Ford Mondeo : Fuel Pump £1800? O.o

What about people who know all about Mondeo diesel failiure points without having any experience of them, simply because the reason they dont have any experience is because they succesfully dodged the bullet and bought something else as a result of the knowledge they had? :p
 
[TW]Fox;17704757 said:
What about people who know all about Mondeo diesel failiure points without having any experience of them, simply because the reason they dont have any experience is because they succesfully dodged the bullet and bought something else as a result of the knowledge they had? :p
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Depends if the knowledge is good or not - you don't need to have owned something to know about it. But a bit of independent fact checking is always sensible.
 
iaind said:
There are other people who will decide something is completely crap and regurgitate or exaggerate third hand information that they googled. ISTR seeing someone mention TDCI injector failure would cost £1000 - in fact, a full set would cost that and the odds of 4 going at once are slim. A google might reveal someone paying a grand for all 4 because they didn't know to get the, bench tested - a £75 job.
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You are like a ostrich who sticks its head into the ground to try and avoid reality. If one injector fails, one or more of the others aren't going to be far behind. So not only are you STILL going to have to be paying for 4 injectors spread over say a year but by your suggestion, you're going to have to be paying a further £300 for 4 x £75 bench testing. And also throughout that time, the engine isn't going to be runnign particularly well. Dumb.

Incidentally, I remember following one of your early 'TDCi engines are bulletproof' threads, speaking to the United Diesel guy. He started laughing when I recounted to him what you were saying, and the low prices that you suggested, and he started asking, 'Who said that then?'
 
It's more a case of direct injection vs. port injection than petrol vs. diesel. Both petrol and diesel direct injection systems run conventional fuel pumps as low pressure feeds to a positive displacement (think piston in cylinder) high pressure pump, which is the expensive part.

Common rail diesel systems do run at about 10 times the pressure of gasoline direct injection though..
 
govich said:
It's more a case of direct injection vs. port injection than petrol vs. diesel. Both petrol and diesel direct injection systems run conventional fuel pumps as low pressure feeds to a positive displacement (think piston in cylinder) high pressure pump, which is the expensive part.

Common rail diesel systems do run at about 10 times the pressure of gasoline direct injection though..
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Wrong.

Petrol engine fuel rails typically run at 30-50psi and have no pump as described, usually just an in tank affair which supplies fuel at a higher-than-needed pressure, for regulation on the fuel rail.
Common Rail diesel systems typically operate at over 1000bar, which is nearly 15,000psi. A bit more than 10 times!
 
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rover416i said:
Wrong.

Petrol engine fuel rails typically run at 30-50psi and have no pump as described, usually just an in tank affair which supplies fuel at a higher-than-needed pressure, for regulation on the fuel rail.
Common Rail diesel systems typically operate at over 1000bar, which is nearly 15,000psi. A bit more than 10 times!
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I'm talking about direct injection petrol systems (see Ford EcoBoost, current 911 etc.)
 
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