To many kays and not first colour choice
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To many kays and not first colour choice
Fair enough on the colour, we all have our preferences... though I'll never understand wanting to have a black car in Australia, it's just too hot.
Re. the kays, these engines will go for half a million no problems. Mine is over 300,000 and pulls strongly, no smoking or funny noises. Don't be put off by big k's if the rest of the car is sound.
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Agreed, the TD6 is a strong and long lived engine. Mine is coming up to the same KM as this one and runs like a clock and as good as the day it was made. I expect it is only half way to the grave with these KM on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Strangerover
What color is that one? Is it silver or gold??
It's a metallic silvery gold :) which changes depending on the light. Also seen it referred to as blenheim silver and white gold tho' they might be entirely different colors??? My car in case you don't pick up the common user name.
Now please forgive me but the gearboxes in these, are they the GM 5 speed built in France? The ones that are also used in the X5s? 5L40E or something?
I'm wondering whether a later model VE Holden uses the same box? If so, you would have a cheap source for said box and bypass the people who love to gouge the LR owners.
EDIT: I'm wrong. ZF5HP24. There goes that idea.....
The diesel has the 5L40E. My understanding is that sadly you can't just throw a GM unit in, though some of the now upgraded bits from them can be used.
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Yeah, there are some bits that can be used from the commodore box, but as mentioned, not able to swap it entirely or even partly.
So is there anyway to improve the box at all?
I assume the issue with some sort of replacement box is trying to get all the computers to talk together happily?
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Yep, plenty of ways to improve the box, although it has some fundamental flaws. And yes again on the computers - once somebody does it once and reverse engineers the code and builds a box that translates the data, I'm sure there would be plenty of others jump on it - if that ever happens.Quote:
Originally Posted by Disco Muppet
As for me, if mine ever ****s itself again, I'll be looking at a manual conversion. I think it's possible, but wouldn't be cheap - but neither is a rebuild on the auto.