I have heard of the PSA engines suffering with EGR valves, injector issues, turbo failure, DPF's etc.

I think it is mostly due to the Euro 4 (I think) emissions that the PSA engine has to adhere to, it has much tighter emission control and a more complex management systems monitoring things. You have electronically controlled EGR's and DPF's etc that all fail with just pootling about.

The 1.8 is an earlier Euro 3 engine (again I stand to be corrected on this), so although the EGR is electronic, it's performance is not monitored so you can blank it off without issue (which I have done), and there's no DPF's etc to worry about, and a much simpler management system.


The PSA engine is supposed to be a very good bit of kit, it's just the shite that is bolted to it!