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[Webby the Bear]

Mate wants to get one next weekend and wants me to go with him.

I've found out already that the water pump is aux belt driven which is good. Amnyone know the timing belt service intervals?

Any info you could furnish me with would be great

[joshwyatt]

Which engine is he looking at 1.6 TDCi, 1.8 or 2.0 TDCi?
I've never heard much or seen much wrong with the 1.8 or 2.0, aside the usual suspects...but the 1.6 TDCi, albeit still a good engine, doesn't seem to pass 110k miles without great expense looming.

Ex taxi Al and I had discussed the frequency of the 1.6 TDCi's appearing on ebay with engine faults, and again at WOMA with a lot of the former police vehicles. A large proportion of the 1.6's come through with running faults. Now, this clearly isn't the gospel truth that the 1.6 is to be avoided, as I've driven a few, and they seem pretty good...just at higher miles there seems to be a disproportionate amount of them going wrong.

[Webby the Bear]

Thanks Josh. we'll steer clear of the 1.6 i think 

we'll get him a 1.8

thanks mate

[05omegav6]

Local plod have suddenly started buying Mondeos rather than Focuses...

They are also white, rather than silver, so might be that some who uses white ones has sold them off to raise some cash, (Surrey have a yard near Guildford full of the bloody things ), so might not specifically be a Focus problem

[the alarming man]

1.6 tdci is a poxy peugot engine and trust me after 20,000 miles in one they are crap...mind you £30 pa road tax

[the alarming man]

Local plod have suddenly started buying Mondeos rather than Focuses...

They are also white, rather than silver, so might be that some who uses white ones has sold them off to raise some cash, (Surrey have a yard near Guildford full of the bloody things ), so might not specifically be a Focus problem

plod get cheaper cars if they go for white...not sure why,but the term 90 day white may not be so true nowadays

[05omegav6]

It's a significant shift Sussex have been using silver for the last 10 years...

[doz]

All the diesels are built in collaboration with Peugeot. Got 2.0 140 fat burner in the S-Max. Very good on fuel, smoother and a better spread of power than the VAG units. Cam belt on the 2lt is 120 k miles or 10 ten years.