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I must say that you should use the picture on the front of last week's (or was it the week before) at the top of your column. Hardly credit you are the same person. You look less like a 'would you buy a car off this man' car dealer. This week's Telegraph Motoring, page M3 - 'one of our five favourite diesel engines’: I am still running the 1.9 TDI MK I bought new in 1998 and there will come a time I will want to replace it. How do you distinguish between the 2.0 engine recommended and the earlier 2.0 litre engine it refers to. I presume they are both belt cams or is the later one chain cam. I appreciate that you did not write the piece.
Asked on 24 April 2010 by R.H., via e-mail
Answered by
Honest John
I can't understand why they haven't done that, either. We use this year’s photo for my website. So why use a cheesy 15 year old photo to top the column. Yes all VAG 2.0 litre diesels are belt cam. You’ll get reader feedback on the various engines in the appropriate entries in the car by car reviews at www.honestjohn.co.uk But what Andrew is talking about here is the piezo injected Common Rail 2.0 diesel v/s the previous 2.0 TDI pumpe duse diesel engine. The piezo injected engine is smoother and more efficient, but the high pressure injection pump is more vulnerable to lack of lubricity in the fuel and the jury is so far out on reliability of piezo injectors that Ford won't even fit them.
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