunge and am buying a 98 TDI with 113K on the clock. Service history / condition seems to support these K's. Pick it up next week.

Thanks Dave

Congratulations Dave, the Tdi is a top vehicle and with 113 k is a baby. You have a car for long time. Enjoy it
Cheers

Originally Posted by 29dinosaur

Man/auto,price?

(I'm thinking of selling my 1998 300tdi man 190K, engine rebuilt by Murray Kingman).

Why the engine war rebuilt with less than 300 k? Something went kaput ?

Originally Posted by Chucaro

Why the engine war rebuilt with less than 300 k? Something went kaput ?

Sure did - what Murray thought was that previous owner must have cooked the head after losing water, the turkey of a mechanic that worked on it shaved it much too much, put it back together, pistons then went into head and low and behold things went belly up as bits of metal were pushed beyond the limit.... Now has nice new head, pistons, rings, bottom end done up etc, etc. Now runs really well - surprise, surprise,... instead of spewing out it's innards and sounding like a piston was going to be speared through engine. Mind you we were driving around quite nicely on only 2 cylinders with any decent compression. Nice car - anyone interested.

Originally Posted by 29dinosaur

Sure did - what Murray thought was that previous owner must have cooked the head after losing water, the turkey of a mechanic that worked on it shaved it much too much, put it back together, pistons then went into head and low and behold things went belly up as bits of metal were pushed beyond the limit.... Now has nice new head, pistons, rings, bottom end done up etc, etc. Now runs really well - surprise, surprise,... instead of spewing out it's innards and sounding like a piston was going to be speared through engine. Mind you we were driving around quite nicely on only 2 cylinders with any decent compression. Nice car - anyone interested.

Never stop amazing me the amount of butchers that work as motor mechanics.
If we were in USA the lawyers have a field day
Any reasonable good diesel engine proper maintained have to reach 400k