[email protected] wrote:
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[email protected]>, Richard Brookman
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[email protected] wrote:
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||||| Good grief ! Talk about technology going backwards. The TD5 is
||||| load of cobblers if you ask me, what a huge price to pay for a
||||| little extra on road cruising speed and a little less noise. The
||||| old TDi's are loads better at everything else and more repairable
||||| and cost effective.
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||| Having towed the same caravan with the same load over similar
||| routes through France in successive years with a 300Tdi and Td5
||| (both Discos) I couldn't disagree more. The Td5 is light years
||| ahead of the Tdi.
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||| (Both autos, so we may be talking apples and oranges.)
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|| Well I'm not arguing that the TD5 is more powerful, just that it's
|| less rugged,
Plenty about now with star-trek mileages on, and no long-term issues have
emerged (apart from the oil pump thing that was fixed early on), so I would
say they are as rugged as most. Certainly there are no inherent weaknesses
like the 300Tdi cambelt issue. Most people I have talked to have reported
them trouble-free, as the two I have owned have been.
|| particularly if you want your Land Rover to have the
|| sort of rugged usability that one might require far from
|| civilisation.
Ah, now you're talking about bush-fixability, and I would agree. Thing is,
if an engine costs more to put right (as in dealer involvement) but goes
wrong less, then it works out about even, unless you are miles from
civilisation. For me, personally, that isn't an issue, as I don't intend
going to darkest Africa in my Disco any time soon. If I were, I would be
looking for a 200Tdi or a V8.
|| Granted that's not what most Land Rovers these days
|| are required to do but it's the very foundation of Land Rover
|| integrity that should you want it to be a rugged trans Africa car
|| it's still good for it.
Agreed. It's why we love 'em. And why I laughed my testicles off when I
read Vince Cobley praising the D3 in LRO as the best Land Rover ever, when
in the same article he admitted that it had failed big time in Morocco and
had to be taken back to Solihull on a low-loader. That's no problem,
apparently.
|| <snip> I wonder if the new V6 will be more acceptable? --
|| john
Ah, now there's the question. My guess is that it will make the Td5 look
like a steam engine. In 20 years, people will be banging on about them good
old reliable Td5s, don't make 'em like that any more, just pop it on the
laptop and it's good as new. I mean, who can afford one of them Cray
supercomputers that the new ones need? This'll be the end of Land Rover,
mark my words ...
--
Rich
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