Lewisgame wrote:HondaType wrote:
Then again I'd be interested to know what percentage of people that own a diesel actually experience DPF/injector/DMF failures. Think how many cars on the road are now TDi's. I'm sure they do go wrong occasionally, but I'd also not be surprised if a lot of the negativity was from people that have never owned a diesel scaremongering or trying to justify why they shouldn't own one!
I'm a VAG specialist and I'm seeing more issues with the new petrol cars over diesels. I owned a diesel before for 5 years and although it didn't have a DPF the only issue I had was a turbo failure and after remapping clutch slipping.
The issues aren't that common compared to the amount of cars on the road. But you only hear about the bad news.
Interesting, I also think a lot of diesel problems are overhyped, but speaking from experience they do exist. Our Audi A1 tdi broke down on us 3 times in 2 years, 2 of these were diesel related issues, glowplug problems and then an EGR cooler leak, which was never really sorted. Car was doing 20k miles a year so no risk of DPF issues but these problems have made us switch to a petrol. It was probably just unlucky, but still a pain.
We've now got the VAG 1.4 ACT petrol engine in a new Leon, the engine is fantastic compared to the diesels we tried. Quiet, smooth, but also quite torquey so still pulls really well. Averaging 45-50mpg, which I reckon is about 10 short of the diesel but we'll worth it and cost is offset by lower purchase price.
Of course, long term reliability is a bit of an unknown, so we got an extended warranty for piece of mind, but can't see us going back to diesel.