Diesel scrappage

Capitol is likely only talking about the cars he knows about. A 10 year old Lada my well be worthless. Even a new one.

Since your dislikes seem to be all about changing gear etc and high revs at cruise, a decent auto? My old BMW auto was under 2000 rpm at 70 mph.

You really are a moron. Why tie up an ambulance for a broken limb? Oh, I forgot - you're a selfish prick.

Garage prices are weird. I've actually bought a 2nd hand car form a gar= age, used it for a year, then sold it privately for more!

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On Sun, 16 Apr 2017 18:32:49 +0100, Andy Burns wro= te:

Why get rid of diesel and not petrol cars? Diesel are more efficient.

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I took an IQ test and the results were negative.

You've got mudguards? 90% of cars seem to lack this very important feat= ure and spray muddy water everywhere.

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They do. They are called petrol hybrids.

If you or anyone you knew was suffering from asthma or any sort of lung problem then you might think otherwise.

Far better to slam another 30p on diesel fuel duty and use the money to fix the potholes and compensate the real losers, those with breathing issues.

"the diesel is preferable to the petrol engine."

Are you mad ?. There is no financial argument at all for a diesel doing an annual mileage like that.

My forty year old 104K miles car is worth £19,000. (Approx)

That's fine by me and I drive diesels.

Given the s*it state of the roads, I'd rather pay extra ON CONDITION the money is ringfenced and goes directly to where it belongs.

It's also fair: more duty paid = user doing higher milage and/or a low efficiency vehicle.

The only thing it does not address is particulate emissions that could be anywhere from practically zero (new vehicle) to clouds of black smoke.

Scrap VED at the same time.

Plugs last 40K miles in most modern cars and only cost a few quid each. That's once every 8 years for a 5K car.

Have you see the state of pollen filters on cars driven in stop/start traffic where most of the vehicles are diesel ?. That's what you are breathing in.

I do suffer from astham wuite badly.

Oddly enough it was better when there was more pollution around

Except petrol engines are ultimately no better.

And the tax is on te car, nit the fuel isn't it? So high mileage rich people dont suffer, just the poor elderly retired person who cant afford a new car, gets stamped on for road tax on a vehicle he scarcely drives

I'm afraid not where NO2 is concerned. Even a modern EU6 diesel driven in real world traffic, as opposed to a 'test rig' will produce several times as much as a petrol engine.

On saturday I came home from Epsom and as I passed the hospital a 56 plate BMW X5 shot out in front of me and accelerated away and I literally had to switch the heater to recirculate because so much stinking black smoke was coming out of its twin exhausts.

Diesels (in cars) are the wrong solution to the wrong problem.

A 56 plate car is likely to only be EU4 standard

Shouldn't we _not_ be rewarding car manufacturers with opportunities to make more sales of vehicles? They themselves should be funding the scrappage, not the tax payer.

Should all tax payers _not_ be subsidising those lucky enough to be in the situation of nearly buying a new car? It's like Solar panels and FIT.

Scrappage is a discount of a *new* vehicle, the type of purchase that devalues by a similar or worse amount in days when first driven off the forecourt.

As a lot of folks are a bit wiser than that, I'd rather something was done on secondhand trades. Was it? I wasn't watching the 2009 scrappage thing that closely.

A new equivalent for my 2004 diesel lump with similar fuel/pulling performance would be a smaller engine with a necessary turbo charger. Sod it, I'll be going electric...

... and ten years time, will be the electric vehicle scrappage event. Car electromagnetic field emissions seriously harming the directional finding abilities of Pigeons we'll be told ...

Sadly, NOx appears to do a lot of damage, and you can't see it.

The high performance diesels do seem to be a particular problem. Could be a much smaller one which has to work harder for most of the time is much cleaner overall?

What plugs?