BMW X3 Turbo

mattyprice4004

Another silly 'advancement' by the BMW lot - the M47 engine (think this could be the same one) was used in the 320d known so well for it's turbo issues, and was also used in the Rover 75.

However Rover had the sense to use a traditional turbo setup and a 'dumb' manifold without swirl flaps - there are now several on their first turbo on well over 300k that we know of.

It's daft they fail so often. It's almost like they didn't bother testing them properly.

GolfBravo

mattyprice4004 wrote: »

It's daft they fail so often. It's almost like they didn't bother testing them properly.

I think it's due to a totally different real-life testing environment in Germany.

I regularly read both Auto Express and its German sister-publication Auto Bild. The reliability issues that they talk about are quite often very different to UK issues. In Germany you hardly ever hear about turbo and DPF failures, but you keep hearing about rust. Due to their road system (for every mile of UK motorways they have 3 miles of Autobahns), public transport (which is superb and cheap) and excellent bicycle lanes/parking people there usually don't drive very short distances. So due to longer distances travelled their engines are constantly at a nice operating temperature (so no major turbo issues), and their DPFs get a good regeneration at high speed.

First time I went to Germany (in 2002 I think) and when I rang my hotel's reception to get my car ready the receptionist was astonished that I was going to drive it to the nearest shopping centre only 3km away. She just couldn't comprehend it since there was a reliable public transport available: €1.50 for a return bus ticket, departures every 7 minutes. And that's in a small city. Car parking: €4 euros an hour.

Back to the OP. Only 11K miles in over 2 years! Why diesel?

Unless you drive a taxi/delivery vans/rep car and your average trip is minimum 30 minutes you should stick to petrol engines.