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[lefty]

At the moment we have a rather stupidly large collection of cars (and except for the vauxhall, they're all worth next to fuck-all...)

XJ 4.0 (my offroad bitch)
vx220t (my backroad bitch)
Punto HGT (the wifes car)
Golf td (my commuting bitch)
406 td (my old commuting bitch that i've been meaning to sell)
hi-lux (my taking-stuff-to-the-tip bitch)

A friend of mine is selling his 2000 XJ 2.5TD, it's cheap as chips, in great nick, low miles and is really, really clean. I don't think it's ever even been offroad.

So I'm thinking that if I get that xj, i can sell the 406, the golf and the hi-lux, use the 4.0 xj as the play-day/tip/bad-weather car, use the 2.5TD as the commuting bitch and hey presto, i've replaced 3 cars with one. Which just happens to be another jeep  :wink:

[Dave69]

being a 2000yr with electronic injector pump and revised cylinder heads, apart from wear and tear it should be a reliable lump. Nice and torquey returning a good 30mpg

[tim_aka_tim]

Replace a Golf TDi that does say 55mpg with a Cherokee that has an unreliable, uneconomical engine out of a tractor? With 31s the engine will cope great, but the mpg will go rapidly south.
Apart from the torque and mpg, the 4.0 is better, much better, in every respect.
The problem with owning a VM engine (and I speak from experience - I had a 2000 WJ 3.1TD which is a 2.5 with another pot), is that you have this constant fear in your mind of suddenly facing a £2000 repair bill, and life's too short to worry about such crap.

[lefty]

 

I could do with the money that selling the golf/406/hi-lux will generate (hopefully 6 or 7k). Is the VM really that bad?  

[Dave69]

I'm not a favourite of them. i've got an engine rebuild now down to 6 hrs mainly because i've done it so often.
 I bought a 4ltr tosave me the expense of repair bills for the engine all be it on a mk1, the face lift models should have had all the initial problems or concerns delt with

[tim_aka_tim]

Is the VM really that bad?  

Yes. Especially if you're gonna spend a long drive each day in it. I'd still keep the golf, as El Presidente may have a nasty surprise for us gas-guzzling planet destroyers and our 4x4s from hell.