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Should I buy a high mileage diesel?

I have previously read your comments on modern diesels complexity (DPF/DMF/EGR/Turbo) possibly being problematic with high miles unlike older diesel engines. Would these issues be true of the Honda i-DTEC diesel engines?

Asked on 10 April 2014 by briscs

Answered by Honest John
Same for all. The fleets like diesels because of good economy, low BIK and, low tax. But they run them on longlife servicing, which means an oil change every 20k-30k miles, so by the time they dispose of the cars the engines are worn a lot more badly than they would be if they had been oil serviced every 10k miles.
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