Mk6 135 tdci advise

[pigroaster]

Hi guys going to look at a 135tdci look very clean and low mileage at 87k. Anything I should look for? What sort of price do they fetch?

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[Crankshaft]

I'll be the first of many to say RUST!
Look at the inner and outer sills, chassis rails, rear spring mounts, wheel arches, wings, inner wings, front steps are all common rust spots.
The mk6 tdci models don't have a great reputation for reliability

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[ned]

Are you really sure you want a mk6 135 tdci, set the rust aside for a moment and here we go,

Mk6 tdci is an evil beast that will want to kill you they are temperamental on injectors and fuel pumps, there fussy about fuel filter, if the pump packs in your looking at about £1000 in parts (new pump new injectors new fuel filter and fuel system flush)

If its been well looked after and serviced you might be OK with it, if I was going to look at one I would be taking a transit friendly code reader with me, really punish it in all gear rev it hard by doing this if there is a fuel system fault it will go into limp mode and cut out, if the coil light is flashing walk no run away from it.

I am not saying it will be a bad van but I have a 125 tdci and it either works or it doesn't.

Hope that helps
Yours a stress tdci owner. N

[blue estate]

Did any one mention
RUST
BAD INJECTION SYSTEM


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[pigroaster]

Decided not to go for it. It drove well but the gears felt very heavy to move. It had just hauled luggage around all its life. But a few cosmetic things put me of. One being a load of silicon smarmed round the windscreen.

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[ned]

Lucky escape N

[Altransit]

I believe that none of the bigger vans, LWB and Jumbo, were ever built in Southampton (I can't remember the reason!) so will probably fare better than the SWB vans for underbody rust

The Mk6 TDCI engines, however, were apparently built somewhere just outside of Hell, and are almost always worth avoiding, it seems

[ned]

Yeah I know now Mr Altransit Bloody evil they are if only I knew when I won mine on fleabay N

[stevo]

Mate of mine has just forked out £1500 on his. New pump, injectors and fuel pipe. Its an 04 top spec van that hes owned from new, sounded sweet as a nut when he got it back too.

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[pigroaster]

Wow that's a lot. Can't make up my mind whether to spend cheap or lots on my next van. Mine had been good bur I feel it'd going to start costing me dear.

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[bambi mk 1]

I believe that none of the bigger vans, LWB and Jumbo, were ever built in Southampton (I can't remember the reason!) so will probably fare better than the SWB vans for underbody rust

The Mk6 TDCI engines, however, were apparently built somewhere just outside of Hell, and are almost always worth avoiding, it seems

They couldn't get them up the slipway after dunking them in the tide before the painted them

[stevo]

Wow that's a lot. Can't make up my mind whether to spend cheap or lots on my next van. Mine had been good bur I feel it'd going to start costing me dear.

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Just have a good look round and dont settle on the first one. I looked at a few before finding mine and its been faultless. My mates tdci had been bang on until the fuel pump went. It was decided to have new injectors and fuel lines to avoid any sh*t being in the system. The fuel tank was flushed too so even though it was expensive, some of it was precautionary too.

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[ned]

Wow that's a lot. Can't make up my mind whether to spend cheap or lots on my next van. Mine had been good bur I feel it'd going to start costing me dear.

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Just have a good look round and dont settle on the first one. I looked at a few before finding mine and its been faultless. My mates tdci had been bang on until the fuel pump went. It was decided to have new injectors and fuel lines to avoid any sh*t being in the system. The fuel tank was flushed too so even though it was expensive, some of it was precautionary too.

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I think £1500 seems expensive but is quite reasonable pump n injectors are about 1k so with fuel lines and flush and labour isn't too bad , I'm in the process of collecting funds to do mine as its driving me mad cutting out. N