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[DimPrawn]

And then your diesel needs the particulate filter changed....

BMW 530 3.0 03/06 ON DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER DPF on eBay!
KIA CARENS 2.0 09/06 ON DIESEL PARTICULATE FILTER DPF on eBay!

...and your fuel savings against a much more pleasant petrol car are gone.

[AtW]

£729.39 for a Kia part?

[DimPrawn]

£729.39 for a Kia part?

They're all that price and that's actually very cheap. BMW will charge you £1300 for one.

[AtW]

They're all that price and that's actually very cheap. BMW will charge you £1300 for one.

My PUG 307 particulate filter cost I think £300 - from main dealer.

Newer ones supposed to last much longer - I had mine changed after 60k miles.

[DimPrawn]

Mondeo

Ford Mondeo Hatchback 2.0 TDCi 140 Edge 5dr Specifications - What Car?

2.0 Diesel 48p per mile


Ford Mondeo Hatchback 1.6 160 Ecoboost Edge S/S 5dr Specifications - What Car?

1.6 Turbo Petrol 49p per mile



Petrol car is costing you 1p a mile more to run. Big diesel savings eh?

[AtW]

Aye, current petrol engines certainly much better than they used to be.

[TimberWolf]

Diesel fuel has 20% more energy per unit volume than petrol, plus:

• They burn less fuel than a petrol engine performing the same work, due to the engine's higher temperature of combustion and greater expansion ratio.[1] Gasoline engines are typically 30 percent efficient while diesel engines can convert over 45 percent of the fuel energy into mechanical energy[26] (see Carnot cycle for further explanation).
• They have no high voltage electrical ignition system, resulting in high reliability and easy adaptation to damp environments. The absence of coils, spark plug wires, etc., also eliminates a source of radio frequency emissions which can interfere with navigation and communication equipment, which is especially important in marine and aircraft applications.
• The life of a diesel engine is generally about twice as long as that of a petrol engine[27] due to the increased strength of parts used. Diesel fuel has better lubrication properties than petrol as well.
  
• Diesel engines are more efficient than gasoline (petrol) engines of the same power rating, resulting in lower fuel consumption. A common margin is 40 percent more miles per gallon for an efficient turbodiesel.

Diesel engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

makes diesels sound like petrol engines shouldn't even exist.

[BrilloPad]

About time we got UK Engineers to create Electric cars - also on coal/nuclear power stations.

And the scientists can work on fusion....

[TimberWolf]

About time we got UK Engineers to create Electric cars - also on coal/nuclear power stations.

And the scientists can work on fusion....

But then tax revenues would go down, unless they put up road tax by 2 million %.


http://www.petrolprices.com/the-price-of-fuel.html

Nice little earner.