knowall:
HiI’ve got 37 trucks on the fleet, all tractors and MAN TGA’s and TGX have been the mainstay since 2003.
My original trucks had the Euro 2 460 engine - bloody marvellous!
Had quite a number of 430’s at Euro 3 - bloody good workhorse - become rattle traps and start drinking fuel c500k km
Had many 440’s at Euro 4 - not quite as good as the 430, but the TGX 440’s (of which I have seven '08 reg) have all had engine trouble valves, heads etc - all before 300k km.
Never again - they will skint you in the end!
We have a 2002 460 with 1.3 million on the clock…brilliant truck…and they are not all that complicated when you get to know your way around them.
Knowall…i would look at the EGR system if i were you…we are seeing a lot of similar problems with smaller diesels…Transits,Trafics,Vivaros etc giving huge EGR problems…of course not helped by main dealers who are really not too sure about what they are trying to fix…To comply with Euro 3 & 4 emissions,Manufacturers are using more and more EGR to reduce NOX gases…however,when the miles start to climb…the problems begin to appear…down on power…poor fuel consumption etc…clogging up valves…blowing up turbos etc…However…it can all be easily avoided with a good workshop who know what they are doing and some simple preventive maintenance