Thinking out loud about mtdi

[powerandtorque]

And the HDis just fall apart when used daily, clutch, cat, beam, turbo, rust etc killed off the estate workhorse, sure I could've spent its value to make it reliable, but there's no justifying that for me lol.

They really don't, not if you buy one that's been vaguely looked after previously and then look after it properly in your ownership. Like any other car, they give problems when they've been neglected, bodged and people try to look after them on a shoestring doing the absolute bare minimum to keep them on the road.

I say this as someone who for the last 6 years has been doing 20-25k miles a year in a 306 HDi.