How to improve my Fabia mk1 VRS emmisions

[Breezy_Pete]

20 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

the theoretical correct answer is to buy a newer model of car for lower emissions

Fixed.

[rogerwa]

I actually know of a person who has taken an old power unit from a Tesla Model S and put it into a VW Splitty Campervan. Have not seen it yet, but the anticipation is wonderful. But really haven’t considered it for the Fabia..............yet!

[VWD]

First off- how often do you give it a blast. On my car, I'd had emissions just below the limit and EGR/shut off valve problems for a while. This year, I decided to fuel up at a place a few miles up the road, and with a DC on the way- a chance to open it up.  This year,emmissions were a lot lower. So it's not all about buying a car with lower emissions.  That said, mine is a toddler with only 95k  on the clock, and for the past few years only doing circa 2.5k between MOT.

Secondly- has anyone looked at the Wheeler Dealer engine clean episode, where Ed took a car way over the top on emissions, gave it the treatment and  brought the figures down to half the pre-treatment ones. Cost- I can't remember, but certainly a lot less than £100

[sepulchrave]

1 hour ago, Wino said:

Fixed.

 

No, newer engines do have better emissions, they're just not as good as they claim, a Euro 5 engine is not dirtier than a Euro 4 just because there was a scandal.

 

It's the law of diminishing returns, a manufacturer has to spend twice as much to get a 10% improvement, it's the same with performance, you try and get 10% more power out of a BMW 3.2 M3 engine, it's damn nearly impossible, the engine was almost perfect when it left the factory.

[Breezy_Pete]

So not worth changing engines, or cars, in the pursuit of emissions improvements that may only be a tiny bit better, on some measures.

[amwphotos]

The cleanest new diesel engines in real world testing are cleaner than dirty petrols, depends on which you'd like to compare. As it stands, you would have to get a car averaging 80mpg to offset the carbon used in building a new car compared to keeping your older fabia.

[sepulchrave]

21 minutes ago, Wino said:

So not worth changing engines, or cars, in the pursuit of emissions improvements that may only be a tiny bit better, on some measures.

 

Exactly.

 

15 minutes ago, amwphotos said:

The cleanest new diesel engines in real world testing are cleaner than dirty petrols, depends on which you'd like to compare. As it stands, you would have to get a car averaging 80mpg to offset the carbon used in building a new car compared to keeping your older fabia.

 

Precisely, by far the greenest thing you can do is to STOP CONSUMING, buy a decent secondhand specimen and run it into the ground, do this for every major purchase, cars, washing machines etc.

 

I don't buy anything big new, I only buy quality older things, I have Bosch and Miele stuff and I fix it if it goes wrong, I hardly ever have to throw anything away because it's beyond repair.

My old Bosch dishwasher packed up recently, I took the circuit board out and found I just needed to reflow all the solder joints, popped it back in and hey presto good as new.

Edited 22 November, 2017 by sepulchrave