Ford 1.8td 300k+

Tuco88

My old fella picked up a 98c 1.8td (endura D engine) diesel Ford escort saloon a few years back as a stop gap car for €490. All it needed was a CV joint at the time, ended up keeping it for 8 years.

The clock stopped working at around 310,000 miles all the figues went uneven. The external body work of the car was good. Interior was aged mostly the font seats and the boot. Never needed anything mechanically bar the usual wear and tear tyres, breaks, bushings...

The NCT war...

Failed an NCT 3 times with him. High emissions and rust rest was silly stuff. €20 petrol in with a full tank of diesel fixed the emissions from 8 down to nothing hardly (had them scraching heads) told them he spent $$$$ on the engine. Fibre glass job on the rust passed that time.

What finished it in the end was the rust underneath his car mech put the nail in coffen used to called it a "real car" ha.

It easly had 350k + in the end. It also had a hitch and the father was in the building game so worked hard! The clutch was very borderline in the end also.

I recently purchased an A4 for 25k... At times when i look at it i remember the ol escort lol. Greatest car he ever had he says by far.

So thats my one for all the toyota stories i keep hearing in the pub.

kyote00

We run a 2010 avensis estate - had it from new. Now has ~425k kilometres. Its had a clutch along the way, a few brake disks and two electric window motors....

Tuco88 wrote: »

My old fella picked up a 98c 1.8td (endura D engine) diesel Ford escort saloon a few years back as a stop gap car for €490. All it needed was a CV joint at the time, ended up keeping it for 8 years.

The clock stopped working at around 310,000 miles all the figues went uneven. The external body work of the car was good. Interior was aged mostly the font seats and the boot. Never needed anything mechanically bar the usual wear and tear tyres, breaks, bushings...

The NCT war...

Failed an NCT 3 times with him. High emissions and rust rest was silly stuff. €20 petrol in with a full tank of diesel fixed the emissions from 8 down to nothing hardly (had them scraching heads) told them he spent $$$$ on the engine. Fibre glass job on the rust passed that time.

What finished it in the end was the rust underneath his car mech put the nail in coffen used to called it a "real car" ha.

It easly had 350k + in the end. It also had a hitch and the father was in the building game so worked hard! The clutch was very borderline in the end also.

I recently purchased an A4 for 25k... At times when i look at it i remember the ol escort lol. Greatest car he ever had he says by far.

So thats my one for all the toyota stories i keep hearing in the pub.

JohnBoy26

Tuco88 wrote: »

My old fella picked up a 98c 1.8td (endura D engine) diesel Ford escort saloon a few years back as a stop gap car for €490. All it needed was a CV joint at the time, ended up keeping it for 8 years.

The clock stopped working at around 310,000 miles all the figues went uneven. The external body work of the car was good. Interior was aged mostly the font seats and the boot. Never needed anything mechanically bar the usual wear and tear tyres, breaks, bushings...

The NCT war...

Failed an NCT 3 times with him. High emissions and rust rest was silly stuff. €20 petrol in with a full tank of diesel fixed the emissions from 8 down to nothing hardly (had them scraching heads) told them he spent $$$$ on the engine. Fibre glass job on the rust passed that time.

What finished it in the end was the rust underneath his car mech put the nail in coffen used to called it a "real car" ha.

It easly had 350k + in the end. It also had a hitch and the father was in the building game so worked hard! The clutch was very borderline in the end also.

I recently purchased an A4 for 25k... At times when i look at it i remember the ol escort lol. Greatest car he ever had he says by far.

So thats my one for all the toyota stories i keep hearing in the pub.

A corolla of the same vintage will easily do that mileage and still drive like new. They don't suffer from the tin worm either.

I suppose the escort isn't a bad workhorse though but they are harsh and horrible to drive and suffer badly from rust.

Tuco88

Rust is the killer with fords its a pitty.

ELM327

Are you selling the escort?

Guy:Incognito

I've an 06 ex taxi 1.6 hdi c5 with 310k on the clock outside that's only not driving because it developed a coolant leak somewhere round the back of the engine that I hadn't bothered to go rooting .drives fine other than the annoyance of topping up the coolant the whole time.

The engine wasn't well looked after before I got it either.

I've also got an 05 1.8 mondeo with 130k from new with one not so careful owner that's burning oil, failing badly on emissions and sounds and feels like the dmf is about to leave the building.

Tuco88

No she went to the scrap yard for €50 about 2 years ago engine when to Africa. I would have loved to have held on to it, as a project had no storage for it.

Toyotafanboi

Those old 1.8 units are hard as nails. It pales in comparison but I had a Mk1 Focus with that engine with just shy of 200k miles on it and it ran great. I'd say it would have done the same again but the bodywork was letting it down. Was still running well when I sold it.

dr.fuzzenstein

Bought an 06 1.8 TDCI CMax in 2010 with 112k km on it. The salesman was agast that I'd want a car with that kind of astronomical mileage on it.
Left it in Ireland last year and it had 380k km on it.
It did need a clutch, timing belt, 4 discs, several wheel bearings and shocks and springs all round, but the engine ran as good the last day as the first. I'd still drive it, needs a turbo though, because besides whistling it does eff all now.
Have a 2.0 TDCI now and I don't trust that engine like the 1.8.
Had at least 5 cars with that engine and it is utterly bullet proof.