Thread: V8 or TDV6 Which one is lasting best?

Log book maintenance costs big money and cost cutting has hit most of us.
The family/work car has been hit by that and often the buying of a luxury vehicle that is 5 years old costs to keep on the road. Just look at the P38's.
They were $100k when new and although a bargain buy now, they can cost a bomb to keep as the manufacturer intended.

Not sure exactly how a leased car is so different to others.
A lease is much like a loan except there is usually a ballon to be paid out at the end and many people do trade them in after their lease is up, that is correct but like a loan, you don't own it till its paid fully out.
A badly serviced leased vehicle will attract less at trade in time than a well serviced vehicle, sometimes even less than the payout.

Best advise I figure is patience and get any potential new car fully checked and have some $$ spare in a slush fund should something go wrong.

Merry xmas.

Thanks Big Guy,

right now I'm really just on a fact finding mission about how the 4.4 V8 and the TDV6 are ageing and holding together as the K's get up there over the 200k mark. Is the V8 more reliable then the diesel or vice a versa?

I just want to try and find out what is blowing up or failing and what is not.

cheers,
Terry

There is someone in the D3 UK site with 377,000 miles on his TDV6 and he tows a car trailer for a living.

The difference in finding info is going to be hard as the numbers of vehicles sold in comparison to each other are vastly different.
TDV6 takes mostly 90% of the market, Then the V8 with the remaining 10%.
This is not including the V6 Petrol as the figures would change again.

We have at 4 V8 customers at work, that i know personally that have over 200K on the speedo. Full service history & the vehicle has been faultless apart from the common ones.

Again you will probably hear more about the TDV6 being problematic only due to the numbers on the road.

Again more customers with big K's on the vehicle & i know of 1 customer who runs a business with his D3 as a tourer & has had the common issues fixed with his vehicle.

Both vehicle have similar issues & them being the 3 most common :- Ball joints, Steering Rack, EAS comp.

As said spend a little time & get the vehicle checked over. I have seen some shockers come to us with no service history, & boy some of the niggling problems. One small fault can lead to an array of messages.

Good luck, I do like the as i had one a few Easters ago & it was great, nice power, fuel economy was very acceptable for a vehicle of its size, but realy wanted the Diesel.

Cheers.

Originally Posted by sniegy

Both vehicle have similar issues & them being the 3 most common :- Ball joints, Steering Rack, EAS comp.

I assume ball joints just wear earlier than expected - what sort of Km.

Is it the same with the steering rack - is this in fact cause by the ball joints wearing out? Is the rack rebuildable or a throw away item?

I already know about the EAS Comp - I understand it is the exhaust valve that fails so it does not provide pressure but the pump itself basically Ok - I understand some parts are available - is the pump better replaced with an aftermarket one?

Garry

Originally Posted by CaverD3

There is someone in the D3 UK site with 377,000 miles on his TDV6 and he tows a car trailer for a living.

Crikey How would you put that many miles up in the UK.When I lived over there in Runcorn if I did the equivalent of Brisbane to Perth ( just under 5000K's Not Miles) I would have ended up in Egypt.

He tows things from one end of the UK to the other for living.

Originally Posted by Disco44

Crikey How would you put that many miles up in the UK.When I lived over there in Runcorn if I did the equivalent of Brisbane to Perth ( just under 5000K's Not Miles) I would have ended up in Egypt.

Egypt be a max of 15k km's.
It be 10 trips around the world actually.