wouldnt want to argue with any one or but anyone off but my 2.3 lasted a month constant over heating caused a waped head, did the head/ gasket then the oil pump died (or shall we say i had no oil pressure at all) on the m25 towing a car on a trailer and tried to get it to next services 2 mile ish away, lets just say it warped another head that day and i never got to the services cause of overheating when the oil pressure problem happened and all fluids in engine bay mixed ,oil in the water and water in the oil and oil and water all over the sides of the engine then the engine went bang in a big way, all i'm going to say is couldn't actually see what was in my boot there was that much smoke,
i got the bloody thing home tried to fill the water up and ended up filling the sump up with water,
the constant over heating i never did figure out what that was causing it, it had new water pump and rad and new stat and it always went straight to 3/4 on the gauge when it warmed up,
i now got a 2.8 tdi and not had a problem with the engine, if i ever got rid of the 2.8 the only engines i would ever look at is the 2.8 tdi or the 2.5 tds,
2.3 td lwb died in spectacular style when all liquids in engine bay ended up in the sump....
2.8 tdi lwb sold her and still regret it as she was one hell of a truck
just brought 2.5 tds lwb