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carracarra13:
Got a tdi 200 disco (thanks Dan m8 pucer truck) I no there old but touch wood very trust worthy, 190000 mile but drives like allot less, and I recon Im getting 30+ miles out of it (then again Im a steady 55-60 mile an hour driver, shes got colway mt on steel moduals (which Iv painted smoothright black after a good wire brushing), you wont win any races but if you want speed buy a sports car or a v8 :lol: :lol: :lol:, all in she performs well off road and water no worries

J B:
sounds like a goodun, just keep ontop of the rust and it'll serv you well  :cool:

Range Rover Blues:
190, 000 miles might just mean it's sat rolling along some on some big journeys.  It's cold starts and stop starting that wears them out.

A good sign is if they don't breath too heavily, unfortunately you can't ell much from the engine oil.

carracarra13:
thats wnat I was thinking, when you say breathing excuse my ignorance what is ment by this term ? does it mean how clean its burning?

clbarclay:
Engines have a breather pipe that vents the oily side of the block, not sure where it comes out of on a TDi (off the top of one rocker cover on a v8) and the are connected to the air intake so that they don't dump oil (vapourised) onto the road. Most engines have a swirl pot fitted which using the same principal as a dyson (its been around a lot longer than funny colour vacume cleaners) removes most of the oil from the breather and returns it back to the sump.

If there is relativerly a lot of oil (or even water :roll:) coming out of the breather then its a sign of a worn engine. If you temporaryily disconnect the breather pipe from the engine side of the swirl pot or the air box etc. and stick it into a bottle, then run the engine and see what comes out.

On the old VM engined RRC which didn't have a swirl pot then you can didn't have a swirl pot, you can tell ho much oil is getting sent outthe breather by how long a new air filter lasts before its ends up with more oil it that a series oil bather filter :lol:

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