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Piezo injectors on 2006 Leon
Under your "What's bad" section, there is a reference to
"Very useful information from FBE659 in The Backroom: The best PD units are mid-period 1.9s with solenoid injectors. Avoid the later piezo injector engines and avoid the 2.0 PD at all costs because of the likelihood of oil pump drive failure - especially in N-S installations. The earliest PD engines had a rather complex and flaky fuel cooling system which is also better avoided.
The best vintage PD is probably an '04 1.9 130 (AWX) - the 150 HP units are not as reliable and don't actually go much better."
So is the 2006 Leon 1.9TDi engine one of the better ones as mentioned above please? I appreciate it's noisy, etc. but just want to buy the most reliable version.
"Very useful information from FBE659 in The Backroom: The best PD units are mid-period 1.9s with solenoid injectors. Avoid the later piezo injector engines and avoid the 2.0 PD at all costs because of the likelihood of oil pump drive failure - especially in N-S installations. The earliest PD engines had a rather complex and flaky fuel cooling system which is also better avoided.
The best vintage PD is probably an '04 1.9 130 (AWX) - the 150 HP units are not as reliable and don't actually go much better."
So is the 2006 Leon 1.9TDi engine one of the better ones as mentioned above please? I appreciate it's noisy, etc. but just want to buy the most reliable version.
Asked on 8 April 2011 by S6
Answered by
Honest John
I think by 2006 even the 105hp units had piezo injectors.
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