Proposed diesel car penalties - E-Petition

[Dave Plowman (News)]

The vast majority are diesel. And pretty crude ones at that. Taxis have a much longer life than perhaps most other 'commercial' vehicles.

[Adrian]

The problem used to be particulate emissions. That's been sorted, through the use of DPFs. The Euro 5 and 6 particulate limit (so every new diesel since 2009) is 0.005g/km. Euro 1 (1992) was .14g/km - nearly 30 times as high.

[Nightjar]

On 10/08/2014 11:36, Andy Burns wrote: ...

I had in an automatic courtesy car. It was slightly odd having the engine stop every time I came to a standstill for more than a few seconds, but it seemed to work well.

[Tim+]

Is it fair to blame manufacturers? After all, the government sets the standards and manufacturers found ways to meet them. The fact that this made much smaller "real world" improvements isn't the fault of the manufacturers but the fault of the tests.

Tim

[Andy Burns]

"Nightjar

[djc]

Here:

also here (who do lots of other toll tickets too)

[Nick]

Yep. They are disgusting.

[Nightjar]

I don't know whether the sign shown there is new, or whether different places have different signs, but the ones I have seen have been carefully camouflaged by having a picture of a forest as the background.

[The Other Mike]

In that case they have to get past the all enclosing shear bolted on half inch steel plate with razor wire trim. Makes a real mess of any wildlife that attempts to duck though :)

[Scion]

Adrian put finger to keyboard:

Point of order! A doofus is a person. You mean 'doofer'.

[fred]

SWMBO has that. I still have a fear that it won't re-start automatically bu t of course it always does. It monitors the battery and if it is getting lo w either through air con or whatever it will not function or if it has alre ady stopped the engine while the vehicle is stationary it will re-start au tomatically to keep the battery topped up.