Diesels About To Get Expensive????

[ORD]

CraigyMc said:

Devil2575 said:

I'm trying to find a new car for my wife and as she does about 5k a year a diesel is not suitable. However try finding an S-Max or Galaxy with a petrol engine.

Autotrader shows 76 petrol versus 1012 diesel S-maxes nationally, which proves your point

[Fastdruid]

daemon said:

Fastdruid said:

Ah so now I'm not not only driving it wrong I'm not a good driver.

So as I'm not a good driver I'm not allowed to dislike having to rev the tits off it to not pull away at a crawl and change umpteen times more often?

Well you made the statement that "all diesels" had that problem, whereby there was zero power between tickover and 1500rpm, to the point of making it almost undriveably for you.

As this has NEVER happened to me and i've driven a load of diesels and petrols whilst motor trading, and noone else on here is report this "major problem" i can only assume EITHER there was a serious fault with the cars you drove OR you were driving it wrong OR you were unable to adjust to the power delivery?

Take you pick.

Sorry to bring this up again but I had another hired diesesal (a Golf) over the weekend and it was still the same issue, (all but) no go below 1500rpm. So is more likely that I happened to be unlucky and get BMW, Ford, Nissan and VW's all with the same serious fault or that's just a diesel characteristic? On the plus side the golf was the least worst and it was barely noticeable in first.

I've no doubt that owners drive round it and don't notice it (change more often than you would on a petrol car and keep the revs up) but it is so nice to get back into a (petrol) car with some low down torque and not have to worry about falling off the torque cliff and floundering in the sea of gutlessness.

[daemon]

Fastdruid said:

daemon said:

Fastdruid said:

Ah so now I'm not not only driving it wrong I'm not a good driver.

So as I'm not a good driver I'm not allowed to dislike having to rev the tits off it to not pull away at a crawl and change umpteen times more often?

Well you made the statement that "all diesels" had that problem, whereby there was zero power between tickover and 1500rpm, to the point of making it almost undriveably for you.

As this has NEVER happened to me and i've driven a load of diesels and petrols whilst motor trading, and noone else on here is report this "major problem" i can only assume EITHER there was a serious fault with the cars you drove OR you were driving it wrong OR you were unable to adjust to the power delivery?

Take you pick.

Sorry to bring this up again but I had another hired diesesal (a Golf) over the weekend and it was still the same issue, (all but) no go below 1500rpm. So is more likely that I happened to be unlucky and get BMW, Ford, Nissan and VW's all with the same serious fault or that's just a diesel characteristic? On the plus side the golf was the least worst and it was barely noticeable in first.

I've no doubt that owners drive round it and don't notice it (change more often than you would on a petrol car and keep the revs up) but it is so nice to get back into a (petrol) car with some low down torque and not have to worry about falling off the torque cliff and floundering in the sea of gutlessness.

Dont worry - you're not alone. Heres someone else whos world all but ends when the power band isnt where he expects it to be.

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Maybe you could get together and form a self help group?

[Terminator X]

Dirty, foul smelling vehicles. Surely just a matter of time before a "pollution tax" is brought in? Oh and when you all move over to leccy cars they will obviously tax the electricity

TX.

[daemon]

Terminator X said:

Dirty, foul smelling vehicles. Surely just a matter of time before a "pollution tax" is brought in? Oh and when you all move over to leccy cars they will obviously tax the electricity

TX.

Oh aye. The motorist is an easy target. They get billions from us in revenue, so once the fuel source moves, so will the tax.

Of course, they'll call it a "green" tax to make us feel a bit better when they're raping us.