A price worth paying to avoid the smell of diesel

 

Really?

 

I use over 800 litres of diesel per week and do not get any on me when I fill up so there is no smell involved.

Unleaded petrol does not exactly smell nice either.

I fill the car up not wash in it......also the mpg of a petrol engine in a car that size wouldn't be funny

I would drive a V8 if I could afford it but have to put up with a diesel in the big car, still the Fabia is petrol so that's my fun car

800 litres a week, that's some mileage. I only do around 8k a year, and am happy to pay the petrol cost. I just don't like the slightest whiff of diesel. That and TCP are two smells I'd ban.

Literally standing in skoda dealers now.. have lifted the boot carpets on diesel display models.. only visible adblue filler cap on the 2l yeti....

i drive an old mk1 diesel, 90horses and 52mpg over the last 50k miles... ill keep it as is thanks.

Really?

I use over 800 litres of diesel per week and do not get any on me when I fill up so there is no smell involved.

Unleaded petrol does not exactly smell nice either.

Yes, bit not all of us have staff for that kind of thing [emoji12]

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I wish! 

 

The vast majority of it goes in the truck... which is quite easy to get a ‘splash back’ if you are not careful.

I wish! 

 

The vast majority of it goes in the truck... which is quite easy to get a ‘splash back’ if you are not careful.

Yes, that comes with advancing years, I'm sorry to say.

No you won't. You just get the hassle of filling up with fuel much more often

 

It is one of the few plus points with diesel over petrol ie greater range.

 

Not helped by manufacturers continually reducing the size of fuel tanks ie 55 litre and then 50 litres etc.

 

When I sometime do 400 miles in a day travelling in some cars that have needed filling up twice just seems crazy.

 

Diesels sometimes get longer interval between services.

 

If you live and work where diesel is 10 to 20% cheaper than petrol ie most of Europe all a fairly no brainer.

 

In UK petrol all the way if you get the right models with decent range.

 

Ad Blue another negative aspect of diesels.

 

Somewhat surprise George O did not hit fuel in the Budget considering the UK finances. (But the we are getting hit with IPT, Council tax and a host of other stealth taxes). 

Thread revival rather than starting a new one.

I have been trying to figure out my use of Ad-Blue on a Euro 6 2.0TDI SCR as the 72 litre tank did well for the first 7,000 miles plus, 

then better the second time i filled up and now seems to be using it even more efficiently.  

Must just be how it is, no device or software from VW that is causing this.

 

Just seen BBC Fake Britain showing something i had no idea about, which was HGV's fitted the devices to show that they are using Ad-Blue and they have it in the tank, 

but they are running without Ad-Blue reducing the engines emissions.

Illegal obviously.

http://adblueemulator.webs.com 

 

 

Edited 25 September, 20178 yr by Headinawayoffski

Perhaps your adblue injector is getting clogged up and dispensing less than the electronics intends. Not sure if there's a NOx sensor downstream of the adblue 'cat' to feed back info about what's really going on (as opposed to calculated)?

 

Funnily enough, I spent a couple of years of my life in my last job (around 8-9 years ago) making endless prototypes of Adblue sensors to be fitted to tanks in HGVs to tell whether the contents were really Adblue, and at the right concentration. Never got it to work with the technology we were using though.

If being clogged then that will not be picked up on unless some fault occurs / warning light or fail to start,

and maybe not even at 3 years old at a MOT, so much the same as many other Euro 6 TDI / SCR's out on the road.

 

1 hour ago, Headinawayoffski said:

If being clogged then that will not be picked up on unless some fault occurs / warning light or fail to start,

and maybe not even at 3 years old at a MOT, so much the same as many other Euro 6 TDI / SCR's out on the road.

 

Actually, having googled a little, there is a NOx sensor after all the aftertreatment gear, and all manner of valves/pumps/heaters and sensors in the Adblue delivery system, so it ought to be able to pick up anomalous behaviour.

 

Edit: Link with diagram that I meant to include, I assume it's approximately the same as on your car: http://www.auto-news.de/test/einzeltest/bildergalerie_vw-passat-variant-bluetdi-im-test-euro-6-per-scr-schonheute_id_23922&picindex=16

 

 

Edited 25 September, 20178 yr by Wino

On a vag vehicle you could fool it in vcds the same as disabling start/stop.