Glen, I have read all of this thread with great interest, and also drive a diesel 2.8 turbo Colorado which is now 5 years old and has done some 90,000 k's.
Its main job is to pull a caravan around Australia most of the time, which it dose quite well and fingers crossed I have had no major issues with it.
It is always serviced at the recommended intervals at the Holden dealer ship that sold it, however I did the last 90k service myself and found they could not be trusted to do the job.
They were very incompetent in their approach to the work that was suppose to have been carried out and missed a lot of important stuff and I have absolute proof of this, at least i know the filters and other jobs were carried out according to the service manual when I did it myself.
I know this is a bit off track and has nothing to do with the initial post, but i thought i would just throw that in.
Glen I read your last post on the the way people drive there diesel vehicles and you see stupid things from some drivers, what do you mean by that please.
I never flog my rig when towing or otherwise and drive at about 90ks in a gear not making the engine work to hard with good rev's.
It seems to manage very well then and the temp is sitting quite low.
Of coarse there are times when it has to work a bit harder when climbing some steep hills for example and gets a bit hotter, but soon settles again once on flatter black stuff.
So Glen what is a stupid way of driving a diesel,
this is not meant to be a trick question or be offensive, but i am truly inquisitive and interested to know.
Thanks for that in advance.
Leon
