I owned an '05 CRD and dumped it happily when it was just past 100K. Leave it to Daimler/Chrysler (at the time) to take a perfectly good engine and totally FUBAR it in a complete POS. I've never had a vehicle self destruct so quickly. I had to fix more things on it in 100K than I've done on my TDI in 300K.
Sticking brakes, bad u-joints, bad rear control arm bushings, bad motor mounts, blown intercooler hoses, leaking injector seal, it ate EGR valves every 20K and the intake FCV ("throttle" motor) every 40K.
They had the EGR rate turned up so high the thing was choking on it's own sh!t all the time. Finally I installed a "cheat" box to disable it and it made it into a whole new vehicle. It quit blowing black smoke all the time, got better mileage, ran better, oil quit turning to goo after 5000 miles from soot loading, and obviously the EGR was going to last a lot longer
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That said, I
loved driving it. Yeah, seat comfort was prison cell quality, but it was a fun little buggar. I just got really sick of fixing it. I would have kept it as a "hobby" car but it just wasn't in the cards at the time.
Chris