Cam belt

**ed taylor** · 5th January 2007, 15:18

A mate of mine is after a vectra c diesel, but wants one with a chain rather than a cam belt, which one,s have the chain to drive the cam shafts, please.

**Gsi3.2** · 5th January 2007, 18:06

He needs a DTi Ed... the 1.9 and 3ltr CDTi's are belt driven...

he may be lucky and pick up a late registered 2.2DTI with an 04 plate on it..

**ed taylor** · 5th January 2007, 18:28

Cheers mark, he did mention a 2.2 dti, so that looks like the one for him then.

**VauxVeteran** · 5th January 2007, 19:13

I saw a few on Auto Trader going reasonable today Ed, especially the 7k 2.2DTi Elite, check it out, there were 2002 DTi's starting at about 4k I think. hth

DTi, might be slower, but at least it gets there.

**ed taylor** · 5th January 2007, 20:19

Originally Posted by VauxVeteran

I saw a few on Auto Trader going reasonable today Ed, especially the 7k 2.2DTi Elite, check it out, there were 2002 DTi's starting at about 4k I think. hth

DTi, might be slower, but at least it gets there.

VV it might have been the one my mate was looking at, he did mention auto trader.. small world "eh".

**Drinky** · 5th January 2007, 23:06

Mrs D's is a 2.2DTI on an 04 place and it rocks much better than these new fangled CDTI jobbies !!!!!!!!

**Gsi3.2** · 5th January 2007, 23:10

Seems to be far more reliable than our family 150 CDTi Chris..

..

**cp123** · 20th July 2007, 14:10

Is the old 2.0 DTI chain driven ?????

**VauxVeteran** · 20th July 2007, 14:16

Originally Posted by cp123

Is the old 2.0 DTI chain driven ?????

Yep hth

**Ste** · 20th July 2007, 14:21

To be honest, I would ask why your friend seems to have a dislike to cam belts??

If they are serviced properly, what's the worry??
The CDTi has a greater power density and is capable of more than the DTi is, as it's common rail. Don't get me wrong, the 2.0 DTi was good in my old Vec B, but why the paranoia??