Trip across france, spain, italy and....

[the dutch guy]

...guess what.


So far nothing broke.



Score so far is 2100km driven, twice over the french-spanish mountains with 12% hills running on the cheapest crap that they sold as diesel and it has not missed a beat so far.

When the bloody thing works it should be praised instead of only complaining when (not if) it breaks. Especially with vans like mine that has 290k (km) on the clock.

[ned]

Your not far behind me with my 330,000 km on the clock (205,000 miles) N

[Cheese Monkey]

Yes mate just done 4000 miles in mine over France,Switzerland and Italy. Loads of mountain passes

[adam75pl]

Your not far behind me with my 330,000 km on the clock (205,000 miles) N

Yeah Ned but his van is running... And running well

[ned]

Your not far behind me with my 330,000 km on the clock (205,000 miles) N

Yeah Ned but his van is running... And running well

Yeah that true but the phoenix will rise again And then they'll be no stopping me, literally my brake are a bit iffy N

[Cheese Monkey]

I wish I could say nothing broke on mine. Headlight connectors burnt out, sld weather strip keeps falling off, a new loud engine knock when it's hot and being solidly worked going up steep hills in 2nd/3rd gear, occasional flat spot on full throttle, clattering front suspension/steering and a loud creaking off the o/s

But nothing major

[oldtimer47]

well mine wasnt across France and so on, but I did just under 10,000 klm in 8 weeks, in Australia, went from Brisbane up to the Cairns area, then back down a bit, across into the Northern Territory, down through Alice Springs, out to Ayers Rock and other places, then down towards Adelaide, up through Broken Hill through Western NSW, then home, mine went like a charm, didnt miss a beat on the trip, was getting up around 12klm per litre at times, wasnt in a hurry, no great Mountain passes, we only have some big hills here in Australia, very happy with mine.
Oldtimer

[MK7 user]

When the bloody thing works it should be praised

Alright dutchie.

To be fair....there are lots of threads on the board pointing to the fact that WHEN they are running nice they are great vans....but the fact is, a Mk6 Tdci comes with a guarantee of pump & Injector problems.

[MK7 user]

well mine wasnt across France and so on, but I did just under 10,000 klm in 8 weeks, in Australia, went from Brisbane up to the Cairns area, then back down a bit, across into the Northern Territory, down through Alice Springs, out to Ayers Rock and other places, then down towards Adelaide, up through Broken Hill through Western NSW, then home, mine went like a charm, didnt miss a beat on the trip, was getting up around 12klm per litre at times, wasnt in a hurry, no great Mountain passes, we only have some big hills here in Australia, very happy with mine.
Oldtimer

G'day oldtimer.

That's what I call a Road Trip

The economy's not bad at 12ltr/100klm (23.54 mpg) I've had worse than that out of a heavy loaded panel van with the hammer down.

What's the standard suspension like on the corrugations you get on the dirt roads

[oldtimer47]

hi, the economy was good, but I was just cruising along, 85 to 90 kph, a lot of the time with a tail wind, I was happy with it, 200k plus between fuel stops at times, hardly any traffic, sometimes it was 5 mins between on coming traffic.
re on the dirt, I dont know, I didnt need to go off road, good asphalt roads all the way. just a long way between towns. but the scenery and the people was worth it.
Oldtimer

[ned]

I going to defend the mk666 tdci,

I have said it before and I'll say it again there is no such thing as an unreliable engine just unreliable owners.

Lets say you bought a mk666 tdci from new, serviced it regularly, dealt with every dtc as it arose, and generally looked after it then it would be going strong, whereas if they get neglected more problems arise causing a bigger drama.
Lets not forget the Delphi common rail system was new technology in the mk666 that most people didn't understand how it worked and over looked the faults or could diagnose them, this wasn't help with it not being obd2 compliant, so I theory if 1 injector was dying not many places could diagnose the it untill all 4 failed.

Lets not forget the denso system of the mk7, is it better than Delphi? How many time have your read, PRV, SCV, pump and pilot learn, injector clamps and bolts, copper washers, hunting, more people understand the common rail system when the mk7 came out so they could diagnose and fix the fault instead of guessing what was wrong.

Now it seems the semans system in the custom and mk8 are starting to having a few issues.

So was/is the mk666 tdci really as bad as the stick it gets, or is it the underdog, the one everyone picks on, the one that in the right hands will come out fighting and clock up the miles and just keep on keeping on.

Probably not if the diesel haters have anything to do with it N

[the dutch guy]

As far as my experience goes (we had 38 mk6's replacing the mk5's) and the only real issues we had (apart from the c***s behind the wheel) were the gearbox linkages that broke. The engines were virturally indistructible. They were a LOT more reliable then the VW counterpart we also had a dozen of. Those were horrible unreliable [insert expletive here]. Personally i would choose the ford over the transporter anyday, at least with the ford you knew you would get back.

This is why i am typing this from a french vineyard camperstop 40 miles from the italian border on my mobile leaning against my mk6.

[adam75pl]

This is why i am typing this from a french vineyard camperstop 40 miles from the italian border on my mobile leaning against my mk6.

You know the rule: photo or it didn’t happen;)

[MK7 user]

This is why i am typing this from a french vineyard camperstop 40 miles from the italian border on my mobile leaning against my mk6.

You know the rule: photo or it didn’t happen;)

+1....piccy or it never happened.

[MK7 user]

I going to defend the mk666 tdci,

So was/is the mk666 tdci really as bad as the stick it gets, or is it the underdog, the one everyone picks on, the one that in the right hands will come out fighting and clock up the miles and just keep on keeping on.

Good to see that you are passionate enough about it to defend it.

There must be knocking on a handfull of you proving that the Mk6 FWD Tdci is much more reliable than the 2.4 RWD.

The FWD suffers Injector problems not seen with the Tddi Bosch Injectors, so in that respect Yes, the Delphi system is a lot less reliable....make no mistake the 2.4 is a proper dog, regarded as being the worst fuel system on any van in the Stratosphere (that's a big place dude).

For all it's problems, the Denso system is head, shoulders & torso better than the Delphi.