Re: Diesel cars
Originally Posted by
Grumblewagon
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Just had the wife's diesel VW Golf MoT'd and I mentioned to the garage manager that as it was getting a bit long in the tooth, we were looking for a new car - ideally a diesel. He just shook his head and suggested that I reconsider.
So, I did some research and found that everyone recommends- Mainly Low mileage trips - choose Petrol.
Mainly High mileage trips - choose Diesel.
Reason seems mostly to do with the 'Particulate filter' getting clogged up and needing to 'regenerate'. This needs certain conditions to be met including a run of about 15 mins at fairly constant revs after the engine is hot. This also consumes extra diesel to burn off the particles in the filter. Our current car does not have a filter, but all newer diesels do.
On discussing this again at the garage (who are a top class bunch), it appears that they are doing 4 or 5 costly repairs to particulate filters every week!
So much as we love our trusty diesel, it looks like the next wagon will have to be a petrol one.
Anyone had any experience of this problem?
I knew about it Grumble.
Friends gave up on their diesel cars for that reason years ago.
It's one of the reasons that i decided against diesels - we only do short journey most of the time. stevmk2