Isn't the 1.6TD the infamous 'diesel of doom', also found in the Ford Focus, Mazda3 and Volvo S40?
Yes, with a service interval of 20,000 miles according to Peugeot. That engine needs TLC much more frequently.
Saying that, there are plenty of owners on various forums and FB groups who haven't had issues, but its all down to regular servicing.
...and a decent amount of driving on faster-moving roads and away from mainly urban driving. I agree that scrimping on maintenance can be just as bad for cars, although diesels seem to be nowadays far more prone to expensive disasters if not maintained well just because of their additional complexity to overcome the emissions regs. Perhaps some makes felt they couldn't afford to pass on the REAL costs of meeting such regs by designing very reliable new diesel engines, so they scrimped on engineering quality (reliability wise) to keep the cost difference between them and petrol-engined cars to a lower amount to keep sales strong.
Of course, it didn't help that many sales reps (encouraged by head office or not) didn't care that they were flogging many diesel-powered cars with DPFs etc that weren't suitable for low annual mileages and/or predominantly urban driving. No-one has come out well from this, including punters who had the information available to make an informed choice (if they looked hard enough - it wasn't that difficult) but were lazy and chose not to.
People who did and still bought such diesels, as you say, seems to have done OK for the most part - one of my neighbours has a Focus with that engine in it and he hasn't had any problems with the car, and he's owned it (10 years) almost as long as my Mazda3 1.6 petrol (12). He does do a decent amount of motorway type driving though and overall has done over 150k miles, nearly 2.5x what I've done in mine.
Edited by Engineer Andy on 23/01/2018 at 14:42
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