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rv:diesel [2023/08/31 02:09]
princess_fluffypants [Exhaust Soot] |
rv:diesel [2023/08/31 02:11]
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| **This is not a slight against any specific manufacturer**; these problems are endemic to //all// modern diesel engines produced from the mid-2000s onward. [[https://www.dieselworldmag.com/diesel-technology/why-the-6-0l-is-so-unreliable/|Ford]], [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fatal-flaw-mercedes-benz-sprinters-tom-robertson/|Mercedes]], Chevrolet, and [[https://www.promasterforum.com/threads/service-def-system.50274/page-5|Dodge]] vans all suffer from these problems. There's a few that are less bad than others, but they all have the same parts that are //guaranteed// to fail and are devastatingly expensive to repair. | **This is not a slight against any specific manufacturer**; these problems are endemic to //all// modern diesel engines produced from the mid-2000s onward. [[https://www.dieselworldmag.com/diesel-technology/why-the-6-0l-is-so-unreliable/|Ford]], [[https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fatal-flaw-mercedes-benz-sprinters-tom-robertson/|Mercedes]], Chevrolet, and [[https://www.promasterforum.com/threads/service-def-system.50274/page-5|Dodge]] vans all suffer from these problems. There's a few that are less bad than others, but they all have the same parts that are //guaranteed// to fail and are devastatingly expensive to repair. |
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| This article is also //not// anti-emissions. For a very long time, diesel engines were given an unreasonable exemption from having to meet the same emission standards that applied to gasoline engines for decades, even though diesel's emissions were far more toxic than their gasoline powered cousins. In some ways, the crackdown (and current phasing out) of diesel engines from the light vehicle market was inevitable, and a welcome change from the era of smelly, black-cloud-belching vans and trucks. | This article is also //not// "anti-emissions". For a very long time, diesel engines were given an unreasonable exemption from having to meet the same emission standards that applied to gasoline engines for decades, even though diesel's emissions were far more toxic than their gasoline powered cousins. In some ways, the crackdown (and current phasing out) of diesel engines from the light vehicle market was inevitable, and a welcome change from the era of smelly, black-cloud-belching vans and trucks. |
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| ==== Known Good Engines ==== | ==== Known Good Engines ==== |
