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charles wrote:
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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 25/05/2021 16:18, JNugent wrote:
On 25/05/2021 03:38 pm, Andrew wrote:


You only need to walk along the side of a busy road to notice the pong
on NO2. This wasn't the case 20 years ago.

Of course not. its only really an issue in uber lean burn eco engines.

Now There are 10+ million
diesel engined cars on the road and the vast majority are not EU6
compliant. There needs a massive cull of older diesel clunkers.

No,m the older clinker are fine. Its the eco clunkers that cause the crap

my 5yo Mazda is exempt from the London pollution charge.
I went to diesel (early 1990s) since doing around 20,000 miles per year, it
was cheaper to run than a petrol beast.

The big snag as regards damaging to the body pollutants from diesels is
millions of cars with Bosch engine management were it is fiddled to pass
the Euro 6 tests in a lab, but fails miserably in use. It's gone pretty
quiet about that in the meja recently.

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