Advantages v disadvantages of a diesel!!!

Heh, I'm not the one who started this thread making unsubstantiated claims.

But the Citroen was french, plasticky and had funny suspension.

0-62 in 10.8sec for the BX, 0-60 in 12.5 for the montego. 90BHP out of 1769cc vs 81 out of 1994cc.

cheers, clive

Yes and efluants live longer...

About half the price of my vr6 van...

Proving nothing at all. Er no its a common misconception, that you bought into without the understanding to work it out for yourself like most of the others.

Can't you think of anything bad to say about the BX?

cheers, clive

The handbrake operated on the wrong wheels

Yeah, owning a BX has cut my "own-car" handbrake turn activity from 2 or

3 per year to practically zero.

I have to satify myself with drawing black 1's and doing J turns these days.

Douglas

Tint the windows as darka s you can, and no bugger is going to f*ck with you. Especially if you put a few Moscow stickers on it.

But it hasn't and it didn't, it's merely reminded us that you have a closed mind.

What, people have different opinions?

the heart pumps the same amount of times but because the mices heart is like

600 times faster than the effluents it's going to conk out sooner isn't it I made another post somewhere about this

Err....things have moved on since the 70's. On the Mercedes Actros, the oil change interval is 100,000 km on an engine that spends alot of its time under heavy load..

And? Modern diesels don't suffer the problem.

Such as?

So explain why Mercedes set the oil change interval on Actroses at

100,000km?

No, instead it has the crank pulling the piston down whilst the vaccuum in the upper cylinder is trying to pull the piston up.

'Cos they are. Despite the higher compression ratio, the diesel cycle has a less violent cylinder pressure change than a petrol engine cycle. The engine is more heavily engineered to compensate for the high peak pressures and loadings. Importantly the fuel is also a lubricant.

The absence of an electrical ignition system reduces the non-critical failure rate. They _are_ more reliable - warrenty claims and pretty much any mechanic can confirm.

If the torque curve is ideally flat, then it's true by definition. To have a wider power peak, the torque curve has to drop off at higher rpm. Like a diesel :-)

No, it's true because you have a finite number of gears, and a proportionally wider power band.

Bah. I enjoy a good high rpm thrash as much as anyone - I'm a big fan of Vtec-alike engines, but I can see the advantages of high-torque, low rpm engines, especially in everyday, normal driving.

Yes it is. You ask an average non car nut how often they hit the redline. Most petrol engines never produce more than 70% of thier peak power.

Depends on the definition of equivlent. I'd say it's something I could realistically buy as an alternative. Clearly you use a diferent definition.

A turbo petrol of the same power will lose out to the diesel. A turbo petrol of the same peak torque will obviously destroy the diesel.

Yeah, for my list of advantages. that bit ^^^ was an extra freebie :-)

Quite.

Can't remember the last time I paid more than £25.

Meanwhile the oil in a diesel truck which is the same as you put in a diesel car and has far more strain, is able to do several times more mileage before needing a change.

WRONG.

They're designed to compensate for the extra stress n*****ts.

Why are there no petrol lorries? Why did the Army get rid of the petrol lorries it did have for diesels?