When Did They Introduce The Common Rail Diesel Engine?

[zeuren]

Hi all

 

Question - What year did they introduce the common rail diesel engine into the Galaxy mk2?

 

My 2000X is the old AUY 1.9 engine and I run it on biodiesel. But its about had it and I'm wondering how long they kept these engines in production. I would like to buy a newer Galaxy and still run it on biodiesel.

 

Thanks if anyone can help.

 

jules

[insanitybeard]

The Mk2 Galaxy was never fitted with commonrail diesel engines, the PD engines they utilised are not the same as a commonrail diesel- see here. The Mk3 Galaxies will all have commonrail fuel systems on the Diesels, but they are of true Ford manufacture, unlike the Mk2 which is basically VW tech. The last of the Mk2 Sharans and Alhambras may have had commonrail lumps (I stand to be corrected here), but unlike the Mk2 Galaxy which finished production in 2006, they continued to be built until 2010 ish.