*Whats the future for diesel engines*
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Same boat as you
I'm after a nearly new car 15/16 plate (replacement for my car that my son written off) I've been looking at diesel but with the recent bad press +possible costs going sky high + depreciation and I'm now looking at a petrol version
Gutted man.
Hope your son wasn't injured.Too early to report as only picked it up Friday and just been pottering about. Showing about 35 at the moment as I've not been driving conservatively lol, miles left is saying 359 on a full tank. Honda say average 45mpg so hoping for close to that, and hoping for a few more miles than 359.
What car ?
Wouldn't really expect more then 35mpg out a 1.8 petrol (unless all your driving is on the motorway)
Gutted man.
Too early to report as only picked it up Friday and just been pottering about. Showing about 35 at the moment as I've not been driving conservatively lol, miles left is saying 359 on a full tank. Honda say average 45mpg so hoping for close to that, and hoping for a few more miles than 359.
No he wasn't injured(tho would have been if his mum had'nt stopped me) and neither did he have insurance or passed his test ...I was away in Amsterdam he'd smacked a curb smashed wheel under took out suspension and bottom of engine ..So I had to sell it on as is and didn't make much
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But to impose additional costs on people who already have diesel vehicles would be a monstrous injustice!
yeah but it'll be "reducing pollution" by all you scummy people who bought diesels because they were cheap to run and cheap to tax and are now somehow monsters for getting them, as well as "reducing the deficit".
win win for the government
I've used 10ltrs of adblue in 2000 miles in the Ranger. I can see this getting annoying.
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So far, the implication is that you can.... but you won't get as much as if you bought the latest übergreen swank wagon.
How does that help those of us who can't afford even a cheap 2nd hand car?
You have to press a button to do that?
What's wrong with a blast down the motorway?
Does your car not automatically start recirculating once it gets up to temp?
I assume he meant the cabin air recirculate button.
42 this morning on the motorway, now reading 400 miles to empty so happy with that.
That's a lot for 2000 miles. The 3008 is 12K or so on a 17 litre max tank..
Am sure I remember that diesel fuel used to cost a fair bit more then petrol years ago
Diesel actually used to be cheaper than petrol a while back, before it got trendy and they had to add an extra digit to the price boards.
Soldato
Wow and that stuff is not that cheap I just looked. 85p per litre if bought in bulk, so over £4 added to a 100 litres of fuel for your ranger example. Wouldn't buy a used car that had this system. Could the bottom fall out of the used diesel market in a few years time cos of all this crap no one wants?
Shell have 1.5 ltrs of the stuff for £9.99 which isn't funny when a tank is 20 ltrs
Well firstly the emissions test will be a mandatory part of the MOT so it will be an instant fail if you refuse to let the garage test your vehicle.
Secondly the testing equipment is out there now, we have been testing the systems that will go to market and making sure they are reliable and consistent.
None of the systems need anything dismantling or attaching to the car, it is a probe that is put into the exhaust pipe exactly like the current emissions testing equipment.
The systems will be out there within a few months, and the MOT will be changed to reflect it by the end of this year.
Soldato
I am perfectly happy with any policy that will discourage people from buying NEW diesel cars (IE a policy to De-Diesel the PLG market over the next 10-15 years or so)
But to impose additional costs on people who already have diesel vehicles would be a monstrous injustice!
Yep keep all the stinking, filthy polluting ones and stop people buying the cleaner ones, what a sound plan.