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Are later TDCi's more reliable?

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I am currently looking for a Mondeo estate with a budget of about 10k however there seems to be some pretty frightening stories about the TDCi engine on here. I am looking to keep the car a long time. Are the later TDCI's more reliable? If I get the injectors and DMF done once do they often go again(i.e has the design now been changed)? Thanks for your help in advance. :)
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I've read of people on this forum that have over 130,000 miles on the original injectors and others that seem to have had replacements under warranty at not much over 30,000miles. It does seem to be Ford dealers first response to engine problems is to replace the injectors, fine when they're paying, bad when their not so difficult to tell you what expected injector life is!

It's a similar story with DMF's, cars with well over 100,000 miles on the original DMF & clutch, others with replacements needed well below 100,000 miles.

There are a very large number of Mondeo TDCi's on the road and although there are a large number of posts in this section of the forum about problems, there must be a vast number that just keep going.

I read a lot of posts about problems but still bough a 3 year old TDCi with 83,000 miles on it and, although it's early days and only having put 5,000 additional miles on it, I don't regret it yet but I do have a pretty comprehensive warranty :)

To add to this we will shortly be looking for a TDCi estate for my wife and I'll be happy with a 115bhp 5 speed, the 6 speed box is largely unecessary unless you spend a lot of time travelling at 60mph plus and it seems that the 115bhp engines aren't as hard on injectors and DMF's.
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I have a 06 TDCi 130 with 138K on the clock. Nothing major done at all. Original injectors and DMF. Still pulls very well in all gears. Alternator belt starting to get a bit rattly tho i think this should have been changed at 125k. Will need to look at that sometime. A great car tho.
I say no. My car (07 tdci Estate)since Sept 09 has had:
egr valve
set of injectors
crank pulley
oil cooler stat

And since I got the car (sept 08) you can add
another crank pully

Plus misc noises

And a mate bought his 07 plate estate at the same time with similar miles and you can add front wheel bearings to the list and another set of injectors, new ones lasting 14000 miles. Bur he has only had 1 crank pulley. Both these cars are well serviced. We wont be getting Fords again.
So it does seem pretty random then the problems. Do you think a petrol is a better bet?
No diesel is much better. I think you can be unlucky with any car if not looked after. But if FSH then should not be too much of a problem even at high mileage. Overall Ford diesels are very reliable and should give economy, reliability and low service costs.
i bought a 5 year old with 90,000 miles on the clock and sold it 2 years later with 170,000 miles on the clock, all it had was servicing and a water pump

mind you, it was a merc sprinter......lol
dannynic said:
I am currently looking for a Mondeo estate with a budget of about 10k however there seems to be some pretty frightening stories about the TDCi engine on here. I am looking to keep the car a long time. Are the later TDCI's more reliable? If I get the injectors and DMF done once do they often go again(i.e has the design now been changed)? Thanks for your help in advance. :)
Price 50% of replacement price for DMF and injectors into your offer, if they don't go wrong then you're ahead, if they do then you've reduced your losses. Drive to preserve the DMF, use BP or Shell fuel plus an additive. I'll let you know in another 70k miles if it works for me!
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