IMM wrote:

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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harrogate wrote:


"Doctor D." wrote in message
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They will mix just fine, and it will have no adverse effects on
your car (it's a diesel, how much worse can it get anyway??).


I thought this too until I actually tried one. Take a Golf 130 TDi,

Megane

120 DCi or Focus 115 TDCi for a spin and eat your words!




I can never understand why the (so-called) motoring journalists of this
world - Clarkson and all that lot - always promote the idea that running

a

diesel is all about thrift and low fuel consumption.

Anyone who regularly drives a diesel will tell you this is far from the
case - it's all about laziness, not have to change gear to accelerate,

not

having to change gear to go around corners, being able to pull away

easily

on ice or snow when the petrolheads are spinning their wheels like
crazy................... and so it goes on. Diesel is all about torque

at

low revs and flexibility - provided you don't want to do it in

microseconds!

Having had diesel company cars for the last decade I find it difficult

to go

back to driving a petrol car again - I keep having to work pedals and

move

the gear lever. It's only because of our stupid taxation system that

puts

the cost of diesel so high over here that stops diesel cars selling

more -

you only have to go across the channel to see the truth of that!.




Ther are all sorts of diesels, and all sorts of petrol engines. Eiether
can be made torquey, revvy, narrow or wide power band.

Diesel is more effeiceint at part throttle


A diesel does not have a throttle, it is full air all the time.



It is conventional to refer to any speed reduction system on an IC
engine as a throttle.




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