New technology always takes a while to bed in and it is common practice to let the customer do the final reliability testing. There are also a lot more diesels around these days so that must be part of the reason why we see more problems not to mention the fact that forums like this allow you to hear of far more tales of woe (and fixes) than you used to do around work, friends and relatives. The new regulations mean that an old style diesel would never pass, my old XUD would only just pass the old emissions test even though it ran without a hitch for 180k. I think it is still cost effective buying a diesel but it is a much closer decision than it used to be, and I would miss the mid range torque if I went back to a petrol. Duncan

Hi, thanks to everyone contributing to this thread, it really helped me sort out the problem with my car, similar symptoms to several others, loss of power (sometimes completely stalling) and glow plug light flashing. It seemed to happen every time the revs rose above 2000. The answer was the camshaft position sensor, £15 and five minutes work (after several hours spent searching the net) Duncan