To conduct a POLL on THE MOST RELIABLE MOTOR in any current production vehicle

Anything Isuzu

Just to beat Truckster to it...........

4.2 diesel Patrol

The 3.8 V6 Commodore motor has to be up there, SO many of them out there, never see them on the side of the road, I imagine a large percentage being neglected of regular servicing etc.

On a bit of a tangent, but ...

Reliability is one thing. I reckon just as important and in some cases probably more important is serviceability.

In other words, the ability to get a motor back on the road easily and with least cost. Most motors these days are highly reliable, but serviceability is low due to electronics and cost. For example, which idiot thought of in-tank fuel pumps????

Most older motors are less reliable, but their serviceability is right up there. Fixing an igntion problem can be as simple as replacing a set of points. Fixing a fuel problem can be as simple as cleaning out a carbie. Remember the days when an overheated engine didn't necessarily mean spending $5000 on new cylinder heads?

Ah, for the days of the old cast iron Holden red motor!

Life's too short!

179 holden motor

graham

That ever reliable Nissan 3.0 TD
Only owners of lesser reliable vehicles would not be in agreeance with this
Mike

Jackaroo alias Isuzu

The engines they fit to the NSW Government Bus Fleet - some of them have over 1,500,000 KMS on them !!!!!

Jack

Throwing my 2 cents in , not to mention I'm going in the only motor's Ive owned and clocked over 100kms in.

Nissan SD33.....loved that motor strong went as fast as petrols and could pull a stump out with. Only did 150 thou in it though...{MQ body rusted away}

holden series 2 v6 petrol........its loud and clunky but seams to be bullet proof only done 80 in it yet.

Bmw k100 motorcycle .......wait for it 150000 and no work on it ever.........yes it was my couier bike for 5 years......

Nl12 volvo 425 hp 1.2mill and still going strong...mind you when I wrote it off it only had about 300 hp left in it but who cares....

least favorite motors......

Honda!!!!! all of them .....

Nissan td27........yes I drive one and the motor is gutless and poorly designed.Ive got lets behind the water pump and the only way to fix them is pull the timing chest off!!! for 2 o rings.

2F over 200kms and 3 heads ,2 dissy's and 3 welsh plugs. It went but it just up to the task for a 1980 motor .

saab,sciania......all.

shadow

I'd have to say a Toyota 2.8 lt Diesel,dosnt make enough power to wear out!!!

Surely any Holden Red motor. 149 thru to 202.

I would hazard a guess that we've all been in possession of one, and it was okay?

I know it's not a current vehicle, but it has had a lot of time to prove itself.

My mum always used to say to me when I was a teenager, blowing the house down with my" Crap " music... ( Pink Floyd, Deep Purple.... ) "Ian, turn that shlt off, it's rubbish. The test for good music is if they keep playing it on the radio in 25 years time, then it's good."

Funny thing, I took her out the other day, and had the radio on, and they were playing... you guessed it..... Pink Floyd!!!!

She told me that thing in 1972.......

Cheers

Retro Wolf

TD42!! :-)) Tough as old boot leather!!!!

Holden 202???? I didn't think they were too reliable...had several as work vans way back when... ALL of 'em broke down at one stage or another, usually major!! .... thirsty as hell too! 11MPG on a good day, mind you we had 'em loaded to the gills with parts and tools etc.... My dad had a HT from new and passed it on to me about 1993, it had about 27 thousand on the clock, 186 motor and went like the clappers!!!!!!!! It WASN'T loaded admittedly but I always thought the 186 was heaps better than the 202.

ok a few people seem to have missed the bit about current production vehicle.
are we talking car/truck/4wd.

Ford Falcon

The TD42 in one of my GQ's has done 485000 km and is still running great. The other GQ also has a TD42 with 278000 km. I cant work out which is the best motor because they both run so well. If anything the one with 485000 is a little quieter than the other one.

Just to add to the confusion.

I once went a taxi that was an AU Falcon that had 880 thou on the clock (hot K's thou)
And my wife drives a 1990 Toyota Corolla that we have had since new and apart from normal maintenance like brake pads and stuff. We have only outlayed about $600 for repairs . 1, a head gasket and the 2nd for the rear break cylinders.

Good value I say.

But I'd still rather drive my Jack.

I have owned probably around 30or so vehicles from age 16 and have managed to blow them all up . There allbleepboxes , companies have the tecnology to build cars to last a life time , but why would they when theres so much money to be made in spare parts,

T H E M I G H T Y 4.2 N A T U R A L L A N D C R U I S E R

Someone had to shout it from the rooftops.

Bob

500hp v8 mack, cheers sparra

heaps seem to reckon the 4.2 nissan..but its underpowered. well, thats partly why it lasts isn't it? lots of big cylinders not doing much. probably my pick.

2.25 4 CYL PETROL Land Rover motor. Most reliable thing I've ever owned and yes I've had both Toyotas and Nissans. The 2.25 never, ever let me down, even when she was old and worn out and burning oil and all the rest of it she just kept on going. Drove it from Geelong to Melbourne once with basically no oil in it. Didn't seem to bother it to much.

I have heard many claim the 240D and 300D (1970s) mercedes as the most reliable vehicle of all time. give me a yapanese vehicle anyday tho.

Nissan 2.8 in both TD and TDi form (GQ and GU). Underpowered (in standard form) but you never hear of breakages.

and I still have to say

THE MIGHTY 4.2 NATURALLY ASPIRATED LANDCRUISER DIESEL

is the best and i will still shout it from the rooftops

Bob

I was talking to a taxi owner in Melbourne and he reckons the Falcon in-line 6 will out last the Holden V6 3 to 1. He has owned both.

Isusu Does it for me !!!

My last Rodeo a 2.6 petrol 4x4 did over 240,000 ks and didn't even look like packing it in when I traded up to a 2001 2.8 TD Rodeo.

Super reliable and the main reason I went Rodeo again!!!!

- Heard of another 2.6 petrol ( ...think it was on this forum ) a guy sold to a Sydney Butcher with over 300,000 ks and still going strong !!

Regards to all

LP