I have the opportunity to purchase one of these for 10K, but it has 150K miles on it. I know it's a diesel, so the engine should be good to go if maintenance was kept up on it. What other things should I look out for that aren't obvious?
Lastly, do any of you have 150K miles or 240K km on your CRD? How is it holding up?
Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I have almost 186,000 miles on mine. Runs great and I can still get 26 MPG highway with it. The one you are looking at, being 2WD has higher gearing in it, so you could get 30 MPG or more on the highway with a tune.
The turbo inlet seal can leak onto the swirl motor causing it to fail and putting the engine into limp mode. That can be eliminated with a resistor or a tune. That's about the most problematic issue on the CRD.
Other than basic vehicle items to look for, just make sure everything on it works! Good luck!
I tow around 5k lbs fairly regularly and I would love to have the 3.07's in mine. I don't see it being an issue unless you are also running larger tires.
3.73's with the NAG1 trans in the CRD is too much gear. I did a comparison between gear ratios with the 545rfe and the NAG1 awhile back in a thread where someone was talking about doing a swap.
IIRC its more in line with 4.11's-4.5x's and the 545rfe. (due to the differences between the ratios in the NAG1 vs 545rfe)
3.07's would be perfect for the CRD.
On the upside this makes the CRD equipped WK the best option to run taller tires.
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