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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7978158" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>Change the oil pump on early Ford 2.2 diesels and they will last as long as any other engine ever made in the same class. The Ford V6 diesel ‘Lion’ engine used by Land and Range Rover plus Jaguar has a very high failure rate. Nothing whatsoever to do with electronics or emission equipment. They just didn’t get the basic design of the crankshaft right from the start. Basically the engine is, relatively speaking, absolute garbage. It goes well until it doesn’t.</p><p>So both the engines you mention have failures totally unrelated with the ‘junk’ you insinuate to be responsible. They have basic mechanical design faults, which have been an issue with some designs since time immemorial. Think Ford porous blocks for a farm engine example.</p><p></p><p>Toyota are certainly more reliable than average but don’t be under any illusion that they are uniformly perfect. I had far more build issues with my Land Cruiser 100 than with my 2004 Range Rover. The latter being absolutely perfect from day one until the day I sold it with literally only the driver’s door stop strap anchor needing tightening once. The Cruiser needed a new fog light, driver’s seat belt because it didn’t retract, several attempts to get the front tyre wear/wheel alignment right and a transmission computer under warranty. The steering wheel adjustment motors failed soon after warranty and was left as a non adjustable column for the next 18 years. On the whole, once the initial build issues were sorted, it was amazingly reliable for 200,000 hard miles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7978158, member: 718"] Change the oil pump on early Ford 2.2 diesels and they will last as long as any other engine ever made in the same class. The Ford V6 diesel ‘Lion’ engine used by Land and Range Rover plus Jaguar has a very high failure rate. Nothing whatsoever to do with electronics or emission equipment. They just didn’t get the basic design of the crankshaft right from the start. Basically the engine is, relatively speaking, absolute garbage. It goes well until it doesn’t. So both the engines you mention have failures totally unrelated with the ‘junk’ you insinuate to be responsible. They have basic mechanical design faults, which have been an issue with some designs since time immemorial. Think Ford porous blocks for a farm engine example. Toyota are certainly more reliable than average but don’t be under any illusion that they are uniformly perfect. I had far more build issues with my Land Cruiser 100 than with my 2004 Range Rover. The latter being absolutely perfect from day one until the day I sold it with literally only the driver’s door stop strap anchor needing tightening once. The Cruiser needed a new fog light, driver’s seat belt because it didn’t retract, several attempts to get the front tyre wear/wheel alignment right and a transmission computer under warranty. The steering wheel adjustment motors failed soon after warranty and was left as a non adjustable column for the next 18 years. On the whole, once the initial build issues were sorted, it was amazingly reliable for 200,000 hard miles. [/QUOTE]
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