life expectancy of a w204 c180k blue efficiency?

[carsnstuff]

mine is 2009 with 130k on the clock currently... how many miles are the 1.6 supercharged lumps good for?? any known weak points or things that need doing? TIA

 

[carsnstuff]

oh very occasionally it starts missing but its cured by a quick on/off so suspect a coil

 

[Skd884]

199.999 miles.

 

[ALFAitalia]

129,000 miles!

 

[carsnstuff]

Lol no seriously...

 

[ALFAitalia]

Its just a case of when the cost of repairs to the rest of the car (including the engine) outweigh its value to you. Engines tend to outlast the rest of the car these days with even a modicum of care.....but rust will kill the body sooner or later......and whether that happens before some electrical, and no longer available, part (like a ECU) fails is anyone's guess. When I dropped the sump on my 170,000 mile Alfa derv you could still see the cross hatch makes on the bores.......its not pampered.....but I change the oil when I should and don't thrash it from cold..(even though I drive it pretty hard on occasions).......which is about all you can do. So yes if you can afford to keep replacing engine parts as they fail then it could live forever....like Triggers broom!.....but that wont happen. Who want to spend a grand to fix and engine on car worth a grand?....no one. Most dervs happily sail past 200,000 miles these days....even petrol's are doing it more and more (but the latest generation of small capacity highly boosted small petrol motors almost certainly wont last as long).

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Quarter of a million? But can you be bothered? (See Alfa above)

More if you’re in Germany and Eastern Europe

Auto Trader UK - New and Used Cars For Sale

 

[carsnstuff]

cool thanks for the replies, im pretty aware of the old om606 derv engines being indestructible and routinely going 500k plus... but a 1.6 petrol supercharged lol??

 

[SpikyMikey]

M271 engine?

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

cool thanks for the replies, im pretty aware of the old om606 derv engines being indestructible and routinely going 500k plus... but a 1.6 petrol supercharged lol??

See Alfa's comment.

We don't let cars get old, not because of the engine, but more because we can't be bothered and because they do have a minimum value broken as parts.

 

[carsnstuff]

M271 engine?

Yer 271.910

 

[SpikyMikey]

Yer 271.910

Timing chains and sprockets need keeping an eye on. And/or hydraulic tensioners.

 

[Rich764089]

Its just a case of when the cost of repairs to the rest of the car (including the engine) outweigh its value to you. Engines tend to outlast the rest of the car these days with even a modicum of care.....but rust will kill the body sooner or later......and whether that happens before some electrical, and no longer available, part (like a ECU) fails is anyone's guess. When I dropped the sump on my 170,000 mile Alfa derv you could still see the cross hatch makes on the bores.......its not pampered.....but I change the oil when I should and don't thrash it from cold..(even though I drive it pretty hard on occasions).......which is about all you can do. So yes if you can afford to keep replacing engine parts as they fail then it could live forever....like Triggers broom!.....but that wont happen. Who want to spend a grand to fix and engine on car worth a grand?....no one. Most dervs happily sail past 200,000 miles these days....even petrol's are doing it more and more (but the latest generation of small capacity highly boosted small petrol motors almost certainly wont last as long).

Kind of agree with this, but the problems with high mileage diesels these days are expensive....DPFs, EGRs, swirl flaps, etc often don't make it to 200k and aren't usually cheap fixes.....

 

[carsnstuff]

ah thanks Mikey, so had a little look after you said that and there is a video of a w203 timing chain change and the guy checks out with an endoscope how far the tensioner has traveled.. is this viewable on my engine??

and i take it the sprockets are just worn teeth to look out for

iv never had a high milage chain car

 

[robdmarsh]

I have a 2013 220 cdi estate which has done 167k miles. The exterior and interior are both in excellent condition for age. I discovered a couple of years ago that the bonnet had a bad respray at some point in its life and I thought about a proper respray but it would cost loads. So... I bought a replacement bonnet on ebay, easy - £160 including fitting. The car looks great now, in fact the car is still great now except the engine doesn't quite have the pull that it had despite a DPF clean. It still runs incredibly well besides that though and I get average 53mpg. So in answer to your question I think these cars can go on for a long time, well at least with this engine they can.

 

[SpikyMikey]

ah thanks Mikey, so had a little look after you said that and there is a video of a w203 timing chain change and the guy checks out with an endoscope how far the tensioner has traveled.. is this viewable on my engine??

and i take it the sprockets are just worn teeth to look out for

iv never had a high milage chain car

Stretched chains and worn sprockets, although after certain VIN numbers there was an upgrade on the sprockets I believe.
Have a search on the forum; there's a reasonable amount of good info here posted by people who have experience of this engine.