I believe but not certain, the pump on the OM606 3 litre as found in MB E's is inline, up to 1996, 250 versions continued until about 2000 but unsure what sort of pumps were involved.

The Citroen C15 van finished production around 2005, still on rotary mechanical pump, possibly CAV as found in 205 it was based on...just looked it up and it appears some had the Bosch pump fitted..

I imagine such mechanical designs are still being used and made in places like India.

Edited by gordonbennet on 09/04/2012 at 08:56

''Did PSA continue to use mechanical pumps on the DW8 right up to the end, or were they electronically controlled distriibuter pumps''

I'm not sure, all i know is that i delivered lots of C15's brand new at the time, and long after production ended, they were very cheap....they were like old school Diesels of the past, needing a full timespan of glow plug to get them to fire up, i suspect the engine compartment was exactly as lifted from a 205d.

I liked them a lot, they were simple no nonsense vehicles 15 years out of date (and none the worse for that) with minimal things likely to ever go wrong, manual everything, and very comfortable with super pliable suspension, no radio, single wiper, no central locking, manual windows etc.

The last fully mechanincal pump that PSA used was on the Jan '96 reg 2.1 XM' estates, after that time they used EPIC semi electronic pumps and were all auto's that's why I always went for that model, I had four all with the reg N---YBL, I'm still running one.

I think the Xantias and ZX's may have used them a bit later but they had an armoured fuel solonoid that you couldn't get at.

Edited by Peter.N. on 11/04/2012 at 13:41