It's a sticky on plate unfortunately, not pressed metal.
In the old days we could explore scrap yards ourselves. Now of course it's all by authorised persons only, ort I could cut the bit off another that says 2.5, or summat.
I feel it is the Politicians because they are linking amount of road tax collected with the emissions. Link road tax with mileage and bank balance.Its mercedes setting the bar so low thats causing issues,.
I've been hastily reading test reports.
While there is massive support for using 2 stroke (low ash variety) on the net, the testing of this doesn't seem to agree.
Zinc deposits on the injectors is one claim, and also zinc deposits reaching the DPF during cold starts, these 'apparently' won't burn off and can prematurely clog the filter.
I'm still left with the thinking that 0.39 is a good reading for the soot. It's the bl00dy 'marketing' spec that is plated that's the issue.
If this spec isn't going to be realistically met by a used engine then the planet suffers much more by the ongoing attempts to rectify what maybe can't be rectified to attain this unrealistic spec.
We see above that a Euro 6 VW, supposedly better for the environment (being Euro 6), is plated at 5 times that of mine. It doesn't tally in my mind.
Are others seeing less than 0.1 at their MOT smoke test?
Am I merely hoping to ignore the fact that my engine should be better?
Is it realistic to carry out any unknown amounts of remedial actions to 'hopefully' get to this 0.1 figure this year, and again next year........
That is horrendously low 0.1 I'd expect that on a much newer vehicle .
The low Ash JASO FB 2-Stroke is exactly that low zinc (anything low ash is low zinc and phosphorus) and the dilution rate is 1:200 so I'm putting just 250ml in a tank , is that really going to kill anything ?
No , I've been doing it every tank on one car for 7 years and 2 years on the OM651.
Also consider 2-EHN Cetane booster .
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and a new thermostat
All smoke opacity reducers .
As mentioned above, diesel emissions are not checked in NI. So...sell the van here.165k+.
New stat,
millers used for the last 5Kish.
Keen as I am to be a considerate motorist 0.39 seems acceptable.
I sold a previous 3.0L Viano as try as I did after spending ,000's on it myself and at Indies I couldn't eliminate the smoking. Being a 2009 model that one got an MOT like that.
As mentioned above, diesel emissions are not checked in NI. So...sell the van here.
What kind of mileage is on the OM651?
Less than 80K Jimbo , when the water pump and fuel filter housing was done I told them to do a new thermostat regardless .
Correct, I remembered it for the wrong thing, cheers.I think 9744 might be the paint code. Is yours 'brilliant silver'?
Didnt used to be M80 as a English mainland MOT was always valid here. Test centres here are Government run so I cant see an issue testing a vehicle here and running it across the water unless it would come into conflict with the fact you dont live in NI or maybe london emmissions? I think the only issue unless its been resolved is the NI database didnt use to extend to the English police forces database, Hence ANPR would flag the vehicle as having no MOT. Maybe this is resolved now that Wales holds the Database for all NI vehiclesOr is a N.I. MOT valid in mainland UK (not National Insurance MOT btw)?