Originally Posted by
RichieST
Yes it's a 1.8. It's alright, not the fastest thing in the world but just right for my 60 mile a day commute. Yes both belts were done, was quite an expensive job but as the interval is 125k it works out cheaper than saw your equivalent VW, which would be every 40k, so would have been on its 4th belt.
The wifes step dad had a 1.8 diesel. When i was out in it i thought it was a 2ltr cause it seem to pull well.
We had these engines in the tranny connects at work and in 7 years of working there we changed 2 engines 1 was because the post man selected 1st instead of 3rd and shot a con rod through the block. Gods honest truth he drove it to our garage and it was still running.
The other engine cracked a liner cause the coolant pipe split causing loss of coolantand the engine got too hot.