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Old 07-29-2010, 05:16 AM   #44 (permalink)
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I'm seeing double...

The 318 was awful, and it has the same issue as the 325 with the pump keyed to the car and not even the speed to make up for it.

The E46 320d has vanes or something in the manifold which come away and lunch the turbo I think. Knew a guy who had one as a company car and it did this on the journey back to the leasing company with their driver at at the wheel after he had handed it back for a new one - 60K miles, full BMW service history. They tried to blame him but his company who leased it told them to get stuffed, and then handed back all of their cars and swapped companies. Nice revenge I thought.

If you want the full veg experience then one of those old Merc things seems a good bet - 250D, 300D or even a 190D perhaps a 2.5 suffix in the case of the last one.

Something like this ?

Hmm tempted but a little far away for me.
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