McS Junior Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I'm after getting my hands on an ex-utilities 110, the sort with the rear lockers etc I've looked at both tdi and td5 ones and whilst i'm fairly happy with high mileage tdi's, i've no experience of high mileage (c.120k) td5's - has anyone any thoughts? Generally speaking, all of these 110's have been thoroughly maintained throughout so no worries there... I'm not after any scare-mongering about ecu's and electrickery - I'm a big fan of the td5 just not sure of whether it wears as well as a tdi... Cheers, Ross P.S. Anyone got any good links on where to find ex-utility 110's, preferably direct from source....? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
white90 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Southwest 4x4 sales Or auction GBmud got his from there for a good price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest diesel_jim Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Here's that place i mentioned the other day Ross, the defender center Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escape Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I know of several TD5's with 300k km or more on them. On my previous job, I got to drive a 110 DCPU with 250k km, gathered over just 4 years, it still drove great, never had any real problems apart from the injector O-rings needing replacing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
West4x4 Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 195k here ex AA 110 still going strong pulls like a train Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BogMonster Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 I know of several high mileage Td5s with no problems conversely I know of several others that have gone bang or worn out with very low miles (30-40k) so from knowing the vehicles I would say the ones to be wary of are the "lots of cold short runs shopping cars" rather than motorway milers. Bit like any engine really but the Td5s really don't seem to like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyb Posted July 28, 2008 Share Posted July 28, 2008 Where I used to work we had 3 TD5 Discovery 2 on the books, two with >100k miles on the clock and none of them gave any trouble. Just got normal service work and they were good to go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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