nightjar

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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nightjar


"Hellraiser" wrote in message
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....and surely you can tell it's a
diesel by the rattling noise it makes?


In a Land Rover Defender, yes. In a one year old Mercedes, no.


Hmm. I take exception to that.



Any particular reason, or just on general principles? I have driven both
BTW, although I concede that, with the Mercedes, I was not driving one of
the cheap models.


Well I drive one. The land rover. But all cars rattle to an extent. Its
goes with theterritory of valves, tappets etc etc, and modern lean burn
petrolengines are run to the point of detonation too.

Modsern diesle by the way, that use advanced multi-pulse injection,
don't detonate at low throttle the way traditional ones do.



Colin Bignell