Discussion
Is it a horribly ineffective engine for some gentle off roading, like Tixover?
Can you keep the mileage around 20mpg, or is it far more thirsty?
Reliability?
After not being able to get the 110 NA diesel last year i'm now thinking that when I get back in September I will start looking at a cheap toy. Lots of the cheaper ones seem to be the 2.25 petrols. Hopefully not because they are woefully bad in a land rover.
Also, if I decide that a diesel is needed in a few years, is it s reasonably straightforward swap?
Dave!
Can you keep the mileage around 20mpg, or is it far more thirsty?
Reliability?
After not being able to get the 110 NA diesel last year i'm now thinking that when I get back in September I will start looking at a cheap toy. Lots of the cheaper ones seem to be the 2.25 petrols. Hopefully not because they are woefully bad in a land rover.
Also, if I decide that a diesel is needed in a few years, is it s reasonably straightforward swap?
Dave!
The two and a quarter is a great engine IMHO. Great off-road (providing you have skill and don't just rely on hitting everything flat out and hoping for the best!), last forever and sound just tight in a Landy. I had one that had 400,000 miles on it and still did 19mpg. I would much rather use a 2.25 petrol than one of those horribly underdeveloped engine oil burning 2.5TDs.
The 2.25 in both diesel and petrol are pretty good engines especially for just pottering about off road.
As has already been said the 2.5 td is under developed and not especially reliable at the best of times. Having said that there are probably tens of thousands of people that have never had any issues with them
Rgds
Pete
As has already been said the 2.5 td is under developed and not especially reliable at the best of times. Having said that there are probably tens of thousands of people that have never had any issues with them
Rgds
Pete
The 2.25 petrol in my old series 3 is great. I've never calculated the mpg but it's probably low 20s, and at tickover it's very quiet by any standards let alone an old Landie. It's powerful enough to keep up with modern traffic even if you can't overtake much of it.
I think you'd have to be doing a lot of miles in one to make the fuel saving from the diesel worth the loss of power or refinement over the petrol. And a friend with a similar car to mine is getting an LPG conversion which will make the running costs even better.
Mine's had a lot of use this year, especially over the winter, and (touch wood) not a single issue.
Ruari
I think you'd have to be doing a lot of miles in one to make the fuel saving from the diesel worth the loss of power or refinement over the petrol. And a friend with a similar car to mine is getting an LPG conversion which will make the running costs even better.
Mine's had a lot of use this year, especially over the winter, and (touch wood) not a single issue.
Ruari
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