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[Rods2]

You can buy an awful lot of litres of petrol for the cost of DPF, injector, turbo and high pressure fuel pump diesel repairs.

Won't be long before all you can drive in cities is milk floats.

[Webby the Bear]

Exactly mate!

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

You can buy an awful lot of litres of petrol for the cost of DPF, injector, turbo and high pressure fuel pump diesel repairs.

Won't be long before all you can drive in cities is milk floats.

The Tesla version is reasonable enough.

[tunnie]

You have a point Webby, these new diesels are fine brand spankers or low miles, but get 6 figures on them and they need turbos, dpfs, injection issues ect.

I'm sure all the diesel savings are wiped out by a turbo replacement, or similar.

If I loose the 2.2 LPG for what ever reason, I will strongly consider LPGing my 150k 3.2 as I don't think a diesel will be any cheaper in the budget I would have.

[Taxi_Driver]

Oh ok fair points mate. I just assumed the bearings inside failed cos of the harsh job they have I.e. Spinning away at over 200k RPM.

Also depends on how the turbo is treated, same applies to petrol engine turbos.
You should never rag a turbo engine and then turn the engine immediately off, you should give the turbo a chance to cool down otherwise you can do damage to the bearings 

[chrisgixer]

Friends of ours, she's just bought a Range Rover Evoke. He's just bought a 535 touring. Both very low miles. Some 75k worth of cars.

Both diesel.

[Sir Tigger KC]

As to why they've dropped. . . Is it anything to do with the turbos needing replacing? We had 3 cars in last week that needed new turbos. Got my bear paws on one of them and there was so o o o o much play and oil everywhere.

Just wondering if that's one of the reasons?

No. It's cause they're killing people in towns and cities and the EU are getting twitchy. When the EU get twitchy it usually results in a half baked solution which costs someone everyone a lot of money.

Fixed.   

[Webby the Bear]

You have a point Webby, these new diesels are fine brand spankers or low miles, but get 6 figures on them and they need turbos, dpfs, injection issues ect.

I'm sure all the diesel savings are wiped out by a turbo replacement, or similar.

If I loose the 2.2 LPG for what ever reason, I will strongly consider LPGing my 150k 3.2 as I don't think a diesel will be any cheaper in the budget I would have.

Exactly what I was thinking. The cost of a turbo , for example, is ridiculous as it is let alone the labour cost. . . Especially when you see where some of them are tucked away!