240 '92 6 cyl. diesel how reliable?

Has anybody got comments on this motor?
Is it reliable? any udea on the avg. fuel consumption (please in l/100km)
Is a motor with 200k km at the end of its life or still young?
I am now driving a B230F 240 sedan and thinking of switching to a 240 diesel
break.
The car has now 200k km, mine has 250 k km and hummms like a bee. I have no
experiences with the diesel cars. What are other things to look at?

Thanks guys!

Franky

 

I didn't know that they still offered the diesel option that late. If it's
the
same as the earlier 6 cyl diesels, it's a VW engine. People have posted
here that they are good for about 180k miles (you can convert to km), then
tend to need rebuilds or significant repairs. It's supposedly cheaper to
get parts through VW, too. IIRC, the fuel pumps and head gaskets are
prone to fail at about the mileage of the one you are looking at.

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Please correct me if I am wrong but I believe the block/lower end was
supplied by VW but the top end (headers/injection system etc) was/is
supplied by PRV.

VW has 3/4/5/6 cylinder diesel (turbocharged) engines based on the same bore
and stroke. I had a VW Golf diesel it took 85000 KM to break the engine in.
my mileage jumped 46 to 52 miles per imperial gallon. Sorry for the mixed
measurement systems but I am bilingual. Also a chemist/technocrat.

G

 

It's a completely VW engine.. which is a shame really. Peugeot's diesels,
even back then, were quite impressive. By 87 they had a EFI equipped
diesel.

In the US they marketed 90hp four banger turbo diesels. Pretty impressive
stuff with its 21 or 22:1 compression ratio (compared to other TDs of the
time, that's pretty high). And none of the beastly hassle of that 6
cylinder diesel.

A friend of mine has a Pug 505TD with the XD2S engine (70hp). That car
(sedan, stick) feels about as peppy as another friend's Volvo 245 (wagon,
auto), but the Pug gets about 10 extra miles to the gallon.

Can you tell how much I'd like to stick a Pug engine into a 760 diesel? :-D

The V6 engine was the only French motor Volvo ever used in a US market
vehicle (and the heads were Volvo, the block was French). I believe that
some Renault four bangers made their way into one of Volvos older FWD
models (300? 400?).. but the diesels were all VW/Audi... right down to the
(Bosch) injection.

- alex

'85 244 Turbo
'84 245 Turbo

 

I found it interesting the first time I saw one that the engine has the VW
logo right on it, not even a custom Volvo valve cover.