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Damn, nobody seems to know anything about these little buggers.

Go the Megane! Meganes are awesome. If you want to check out and ask Megane owners etc, try this website Aussiefrogs as it is the largest online French car community around, with several thousand members and a large Renault community.

I posted a similar topic in the Tarago forum, but I thought some of you might not go there much, so here goes. We have just got a Tarago diesel with 2C engine ( OHC diesel) and all I can find out about them, is that they were in Japan market Corollas, and here only in Taragos and maybe Liteaces. Does anyone know if they were in anything else? Can you still get parts for them? What if anything is interchangeable with the OHC Hiace diesels? I think the water pump is stuffed, and one injector leaks air so it has to be bled and primed after sitting overnight, but it is so economical and not bad to drive, especially in the city. It is a bit slow in hilly country. Can anyone help???

We have just purchased a 1985 tarago with a diesel engine factory fitted. It is a 2C 2 litre OHC diesel, very similar in appearance to the L motor in Hiaces. When I rang the local Toyota dealer to ask about parts availability he had never even heard of a diesel Tarago, and it is the only one I can remember ever seeing. Can anyone tell me anything about them? Such as, how long were they available, and how many were sold here? Also, are parts hard to get for them, and how much if anything is the same as teh Hiace diesel? It has an overheating problem, which I have traced to water being flicked around by the timing belt from the region of the water pump. This looks like it will be a real sod to get off. I have been able to ascertain that the 2C motor was used in Corollas (not in Aus though0, Taragos, and possibly Liteaces. Was it used in anything else? Are there any bad habits of the motor? I used to drive a Nissan E20 which only really shared its motor with 2 other models, and was a ***** to get parts for.