Originally Posted By: DS9
Originally Posted By: jrustles
Originally Posted By: bigjl
You will have issues QPete.
Short trips round town are bad for even 10yr old turbo diesels. Variable vane turbos sieze up. Egrs clog up. Inlet manifold fills up with ssme rubbish as egr. Like a soft sticky tar.
Now with dpfs they are almost a no go for town work.
agree.
short trips, modern diesels = problems waiting
Oh, really - yes it is.
But you shoud say this to many taxi drivers here in Belgrade (3 milion people capital od Serbia).
About 50% of them (in total ~ 10,000 licenced taxi vehicles) drives (common rail) diesel cars that are old about 10 yaers, and tipicaly without DPF/FAP. And most of these cars have been purchased/imported used from western europe with mileage not less than 100,000 km, often much more.
But they know they should change oil regulary every ~10,000 km.
My beloved wife drives litle diesel car - Citroen C3 1.4 HDi 8V, 2006. (same as peugeot 206, same engine) w/o DPF. And it`s quite_ok/superb for city crowd and short trips.
But I know that it is better to put 5W-30, a little bit thinner (but also recomended by manufacturer) oil (ACEA C2, PSA B71 2290).
Acording board computer for last 2000 km. an average speed was 22 km/h, diesel comsuption 5.5 L /100 km.
Oil consumption ~1.5 L / 12,000 km (mesured by me)
Winter temperature (sometimes)-20 C, summer +40 C.
However, diesels with DPF/FAP are other ball gome.
For this reason, important message for UK drivers
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-rules-for-mot-to-test-for-diesel-particulate-filter
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Yes, driving cars = problems waiting
I wonder how UK authorities are going to confirm the DPF hasn't been bypassed via internal straight pipe and/or hollowed out? The tuners in the UK already do this.