Re: Diesel cars
Yes this is universally accepted now . If you cannot give the vehicle a couple of decent main road journeys at 40 mph or more a month go petrol .Re: Diesel cars
Fine if that suits you. I'd like to stick with diesel, but the new engines with DPF just don't seem compatible with the type of driving we do here. It's my wife's car and she (very reasonably) wants a car she can drive according to her needs and the road conditions locally, not one she has to drive to suit the car's needs.Re: Diesel cars
Mine is a diesel, I don't have a high mileage and the car is 12 years old, but never had that problem. I mostly use it locally but to be fair it does get longer runs of 20 mins to an hour at **cough cough** the speed limit of 90kph at least one a fortnight so maybe that's why.Re: Diesel cars
I prefer diesel to petrol, and my local garage reckons that the way I drive it does more harm than good to the engine (that's him referring that I drive like a chauffer).Re: Diesel cars
Margoletta, only cars built after 2008 have particulate filters so your car, like my current one is not affected.Re: Diesel cars
The problem of diesel engines 'sooting' is not a new problem. Marine engineers discovered this problem during WW2 when, convoys, crossing the Atlantic were reduced to speeds (6 knots) by the speed of the slowest ship in the convoy. Diesel engines 'sooted up' and required the ship to run at speed for a few miles to clear the soot from the diesel engine and exhaust (funnel).Re: Diesel cars
I understood what you were saying GW, and I am aware of the DP filters in the newer cars but as Joe is saying this is not a new thing that diesels should have a blow out periodically otherwise the performance will suffer.
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