D2 engine any good?

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jumpinjohnson

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79 posts

217 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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Hi all... I'm looking at starting a job quite far from home that means a 100/day round trip. At the moment I've got an Audi A6 auto with the 2.0tdi engine and it's nowhere near economical enough (around the 36mpg average on the motorway).

I need something much more economical but just as big and comfortable. I've been thinking about the S80 D2... around a 12/13 plate with about 25k on the clock. My local garage have said the one thing I need to check is whether it's the Ford 1.6TDCi engine in it OR a Renault. Apparently the Renault is fine but the Ford had some real reliability issues which may or may not have been remedied in the past couple of years?

Does anyone have any guidance? I'm going to be racking up 30k/year and need something that'll be as reliable as possible. Key thing here for me though is that I need a big car (3 series size is too small), I need fantastic seats (bad lower back! ;-) ), I need auto and I need excellent fuel economy!

jumpinjohnson

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79 posts

217 months

Thursday 13th March 2014
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I've got to say that my limit for spending is around £14k (ish)... and the S80 is great value for money.

bigdom

2,072 posts

144 months

Friday 14th March 2014
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jumpinjohnson said:
Hi all... I'm looking at starting a job quite far from home that means a 100/day round trip. At the moment I've got an Audi A6 auto with the 2.0tdi engine and it's nowhere near economical enough (around the 36mpg average on the motorway).

I need something much more economical but just as big and comfortable. I've been thinking about the S80 D2... around a 12/13 plate with about 25k on the clock. My local garage have said the one thing I need to check is whether it's the Ford 1.6TDCi engine in it OR a Renault. Apparently the Renault is fine but the Ford had some real reliability issues which may or may not have been remedied in the past couple of years?

Does anyone have any guidance? I'm going to be racking up 30k/year and need something that'll be as reliable as possible. Key thing here for me though is that I need a big car (3 series size is too small), I need fantastic seats (bad lower back! ;-) ), I need auto and I need excellent fuel economy!
Its the same engine, used in ford Mazda,Peugeot, Renault,bmw mini, citroen. The missus has the s60 D2, company car, couple months old with about 7k on it now, manual seeing around 50mpg, which is well below what they think it should do, and she is no speed queen.

Large car, auto, good fuel economy don't normally go together. I'd go for the D5, much nicer, and not to much juicier. Even a 730d sees more mpg than your audi if that's all your seeing.

Tammyj

36 posts

121 months

Monday 7th April 2014
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jumpinjohnson said:
Hi all... I'm looking at starting a job quite far from home that means a 100/day round trip. At the moment I've got an Audi A6 auto with the 2.0tdi engine and it's nowhere near economical enough (around the 36mpg average on the motorway).

I need something much more economical but just as big and comfortable. I've been thinking about the S80 D2... around a 12/13 plate with about 25k on the clock. My local garage have said the one thing I need to check is whether it's the Ford 1.6TDCi engine in it OR a Renault. Apparently the Renault is fine but the Ford had some real reliability issues which may or may not have been remedied in the past couple of years?

Does anyone have any guidance? I'm going to be racking up 30k/year and need something that'll be as reliable as possible. Key thing here for me though is that I need a big car (3 series size is too small), I need fantastic seats (bad lower back! ;-) ), I need auto and I need excellent fuel economy!
If its not too late, absolutely do not go for the D2 on the S80!

The D2 on the V40 is fantastic! On the S60/V60 its good/ok, but on the S80/V70 just no!

Its got torque, but in a car that size it just doesn't work. There really isn't too much difference between the D2's actual economy (you have to rev hard) and the D5's actual economy, especially on the motorway.

Its just no good for overtaking in a car that size, the D5 will give you an immense amount of torque, good fuel economy and its proven its reliability over the years.

You will be much more relaxed driving a D5, the power is there when you need it and you won't be constantly flat out when pulling away or worrying about overtakes.

You can pick up a D5 with decent milage at a very reasonable price as well, and if you look hard enough, you might just find an exec model with the massaging seats

Tam