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Re: The van mk2. Replacement sourced.
I've driven them with NA diesel & TD power. The NA was just a horrid thing, the TD was kind of funny as it was a horrid car utterly unable to handle the torque of the engine - 3rd gear wheel spins mid roundabout or corner were quite common.
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Re: The van mk2. Replacement sourced.
Mines a na 1.9 but by this year the xud had been replaced by the dw8 which is a replacement for the xud. It seems a better engine than a na xud to be fair.
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Berlingo has been a twat to start in the cold weather past few days. Thick exhaust smoke and smelling of unburnt diesel even after 8 cycles of glow plugs and diesel knock for a few seconds until idle has smoothed out. Brought some new glow plugs today. Complete twat of a job as they are under the inlet banana. Managed to snap a pipe to the egr too. Handy as I planned to disconnect and seal up the vac lines. Tested ohms on 4 plugs and 3 were out of range. that would explain alot. The 3 were also thick with carbon,1 was a dark grey. Usually a sign they arent working great. Fitted new ones and fired up a treat with no clag. Yay
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Re: The van mk2. Replacement sourced.
And anyway you bunch of tossers, my workmanship on my vehicle has never been a problem. It's my bad run of luck with vehicles failing not work I've done.
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Re: The van mk2. Replacement sourced.
Insurance settled. 580 on escort because of historic cat c marker from 2016 and it's now a cat B. would have got more if not for the historic marker. At least its settled.
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Re: The van mk2. Replacement sourced.
About ten times the price I'd imagine they'd pay out for it, so can't complain.
Isn't it a profit on buying it?
Isn't it a profit on buying it?
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