On 08/07/2021 at 10:32, SurreyJohn said:

Firstly not aware of anywhere that is proposing to ban euro6 engined vehicles

 

The hybrid makes sense for all journeys (and particularly short journeys providing you have home charger), rather pointless is you do not have charger at either home or work.

 

The diesel seems to need more maintenance when it gets older, so not great idea if you intend to keep it, and there are questions over the reliability of emissions equipment (which can be very expensive to repair if it goes wrong)

 

Petrol seems to be a safe choice, and won’t suffer from city folk commenting on the rattle.

 

Remember all the latest new cars engine mapping seem to work better with DSG boxes, not that many bigger cars are sold with manual boxes anymore, so anything manual is probably older gearbox design biding it’s time until they finally retire it.

 

 

Interesting,I always thought diesel car lasted longer than petrol cars?then you say problrms with these car when they get older,I have never had a problems with any diesel cars and one of them I was doing 40000 miles a year.my last diesel car had 110000 miles on the clock and again had no problem with engine or anything else that comes to mind.with proper maintenance I cannot see any major problems using a diesel car.just my opinion.

2 hours ago, Joss1733 said:

Interesting,I always thought diesel car lasted longer than petrol cars?then you say problrms with these car when they get older,I have never had a problems with any diesel cars and one of them I was doing 40000 miles a year.my last diesel car had 110000 miles on the clock and again had no problem with engine or anything else that comes to mind.with proper maintenance I cannot see any major problems using a diesel car.just my opinion.

It’s not the Diesel engine, it’s the newish emissions add on that is the expensive problem if it goes wrong.   You may have had diesel cars in the past, but they wouldn’t have been fitted with euro 6d equipment, and obviously anything not fitted cannot go wrong as isn’t there.

Even Skoda have recently decided that the Kodiaq vRS will be petrol only, remains to be seen how much longer they offer a diesel variant in Octavia vRS

 

 

Interesting never heard anyone saying euro6 were having problems.i told a mechanic what car I was getting and he said it is very good car and the only problems were the soft ware but it should all be sorted by end of July if not before.i will look into it a bit further.thank you for the info

48 minutes ago, Joss1733 said:

Interesting never heard anyone saying euro6 were having problems.i told a mechanic what car I was getting and he said it is very good car and the only problems were the soft ware but it should all be sorted by end of July if not before.i will look into it a bit further.thank you for the info

For clarity the latest cars are euro 6d RDE step2,

not plain euro6 which was rather easier to meet with less equipment 

 

Might be worth checking which version your mechanic was referring to

 

 

Edited 13 July, 20214 yr by SurreyJohn

6 minutes ago, SurreyJohn said:

For clarity the latest cars are euro 6d RDE step2,

not plain euro6 which was rather easier to meet with less equipment 

 

Might be worth checking which version your mechanic was referring to

 

 

So my new car I get in September will have Euro 6 rde step 2.so what is the difference and will it help the PDF work better?many thanks.

2 hours ago, Joss1733 said:

So my new car I get in September will have Euro 6 rde step 2.so what is the difference and will it help the PDF work better?many thanks.

euro6 NOx is 0.06g/ml (petrol) or 0.08g/ml diesel, but a temporary non-conformity was allowed (2.1times the limit), but now need the much higher quality emissions equipment to meet it (although there is error factor).

 

The DPF collects particulates (P is particulates), so not directly affected, but it is the need to meet the lower NOx limits that adds complexity