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If you do a search on here of engine issues with D3's you will find the vast majority of them are for diesels and the cost of fixing them can be horrendous believe me.
The good old story's of diesels doing a 1,000,000 k's or just being run in at 100,000 k's in many cases no longer apply to the new highly stressed engines with very complicated injection systems. If that was the case why are 90% of the issues on here relating to diesels?
The water separator that Davis LR offers for diesels is a very good investment, my D3 has suffered from bad fuel and if I had bought one when I first got the old girl then I wouldn't have had any issues nor the very expensive fix that it will eventually need.
Diesels are fine if you buy them knew and get lots of warranty, second hand without warranty you are taking a gamble. Yes the 2.7 is a great engine and tows easy when going well but you will wish you didn't own one if you have a decent problem. Where as You will struggle to find many complaints about the petrol D3's blowing up or needing expensive repairs.
I'm in the market for a good reasonably priced V8 D3 to replace our D2a, but in the last six months the price second hand for the V8's has gone up, maybe because people are starting to do the maths on fuel costs versus purchase and on going maintanance costs and have worked out how much of a bargain they were.
Cheers,
Terry
Could this be that 90% of D3 owners have diesels??? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TerryO
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Big block engines also fluctuate in price with the petrol price, not that expensive at $1.20 per litre but when it goes up to $1.50+ per litre ouch!!!!! Take it from someone who had one. Oh, and don't be fooled by the whole LPG con as the car is tuned differently to petrol causing it to consume more gas per litre than just petrol and the direct injection gas systems that everyone will recommend they will not take into account the petrol usage you will have, again take it from someone who was fooled!Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco4SE
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Julian
Oooh, statistics, you fickle mistress you ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco4SE
I'm not so sure that 90% of D3's sold here were diesel.
There are 149 D3's for sale on Carpoint, 66 are diesels.
While this is not exactly a scientific way of working out the percentage of petrol v diesels D3's sold in Australia it would more than likely indicate that there were more petrol engined D3's sold in Australia than diesels.
Cheers,
Terry
No it would more likely indicate that 83 people are desperately trying to offload their fuel guzzling, unpopular, Petrol versions. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by TerryO
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There have been a couple of failures of 4.0 petrols listed on this forum.
Diesel is the way to go - drove from Canberra to Newcastle this week in my 2.7 TDV6 - drove at 110 kph and the computer showed 6.9l/100km (40mpg) - realistically 7.9l/100km (35mpg) - try that in your petrol gas guzzler.
Driving back in much hotter weather and a head wind and still managed 7.2l/100km (indicated).
Garry
Spot on Tombie. Not too many want petrols. That's why there are so many still for sale compared to the diesels.
Most of the diesels have already been sold ;)
Cheers, Craig
I have the V8 petrol and love it. I see exactly where Tombie & others are coming from with the range, round town I'm getting ~400k's to a tank, on the open road it's about 550k's. Bear in mind I'm carrying a rather un-aerodynamic roofrack & spotlights though, they do make a *huge* difference to the lack of economy (4mpg extra without the rack). In lowrange offroad, it's eye watering how much fuel it can get through but hey ho, not much I can do about that. When I bought it, I paid £12k less than the equivalent diesel at the time, that accounts for a lot of fuel. It's done 78,000 miles now and other than a running fault that had LR stumped for a year, the only issues the engine has had were generated by the LPG conversion I had on it in the UK. Now I've ripped that off I've not experienced any engine problems. Once we start using it for extended travel I'll probably end up fitting a long range fuel tank, that's really all it needs. I'll also rob a bank to keep it filled :p
If / when the engine expires I'll likely order a JE built performance unit, but hopefully that wont be for a while. Having said that, if it was possible to convert it to diesel, I'd probably do that. Somehow I don't think it would be quite that easy though !!