High mileage taxis

Ian6549

My dad has a 2008 skoda Octavia 1.9tdi old spec used as a taxi and has 549,000kms on the clock and still going, anyone got anything similar

coylemj

Did ye find any mobile phones down under the back seat?

Ian6549

coylemj wrote: »

Did ye find any mobile phones down under the back seat?

Ye, waited for someone to call the phone then arranged to drop off👌

winnie the schtink

i have a skoda superb ex taxi with 490000 km still driving perfect ,there is something about skodas they seem to give no trouble compared to other vw products

Jack the Stripper

Friend in London has 900,000 miles on black taxi. Them 2.7 terrano engines when serviced just kept running.

corcaigh1

Ian6549 wrote: »

My dad has a 2008 skoda Octavia 1.9tdi old spec used as a taxi and has 549,000kms on the clock and still going, anyone got anything similar

The vag range 1.9tdi are one of the best engines ever made i reckon, indestructible once serviced with oil changes etc...

jca

corcaigh1 wrote: »

The vag range 1.9tdi are one of the best engines ever made i reckon, indestructible once serviced with oil changes etc...

The NA 2.4 Toyota engine in the pre D4D Hiace were the same, they didn't even need oil changes!!!

dm2978

I've a 2007 just retired with 750000, here it was in June 2016 after just missing a good photo.

winnie the schtink

mad. mine was a carlow taxi

dm2978

winnie the schtink wrote: »

mad. mine was a carlow taxi

Gold with a g Reg?

corcaigh1

jca wrote: »

The NA 2.4 Toyota engine in the pre D4D Hiace were the same, they didn't even need oil changes!!!

Indeed, I had a 96 and a 00 hiace as a tradesman years ago, great van. Here in cork shandon cabs had an 90's hiace minibus with well over 600k miles, not sure if its still in use though...

selectamatic

130bhp tdi superb local to me has 700,000+km on the clock. Still going strong but not in the taxi business anymore.

vandriver

I got an Octavia taxi in Lanzarote with 900k km on it.

winnie the schtink

dm2978 wrote: »

Gold with a g Reg?

na blue 04 ls

9935452

corcaigh1 wrote: »

The vag range 1.9tdi are one of the best engines ever made i reckon, indestructible once serviced with oil changes etc...

With one exception - BXE engine codes

gollywog

My brother had a 406 2.0 hdi that I saw had 640 something thousand miles on it the last time I looked. It's been gone a good while now though

corcaigh1

9935452 wrote: »

With one exception - BXE engine codes

Oh yeah, conrods self destructing!

corcaigh1

gollywog wrote: »

My brother had a 406 2.0 hdi that I saw had 640 something thousand miles on it the last time I looked. It's been gone a good while now though

Jaysus didn't know them diesel pug motors were good for that sort of mileage!

jca

corcaigh1 wrote: »

Jaysus didn't know them diesel pug motors were good for that sort of mileage!

Yea 3 engines, 4 gearboxes and about 200 drives later... a bit like triggers broom!!

corcaigh1

jca wrote: »

Yea 3 engines, 4 gearboxes and about 200 drives later... a bit like triggers broom!!

Triggers broom lol!!

johndaman66

corcaigh1 wrote: »

Jaysus didn't know them diesel pug motors were good for that sort of mileage!

PSA group have made very robust diesel engines. In particular I have heard it mentioned more than once that the PSA XUD engines are fantastic in terms of reliability and longevity, surely up there with the afore mentioned Toyota and VW diesel engines in the thread. In fact akin to the Toyota diesel engine that one poster points out doesn't even need oil changes I had a friend with a 306 van with the flat 1.9 XUD engine back in the day... He was changing his coolant but for some bananas reason he never replenished it after draining old coolant. He drove for many miles and it didn't break the engine or cause any issues....he just refilled it then and kept going.


The 2.0 HDI engine itself that followed was suppose to be pretty good too as far as I know but possibly not immune to the issues that affect all modern era diesels and their associated fuelling systems / drivetrains/ ancillaries etc. I have heard it mentioned on this forum a few times that the 1.6 HDI that came later wasn't anything near as good as the 2.0 HDI.... If you don't service the 1.6 HDI on time every time with the right oil etc. they will crucify you and even if you do they can be problematic. I wouldn't be overly familiar with more modern PSA diesels.


I say all of the above without being a massive Peugeot fan, far from it in fact.

zilog_jones

johndaman66 wrote: »

PSA group have made very robust diesel engines. In particular I have heard it mentioned more than once that the PSA XUD engines are fantastic in terms of reliability and longevity, surely up there with the afore mentioned Toyota and VW diesel engines in the thread. In fact akin to the Toyota diesel engine that one poster points out doesn't even need oil changes I had a friend with a 306 van with the flat 1.9 XUD engine back in the day... He was changing his coolant but for some bananas reason he never replenished it after draining old coolant. He drove for many miles and it didn't break the engine or cause any issues....he just refilled it then and kept going.


The 2.0 HDI engine itself that followed was suppose to be pretty good too as far as I know but possibly not immune to the issues that affect all modern era diesels and their associated fuelling systems / drivetrains/ ancillaries etc. I have heard it mentioned on this forum a few times that the 1.6 HDI that came later wasn't anything near as good as the 2.0 HDI.... If you don't service the 1.6 HDI on time every time with the right oil etc. they will crucify you and even if you do they can be problematic. I wouldn't be overly familiar with more modern PSA diesels.

The DW10 (2.0 HDI) is physically very similar to the XUD, I think the block is more or less the same. The big difference is the common rail injection - and that stuff is all either Bosch or Siemens depending on which version, so shouldn't be any less reliable than the equivalent German muck

There's still a '02 Peugeot 406 taxi on the road in Cork city today, don't know the mileage though. PSA occasionally made some good cars

Notch000

i started checking the clock on the airport galway dublin busses out of sheer amazement , the last one i got was a 151 Reg and it had 460,000 Kms already

johndaman66

zilog_jones wrote: »

There's still a '02 Peugeot 406 taxi on the road in Cork city today, don't know the mileage though. PSA occasionally made some good cars

Agreed. Some of the cars they have produced in the past including the likes of the 205; various 306 models; 106; 405; and certain aspects and models of the Xantia are just legendary in my opinion. As for their current day offerings....well I don't think they have much going for them and would be inclined to suggest that has being the case for some time now.

Victor

What is the attitude of insurers to ex-taxis?

johndaman66

Victor wrote: »

What is the attitude of insurers to ex-taxis?

Assuming you mean insuring the car privately for social; domestic and pleasure use I wouldn't imagine it is something you would actually be obliged to disclose to the insurer be it captured under their list of questions or otherwise. As long as the car has a current NCT, is in a road worthy state and does not have any modifications that you do not disclose I would say its all fair game unless there is something I'm totally overlooking here.

winnie the schtink

you don't need to disclose anything they know everything the minute you give them the reg and cross reference it on a database

JohnBoy26

corcaigh1 wrote: »

The vag range 1.9tdi are one of the best engines ever made i reckon, indestructible once serviced with oil changes etc...

They give their fair share of issues believe it or not. Head gaskets are a common problem on them for example. The bxe engines can be spared of self destruction by changing the shell bearings on time.

jca

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

They give their fair share of issues believe it or not. Head gaskets are a common problem on them for example. The bxe engines can be spared of self destruction by changing the shell bearings on time.

Shell bearings shouldn't have to changed at the owners expense because vw are penny pinching gits. I've only ever heard of one car an early B6 Passat with a blown head gasket, the car was a DL UK import which had been clocked to within an inch of its life. The owner got it done and flogged it to a neighbour who's still bombing around in it.

JohnBoy26

jca wrote: »

Shell bearings shouldn't have to changed at the owners expense because vw are penny pinching gits. I've only ever heard of one car an early B6 Passat with a blown head gasket, the car was a DL UK import which had been clocked to within an inch of its life. The owner got it done and flogged it to a neighbour who's still bombing around in it.

No they shouldn't but changing the shell bearings will save the engine from being wrecked which will save the owner the cost of a new/secondhand engine + the labour to fit it plus you will probably be fitting bearings to the new engine anyway as a precautionary measure as you don't want to be back to square one again in six months time.

You might of only seen one hg failure on these but it is a common enough occurrence tbh.

jimmycrackcorm

Interesting thread given recent utterances about telling people to switch to petrol because how bad diesels are due to DPF etc.

Guy:Incognito

johndaman66 wrote: »

PSA group have made very robust diesel engines. In particular I have heard it mentioned more than once that the PSA XUD engines are fantastic in terms of reliability and longevity, surely up there with the afore mentioned Toyota and VW diesel engines in the thread. In fact akin to the Toyota diesel engine that one poster points out doesn't even need oil changes I had a friend with a 306 van with the flat 1.9 XUD engine back in the day... He was changing his coolant but for some bananas reason he never replenished it after draining old coolant. He drove for many miles and it didn't break the engine or cause any issues....he just refilled it then and kept goint

Toyota used the xud in a couple of things in the late 90s/early 00s iirc.

JohnBoy26

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Toyota used the xud in a couple of things in the late 90s/early 00s iirc.

They used a peugeot engine only in the facelift e11 corolla 2000-2002 as a stop/gap until the 2.0d4d arrived in the e12 in 2002. The pug unit is generally regarded as an inferior engine to the previous toyota 2.0d in the pre facelift e11.

johndaman66

JohnBoy26 wrote: »

They used a peugeot engine only in the facelift e11 corolla 2000-2002 as a stop/gap until the 2.0d4d arrived in the e12 in 2002. The pug unit is generally regarded as an inferior engine to the previous toyota 2.0d in the pre facelift e11.

Was going to buy a 1.9 Pug XUD Corolla van back in the day. In the end his asking was a bit on the high side and no give on it so didn't. Wouldn't be regarded as up there with the Toyota 2.0 diesel in the early e11 model alright, certainly by the purists anyway. Nonetheless the 1.9 XUD could hardly be called bad and arguably better than the early d4d engines which followed but I acknowledge were talking the newer generation of more technologically sophisticated engines versus older more basic.

jca

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

Interesting thread given recent utterances about telling people to switch to petrol because how bad diesels are due to DPF etc.

Diesels are only "bad" as you put it, when driven incorrectly.

zilog_jones

The fact it's so easy to drive modern diesels "incorrectly" means they're a flawed design. All the emissions controls are only well suited to regular motorway driving, and they're largely ineffective at reducing emissions anyway. I'm not surprised so many taxi drivers are moving to the Prius and other hybrids - they're much more efficient at low speed urban driving and short journeys, and have proven to be reliable.