Vauxhall 2.0 diesel how reliable? (Insignia)

[anonymous-user]

[redacted]

[Davie]

I fear you'll mostly get the usual Vauxhall haters along with stories of woe as is the way with the internet. But limited experience would suggest they're pretty average as far as a diesel goes, not great, not terrible. A friend has run one for a good few miles - couple of EGR related gremlins and injector seals / spill pipes (I think) but hasn't actually let him down, yet.

[A205GTI]

Had 2 Insignia Diesel,

1st one, 3 months into ownership steering pump exploded(Not literally but pissed oil everywhere) common problem on 1st ones. oh and the bulkhead wasnt sealed (It was one of the first ones in the uk)

2nd one was in 2015 I think was was the estate Elite, bloody comfy did 140,000 miles in 3 years including trips across europe never let me down, only annoyance was stated to sound a bit rougher and bluetooth ended up sounding like a submarine,

Driven the new one and the seats arent comfy compared to the older models.

[ZX10R NIN]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

It'll be great they're very good underrated cars, if you plan on keeping it a long while I'd shorten up the oil & filter changes as the long service intervals aren't good for the oil pick up pipe.

This is something I'd suggest on most cars to be honest but the Vauxhall 2.0d can suffer failures from this as the miles pile on.

Apart from that they're a very good used buy especially in Elite/SRI spec.

[stevemcs]

Most common issues we see

O ring on sump pick up pipe
Rear brake calipers
Glowplugs.

If you like them i'd take my chances with one of these over a Passat.

[Jamescrs]

We have maybe 5-6 of them on fleet at work and they have all been massively reliable with only basic servicing and I doubt at this point we have any with under 50k on the clock, we tend to keep them upto about 100k before they get sold off.

[LeeM135i]

Had a couple as company cars around 2013. First was a well used, white VXR spec car 140k ish miles ran well for the few months I had it but remember the suspension being really hard which made the car uncomfortable after a couple of hours.

Second was a brand new Elite which was much more comfortable. Covered 10 - 15k total in 6 months and didn't have any issues or time off the road in either. Personally think the Elite 170(ish)bhp is a cracking car for the money.

[stevemcs]

!.5's are too new for us, we don't see much that new, most of the cars through our doors are 3-4 years old or older.

[Don Roque]

So long as the oil pickup is looked after they are strong and reliable engined that should have no problem going and going.

My brother ran a 1.6 SRi or Elite spec model as a company car for years. It was really good, very comfortable and a great long distance cruiser.

[georgeyboy12345]

The engine is a very good diesel unit - it's the Fiat JTD Multijet II. Just make sure the oil has been changed annually or every 20,000 miles, whichever came sooner.

Main bits that can go wrong are the EGR valve, split turbo and intercooler pipes (cheap to replace), flywheel and clutch on manual cars getting knackered at around 80,000 miles or so - slipping and leading to a juddery engine. If you use the engine incorrectly, i.e. do lots of short <5 miles trips from cold, then expect a screwed DPF that will be expensive to replace. Everything else, such as turbo, injectors, etc are solid.

The timing belt needs to be replaced every 5 years or 100,000 miles, whichever comes sooner. If you don't it WILL snap - happened to my mate in an Alfa 159.

They can be remapped to around 220 bhp and a stload of torque, but the flywheel and clutch will only last about 20,000 miles before needing to be replaced.