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How many miles

Postby TonyM » Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:43 pm

How many miles would you expect a well looked after 2.4td mwb engine to do ? or how many is too many ?

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Re: How many miles

Postby ake » Fri Jan 15, 2010 7:41 am

There are plenty have done over 300k
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Re: How many miles

Postby TonyM » Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:33 am

wow to the moon and back nearly .......see iam looking at a mwb and its exactly what i need but its done nearly 200k so putting me of a bit but really clean and well looked after and at the right price and has all the right bits .......its like seeing that perfect womans body without the face to realise sh*t shes over 60 :D :D

so it kinda puts you in that will i or wont i predicament :? :? :? :roll: :roll:
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Re: How many miles

Postby MinorMatt » Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:07 pm

If its been properly serviced it should be fine
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Re: How many miles

Postby bazzaa » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:10 pm

we had a m reg at work many moons ago when they got rid it had 378 thousand miles and was running fine :roll:
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Re: How many miles

Postby madmark_50484 » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:26 pm

ake wrote:There are plenty have done over 300k


and theres plenty that didnt make 100k :lol: but like said make sure its been well looked after and it should see you through fine
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Re: How many miles

Postby Altransit » Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:41 pm

bazzaa wrote:we had a m reg at work many moons ago when they got rid it had 378 thousand miles and was running fine :roll:

"M" reg would have been a Mk4/5 with the older Di engine. Tony is asking about the newer Duratorq engine as fitted in the Mk6/7 :wink:
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Re: How many miles

Postby MinorMatt » Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:09 pm

But if the engine has already got to 200K and is running well its obviously one of the good ones! :wink:
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Re: How many miles

Postby angeleye » Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:41 pm

someone who works with me run several , two with 500,000k jumbos, my own 2 major breakdowns 190,000
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Re: How many miles

Postby bazzaa » Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:49 pm

altransit i realise that now.mine has done 245.000 new engine 85k ago but still uses water im getting very dry now :wink: :wink:
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