cedez
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- 270CDI 2004
Hi All
I do hope i am in the correct place in this forum apologies if i have posted in the wrong section.
Last year i failed the mot test at the council testing station because of the government emissions requirements for diesel cars. On my car door it shows the Plate value as 0.90 1/m drift value 0.08 1/m for my C Class 270CDI 2004 diesel estate
I was told that I need to get the engine red hot before putting it in for testing (i had only driven short journeys prior to testing unbeknown to me that i needed to thrash my pride and joy ) and put a whole bottle load from Diesel Magic additive into a half full tank from Halfords about £6.80
After this initial fail I decided to take the car to an independent garage who said he could get the car through, i left the car with him and he passed it. I had no idea how he manged to do it the readings on the council test that failed were 1st test 1.01 - 2nd 1.22 - 3rd 1.10 - 4th 1.13 -5th 1.20 - 6th 1.16 all over the required 0.9. The level required was much higher before and the car would have passed no problem untill the government decided that the tolerance should be lower than that on the door plate 0.9 The independent garage managed to pass me. (probably thrashed my car to get it red hot)
This year 6th Jan 2020 i took the car into the council testing station again as they have no vested interest in selling me any unneeded work which i love !! standard £54.50 I was prepared this time so added some Redex (should have used Diesel Magic) i drove the car into the country side and revved it to 3.5 to 4.5 thousand revs up hills dropped it into 3 gear to make it struggle /work and drove around like an idiot for over an hour trying to get my engine very hot before the Mot time slot at 10am i parked it up and turned the engine off walked away thinking i had done enough this time i arrived back an hour later and it failed again.
All readings were over 0.90 by an average of point 2 very little but enough to fail!! to my dismay he told me to use Diesel Magic and run it very hot on the motorway i drove away bought some diesel magic and drove the car up and down the motorway blasting the throttle and kick-downs for 1 and half hours feeling like an absolute idiot/moron i kept thinking i shouldn't have to do this this is wrong?
The car has been meticulously maintained as per Mercedes protocols from day one fully stamped Mercedes service history!!
After driving over 100 miles going nowhere in particular I arrived back at the testing station
for another test, re-test was free slotted in for 1.30pm same day, he came back to me and said he was gentle ! meaning he didn't really put his foot down as much as maybe he should, but it had indeed passed this time. The average reading was 0.66 1/m.
i was told in future to add diesel magic more often and try premium diesel which i will do until the next test.
I have been told that an updated super duper air filter does the trick i am waiting to find out what exactly or which air filter will be the best one to use? I am aware that the government are trying reduce emissions and trying to reduce the amount of diesels on the road over the next decade. They are the ones that encouraged us to go diesel in the first place!!
How bizarre that i am now out polluting the environment more than i normally would thrashing my car more than i would at any given time throughout the year ? how many thousand of diesel drivers will be doing the same to get their cars through this unfriendly diesel MOT.
Happy New year !!
I do hope i am in the correct place in this forum apologies if i have posted in the wrong section.
Last year i failed the mot test at the council testing station because of the government emissions requirements for diesel cars. On my car door it shows the Plate value as 0.90 1/m drift value 0.08 1/m for my C Class 270CDI 2004 diesel estate
I was told that I need to get the engine red hot before putting it in for testing (i had only driven short journeys prior to testing unbeknown to me that i needed to thrash my pride and joy ) and put a whole bottle load from Diesel Magic additive into a half full tank from Halfords about £6.80
After this initial fail I decided to take the car to an independent garage who said he could get the car through, i left the car with him and he passed it. I had no idea how he manged to do it the readings on the council test that failed were 1st test 1.01 - 2nd 1.22 - 3rd 1.10 - 4th 1.13 -5th 1.20 - 6th 1.16 all over the required 0.9. The level required was much higher before and the car would have passed no problem untill the government decided that the tolerance should be lower than that on the door plate 0.9 The independent garage managed to pass me. (probably thrashed my car to get it red hot)
This year 6th Jan 2020 i took the car into the council testing station again as they have no vested interest in selling me any unneeded work which i love !! standard £54.50 I was prepared this time so added some Redex (should have used Diesel Magic) i drove the car into the country side and revved it to 3.5 to 4.5 thousand revs up hills dropped it into 3 gear to make it struggle /work and drove around like an idiot for over an hour trying to get my engine very hot before the Mot time slot at 10am i parked it up and turned the engine off walked away thinking i had done enough this time i arrived back an hour later and it failed again.
All readings were over 0.90 by an average of point 2 very little but enough to fail!! to my dismay he told me to use Diesel Magic and run it very hot on the motorway i drove away bought some diesel magic and drove the car up and down the motorway blasting the throttle and kick-downs for 1 and half hours feeling like an absolute idiot/moron i kept thinking i shouldn't have to do this this is wrong?
The car has been meticulously maintained as per Mercedes protocols from day one fully stamped Mercedes service history!!
After driving over 100 miles going nowhere in particular I arrived back at the testing station
for another test, re-test was free slotted in for 1.30pm same day, he came back to me and said he was gentle ! meaning he didn't really put his foot down as much as maybe he should, but it had indeed passed this time. The average reading was 0.66 1/m.
i was told in future to add diesel magic more often and try premium diesel which i will do until the next test.
I have been told that an updated super duper air filter does the trick i am waiting to find out what exactly or which air filter will be the best one to use? I am aware that the government are trying reduce emissions and trying to reduce the amount of diesels on the road over the next decade. They are the ones that encouraged us to go diesel in the first place!!
How bizarre that i am now out polluting the environment more than i normally would thrashing my car more than i would at any given time throughout the year ? how many thousand of diesel drivers will be doing the same to get their cars through this unfriendly diesel MOT.
Happy New year !!