xantia estate hdi reliable motoring?

[steve_earwig]

I've got some 406 wiring loom here, there are a lot of yellow wires in that, probably because they're all joined together.

 

I'd have thought if the injector was stuck open the effects would be fairly apparent, high fuel consumption, even white smoke. I've not come across it though.

 

I didn't know that you could get a prefacelift 406 with HDI. I thought that they were all 1.9 or 2.1 prior to facelift.

HDi 406s started appearing before the facelift in 1999 when the 2.1 disappeared and was replaced by the 2.0 HDi 110. 1.9 TD's seem to have been carried on right up until the facelift but a '99 2.1TD is a rare beast. The prefacelift HDi didn't have a DMF and the car wasn't multihexed so this would be the one to go for if you don't mind the millions of catastrophic failures HDi's apparently suffer.

 

Well, I seem to have been lucky so far but I'm sure the next time I drive my HDi the engine will fall out and the electrics will catch fire and only then will I realise I should have bought a Passat because they never go wrong.