Those 2.2 engines have a reputation for being frugal but like all diesels there are problems.

Some problems include;

Cracked Manifold,

Timing chain rattles

Clutch/DMF problems

Thanks for the opinions and link to the Accord site, that's a useful resource.

Reading around and doing some sums, it would cost me and extra £363/year in fuel costs to go with the petrol engine. (2 litre V-Tech versus 2.2 DTi)

For that money I think I'd be happier sticking with a petrol engine than risking the extra complexity and servicing costs and potential faults in a turbo deisel. It's not enough of an incentive to go for a deisel engine.

Petrol engines seem to be better understood by the average mechanic than modern Turbo Deisels so more chance of a cheap indy repair/maintenace deal.

I'm sure the deisels are good, bur for me just now, not worth the plunge.

It's a pity because I'm a big fan of the design principles of an engine that was invented to run on peanut oil and produce very litte wasted heat- genius old Rudolph Deisel was. (He committed suicide (possibly) by jumping off a cross channel ferry after being shafted by comercial opposition to his invention)