Re: Honest John - modern diesels

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:50:06 +0100, Chris Bartram
<news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Zathras wrote:
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:44:13 +0000 (UTC), Adrian
<toomany2cvs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

MichaelS <kilauea3@xxxxxxxxxxx> gurgled happily, sounding much like they
were saying:

A neighbour bought a new diesel mondeo last year , it has now done 7k
and has used up all its oil and wrecked the bottom end, what a
wonderful advert.
Perhaps he should have checked the oil more often.
Or perhaps the key is in the word "used". Turbo seals fail, oil is sucked
through into the intake, burnt as fuel, until there is no more. Can't
turn it off

..any reasonable (i.e. not reverse if moving forward) gear, both feet
on the brake pedal, grit teeth..easy. If that doesn't work, time to
get a car with brakes.

That relies on the driver realising what is happening /before/ it goes
bang :-)

With a diesel you should get enough time. One of the characteristics
is that they don't rev very high because they cannot burn the fuel
properly so ingesting unmetered lumps of engine oil doesn't make it
run that well/powerfully. Also, diesels don't rev up anything like as
quickly as a petrol. Unless totally asleep, you should be able to
catch it before it hurts itself.

--
Z
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