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So my 2.2TDCi engine has bitten the dust at 233,000 miles. Was sounding a bit tappety on occassion but on the way back home on the motorway a very loud tappety noise started (above the radio volume and my singing as I was alone in the car). I immediately stopped singing and turned the radio down and liftef off the throttle which resulted in a lot of clattery noise and then metal bouncing under the car or through the exhaust. This was accompanied with a cloud of white smoke in the rear view mirror which filled the 3 lanes of the motorway in such a way I could have started an 80's disco.

Oh well its a 11 year old car that cost me next to nothing and has 233,000 miles on it. Off to the scrap yard then.

Indeed no. The car was my brothers who had it from new and sold it to me as a run about for work. It had a baggy leaking suspension and the steering rack was notchy and the front was pockmarked like a teenager from the previously mentioned 80's disco. He wanted just a few hundred pounds and it has served me well for 20,000 miles. I had replaced the suspension which I discussed on these forums (Went for lowered eibach springs and not self-levelling that was on the car), a respray was done and the interior treated to a valet which made it look like a 20,000 mile car.

So my questions to gain a few opinions

1) Where to get the replacement engine. Do I risk e-bay or go for a reconditioned engine eg http://www.engine-shop.co.uk/ford-engines/product/54-ford-mondeo-2-2-tdci-engine-qjbb.html

2) Possibly need a new exhaust as there was no hole in the engine block and the clattering metal must have been through the exhaust. If so which exhaust to match up with question 3

3) Remap. Bluefin seems popular.

4) Inter-cooler. Again which one and is there a company that just does the lot.

Many thanks for reading

Rex
 
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