If you have a diesel car, look out.

Yes. I don't have anything that young:-)

Not mentioned in any of the anti-diesel press reports recently.

Cars with cats. have lambda sensors. To get any running benefit from removing the cats you'd have to re-map the engine too. Which would be beyond a redneck like that.

That assumes the emission control continues to work as it should. Which simply isn't the case.

We have one, but what about it?

Tim

Yes - but I think I've seen them looking at other stuff too like tyres.

:)

My Hyundai Tucson is diesel, Euro VI and no Adblue.

Just for the record... I would have preferred petrol, given the way things are going but there are no good petrol engines in that model in the UK (which is weird as I'm pretty sure the US version has a 2l petrol).

Why Hyundai? Big discount available at the time...

If you really think things like air-con don't use fuel, I'll have to lump you in with Turnip. ;-)

Also, wide tyres and the larger heavier bodywork and trim etc all contribute to increasing fuel consumption over what it could be. Just as well engine efficiency has improved a bit too.

How much 'power' do you think an early '50s MM had - and how much 'power' do you think a modern equivalent has? This could prove very interesting...

Oh - and why do you seem to think power is linked to efficiency?

A straight diesel what? And under which sort of driving conditions? Hybrids score in heavy stop start traffic, like in many large towns. But can be worse on a motorway.

So you'd say a car well suited for high speed motorway use will also be just fine for use in heavy town traffic? And the other way round?

Just wait 'till the current one gets some miles under its belt. ;-)

ISTR that my Anglia's engine 1200cc was supposed to deliver about 80bhp (60kW) . In contrast, SWMBO's Skoda with a similar size engine delivers

Don't think Ford claimed anywhere near 80 bhp for a 1200 Anglia. For guidance, a Mini Cooper S 1275 had 75 (claimed) BHP.

But 2-3 times peak power for the same sized engine in cooking form wouldn't be far out. Remembering that the way peak power is measured has changed over the years.

I have a euro vi diesel, it doesn't have adblue.

Or at least it isn't mentioned in the manual and I don't see anywhere to put it.

Always trying to put words into the mouths of others.

you're probably correct - I no longer have any publications of that era. I do know that after fitting a Minnow carburettor, a rolling road test gacve

Think it would have been lucky to produce 60 bhp, probably nearer 50.

Tim

Generally only bigger engines or higher output variations of smaller engines that require it.

It obviously costs more to fit and manufacturers will continue to bend over backwards NOT to fit anything that isn?t essential. My wife?s 150bhp 2L diesel has it.

Tim

Eu6 engines reduce the amount of Nox emitted. There are ways of achieving this but, on larger engines, the most frequent method is by what is known as 'selective catalytic reduction' and this reequires Adblue to work.

Smaller engines can use Nox traps but these don't work on lots of diesel engines nor at high temperatures.

I dunno why - but they don't.