the heat issue is TURBO engine Vs non turbo (in most cases eg focus TD / Focus cl petrol)

Turbos always have more heat swanning around under the bonnet. Whether theyre petrol or diesel.
fact of life.
Solution? Bigger radiator, higher pressure coolant pump, more cooling in other words. Same as any other vehicle with a heat issue

Still, it’s good to see you guys still have adequate spare time to squabble mindlessly, (for the most part anyway) about these things; I guess there is a sense of mateship, frindship, or whatever in it; so good for you!

If you remember Spandau, I have an ‘06 Pug 407 HDI too, (since May ‘08).

It’s just clicked over 40,000Km on the clock and it’s been an absolute dream!!! I gotta say, 0-60kmh can be a little slow, what with the lag ‘n’ all, but I just build up the revs with my foot on the brake if I wanna take off real quick!!!! hehehehehe….. I’ll probably go through brake pads quicker, but it’s fun blowing off wogs in Falcodores at the lights!!!!!

The 2009 model truck I do drive, goes 15,000km per oil change. Get’s roughly four kilometres per litre of diesel, whether it’s empty or loaded up to the axle limits makes little difference.
The average semi goes 2.0 to 2.2 km per litre of diesel. Average b-double semi gets 1.8 to 2.0 km per litre of diesel.

I’m not sure the big fleets are still fiddling with that gas injection with diesel motors somebody mentioned either. Haven’t heard anything about it for six months, although I know some big firms were trying it out. Perhaps it’s a bit of a waste of money, or the added complexity proved too much of a hassle.

Whats so DANGEROUS about a sequential gearbox? Will the gears eat me? Theres a thousand cars on the road with a sequential gearbox. The proper race-spec ones though, arent used because of how expensive they are.

Yes we’ll be paying tonnes more, but no one wants to pay that much more. Technology will develop into a less expensive ALTERNATIVE because thats what we will demand. Theres already a thousand hydrogen engines out there, its the big companies that buy them out because they dont want to have to spend the money on developing something the market doesn’t need know exists.

And so Spandau, is that why Nissan just used a Double clutch robotised manual transaxle on its new GT-R, you know, the one the Mrs drives. The one thats faster than the Ferrari’s, Lamborghini’s and Porsche’s.
Darling, may I borrow your car please?

I had a mechanic the other day suggest it would take three hours to do a job that would take me an hour. I have no qualification, have pulled apart one engine in my lifespan, and can make no sense of the manuals. Yet this guy thinks it would take three hours….

Sam-R, fuel stations are going to have to change a lot more when electric quick-charge stations come into effect and kill their business slowly. Besides, LPG doesnt work on the diesel combustion cycle, its too hot.

Inevitably us truck drivers get chatting to one another. There was a guy there getting his truck looked at for the second time in three weeks. Because he was having problems with the electric window winder on the passenger side door. We watched three mechanics completely dismantle the driver’s side door, over a space of two hours. Then two of the mechanics just kind of leant on the side of the truck for another hour. Hilarious. I don’t think they ever did look at the passenger door, but I left at that stage.