Everyone hypes up the Toyota Hiace with the 1KD engine like it’s the best diesel engine.
But man… if you’ve ever owned one, utajua ile stress mtu huupitia.
Lets start with the never ending nozzle problems.
it’s always something. Nozzles this, nozzles that. You fix them, and a few thousand kilometers later, you’re back at it.
Then kuna hio Turbo ya upus. Another failure point you have to deal with every now and then.
And here’s the stressing thing about it. replacing nozzles sounds cheap, until you do it three times in a year because of Carbon build up.
Add in ECU issues, wiring gremlins, clogged EGR valve, maybe a faulty pump no one bothered to check, and now you’re spending more on diagnostics than your engines worth.
Btw, there is a KDE hiace on sale ya route ya Meru. Its already being put up on sale because ya kuchemka. Hata haijaenda sana.
Meanwhile, bonobos will continually ignore the Nissan N350 – not flashy, not loud, just works.
It doesn’t throw tantrums over injectors and turbos every other month. But elders like @Yuletapeli would rather buy an expensive hiace or a hilux just because of the Toyota cult mentality.
If you are running a 1KD engine on a jalopy that is grounded, leteni hekaya elders.
Anyway, rant over. Curious to hear if anyone else here is done with the 1KD hype.