24-09-2012, 10:18 AM
Lol, Tom in epic defending VW to the hilt shocker!
This reliability argument really does my tits in. In all my years of Peugeot ownership, how many dmf's have I had to replace? Oh right, yeah none. What about chocolate cams? Nope none of them either. any problems I've had have been self inflicted, like failing to skim a head or getting creative with the power tools. The xud's taken some level of abuse, the engines nearly 20 years old and it still fires up every day even with 28psi thrown at it regularly. And it was built by me with no prior experience working on either diesels or engine builds full stop. I 100% guarantee that would not happen with a PD. More complex, more to go wrong.
And finally Tom, you say the Xsi is crap and people should have just spent more and got a gti.. Why then did you get a 130? Is that not the pd equivalent of buying an Xsi..?
Build quality =/= reliability.
This reliability argument really does my tits in. In all my years of Peugeot ownership, how many dmf's have I had to replace? Oh right, yeah none. What about chocolate cams? Nope none of them either. any problems I've had have been self inflicted, like failing to skim a head or getting creative with the power tools. The xud's taken some level of abuse, the engines nearly 20 years old and it still fires up every day even with 28psi thrown at it regularly. And it was built by me with no prior experience working on either diesels or engine builds full stop. I 100% guarantee that would not happen with a PD. More complex, more to go wrong.
And finally Tom, you say the Xsi is crap and people should have just spent more and got a gti.. Why then did you get a 130? Is that not the pd equivalent of buying an Xsi..?
Build quality =/= reliability.
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