I had a PD vRS and it had ECU, injector, coolant, DPF and other 'undiagnosed' issues which I now think will have been the injectors. I am now thinking of a CR vRS. Have all these issues been sorted?

Ta

Steve

I believe they took the move to CR as an opportunity to sort most of this. No injector issues that I know of, no porous heads and much less risk of DPF issues too due to extra injector control allowing artificial increases in exhaust tempratures - the PD couldn't do this. Additionally I'm betting the CR burns cleaner anyway again due to more accurate injection control (frequency, duration etc).

Only issues that can crop up are DPF sensor failure (if you have the old US built sensor) and there is what can only be described as hesitation when experiencing negative G (hump backed bridges etc) on the CR. I've had the sensor fail and the hesitation happens quite a bit on hilly roads.

The CR is much smoother and (much) quieter but not as punchy as the PD - I've driven both and it is noticeable.

I've just come back from testing a CR car and it is a lot smoother than the PD. It lacks the whoosh of torque but that is a good thing as tying to get a smooth launch in the wet from a junction in a PD is a toss up between a stall and legendary wheel spin

Steve

I've just come back from testing a CR car and it is a lot smoother than the PD. It lacks the whoosh of torque but that is a good thing as tying to get a smooth launch in the wet from a junction in a PD is a toss up between a stall and legendary wheel spin

Steve

Fully agree, especially on the budgets my car came fitted with

The CR so far is turning out to be a good engine in terms of reliability, although it is still relatively early.

Go for it would be my recommendation!

I can report no issues at all so for on the 170 CR in my Yeti, 57,000 miles done so far in 14 months, third service next week and it hasn't had any issues at all.

But then again my PD passat (130) did 135,000 in three years and that had no issues either.