Snowbird
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I have the Fiat 2.8 turbo diesel in my 2000 Hymer 754. How do I tell whether its a 2.8 tdi or a 2.8 jtd. What is the difference and how can I tell which one it is.
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You mean 2.8 i.d Td?I really really rate the 2.8 JTD.
More or less bulletproof; wonderfully simple; very little to go wrong, spares dead cheap and available all over Europe, servicing easy peasy, and just chugs along forever if looked after. Every garage mechanic across Europe can probably do anything on them. Breakers yards are full of secondhand parts.
No expensive or highly nickable Catalytic converter; no DPF to block up, no fancy canbus, no complexity in the ecu with limp mode that engages as soon as a butterfly lands on the bonnet.
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You mean 2.8 i.d Td?
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When we bought our 'van (see left) we did not have the knowledge to understand the minutiae of engines fitted to Fiats.
As a result we have a Late September 2007 first Registered 'van, fitted with the 2.8JTD engine.
I suppose what I'm highlighting is that the 'cutoff' date for the Fiat 2.8 lump is not necessarily 2006.
Certain manufacturers were that besotted with turning out the X250 front end fitted with 'Juddergate' 2.3 engines in 2006 that some X244 2.8 front ends were left behind. (THANK GOD!!!)
Yes. Don't confuse the date of chassis cab manufacture with the often much later date that the converter who then bought that chassis cab added the body on the top/ back; and then the further often again much later date that the more completed and retail-sold motorhome was first registered for road use.
What you've got is a chassis cab including all engine etc mechanicals made by Fiat in 2006.
That was bought by your converter then, but by the time they'd got a specific sales order and turned it into a motorhome, and sent it to the retail dealer who flogged it retail and then registered it to the first "owner", the original vehicle (and its tyres etc) was already at least a year old. So a 2007 MH on a 2006 chassis.
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I would start a new thread. 35MPG on a tag axle, wow.....I have a Hobby 750 tag axle 2.8 JTD year 2000/01 and the engine has done 30,000 mile is it worth getting the engine :mapped: and what improvements would it make. The performance seems ok to me and I get nearly 35mpg at a constant 55mph on a motorway.
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I have a Hobby 750 tag axle 2.8 JTD year 2000/01 and the engine has done 30,000 mile is it worth getting the engine :mapped: and what improvements would it make. The performance seems ok to me and I get nearly 35mpg at a constant 55mph on a motorway.
In my dreamsSurely not 35mpg on a big tag axle van?
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Is it a JTD at 2001?? 35mpg don’t think so -25 maybeI have a Hobby 750 tag axle 2.8 JTD year 2000/01 and the engine has done 30,000 mile is it worth getting the engine :mapped: and what improvements would it make. The performance seems ok to me and I get nearly 35mpg at a constant 55mph on a motorway.
Yeh, that’s more like mine.Is it a JTD at 2001?? 35mpg don’t think so -25 maybe
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