D2 engine any good?
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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!
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!
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