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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.
  
-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.
  
 ==== Known Good Engines ==== ==== Known Good Engines ====
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 But passenger vehicles’ light duty cycles don’t allow for automatic burning, so sometimes they have to perform forced burn cycles when the vehicle is parked. This uses a ton of extra fuel and upsets the owner, who doesn’t understand why their vehicle is running at a fast idle by itself and has superheated exhaust pouring out the back. Some early light trucks actually caught their plastic rear bumpers on fire.  But passenger vehicles’ light duty cycles don’t allow for automatic burning, so sometimes they have to perform forced burn cycles when the vehicle is parked. This uses a ton of extra fuel and upsets the owner, who doesn’t understand why their vehicle is running at a fast idle by itself and has superheated exhaust pouring out the back. Some early light trucks actually caught their plastic rear bumpers on fire. 
  
-These chambers also get plugged up easily, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/VanLife/comments/ews1r4/hit_with_the_most_intense_mechanics_bill/|which is incredibly expensive]] to fix due to the part cost and where they are located. On some light pickup trucks, replacing the chamber (sometimes referred to as the DPF, or Diesel Particulate Filter) requires lifting the entire cab off of the body and can cost nearly $10,000 due to the amount of labor involved.+These chambers also get plugged up easily, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/VanLife/comments/ews1r4/hit_with_the_most_intense_mechanics_bill/|which is incredibly expensive]] to fix due to the part cost and where they are located. On some light pickup trucks, replacing the chamber (sometimes referred to as the DPF, or Diesel Particulate Filter) requires lifting the entire cab off of the body and can cost a fortune due to the amount of labor involved.
  
-To top it off, some early light diesels did a terrible job integrating the extra fuel delivery required - instead of adding an extra injector, they cheaped out and had the last injector in the engine shoot extra fuel during the exhaust stroke, which caused internal engine issues (The 6.4L V-8 used in the [[rv:ford_e-series|Econoline van]] and Ford trucks from 2011-2015 was a particularly egregious example of this).+To top it off, some early light diesels did a terrible job integrating the extra fuel delivery required - instead of adding an extra injector, they cheaped out and had the last injector in the engine shoot extra fuel during the exhaust stroke, which caused internal engine issues (The 6.4L V-8 used in Ford trucks was a particularly egregious example of this).
  
 ===== Fuel Injection  ===== ===== Fuel Injection  =====
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