Hdi or XUD... Pros and cons info needed.

[Poodle]

The problem with HDis is they require effort to diagnose, and you can tell from looking around a few of the "won't start" threads that most of the OPs aren't capable of this. An xud however will apparently run whether you get the fix right or not, so anyway it's fixed, right? It's the same with XUDs and mechanical sympathy, they'd probably be fine for the most part if the engines didn't get abused so badly, but no they throw rods and eat headgaskets for fun...

You're handy with the spanners and have a brain, on that basis i reckon the HDi would be the better option for you, especially doing mileage like that.