I like driving diesels, I don't do city centres at all, preferring to make us of public transport in those situations. My car lives in the garage and behind locked gates, which itself serves as big deterrent to use it for short journeys.
I was very pleasantly surprised too, when they first appeared. Nicer for the passengers on the bus too, there is none of that rattling vibration as they pick up and drop passengers. I find that to be an horrible sensation, the low vibration as the engine ticks over slowly.
They also seem to have a much more rapid acceleration than the pure diesels.
Quite possible, that advantage is being exploited by the new KDD drive system, look it up, it is very sensible. I know it is not mainstream , but it will be, hopefully soon.
Agreed, but they deal admirably with the extra load of the coat and scarf that you probably need while scraping the ice off either vehicle anyway.
Disagree. Mine don't seem to use much more fuel when cold than warmed up, whereas petrol cars I've had have all had gluttonous thirst when cold. I'll quote again my experience on repeated short distances with cooling-off periods between : Diesel Disco or Jeep 30-40mpg vs Petrol Omega 7-9mpg. Identical journeys.
But the older, with less junk attached, the better.
I know I'm a ore about this.
I suppose no-one here is selling a 300tdi Disco with galvanised chassis?
True, but a petrol engine is up to temperature within a mile or two, a diesel takes 10 to 20 times as long. So diesels consume more fuel than necessary over those miles. Additionally, they suffer extra wear and tear over those initial cold miles.
Mine has a fuel burpre-heatning heater fitted, to preheat the engine when it is really cold. I find it to be essential. It even cuts in after it has gained full temperature, if the car is not being driven hard enough or stuck in traffic.
How old is this "basic" Diesel? I don't think there has been a non-turbo Diesel on the European market for close to 10 years. There were VW SDI engines in some shit (Lupo/Polo) back in 2005 and PSA still made light commercial vehicles (Berlingo), some of which may have had side windows for wheelchair users. No one would be bragging about the power of a non turbo diesel, you were lucky to get over 35bhp/L and many were as low as
25 bhp/L.
At least not in Europe, you could have a new Chinese POS. Volkswagen Jetta Pionier
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1.9 Litre 63 bhp (and this is a good N/A Diesel). It's really odd that over 100 people don't know that badges like Td6, TDI and TDCi means its a bloody TURBO Diesel and have listed them as non turbo.
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