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 Are you ok driving a diesel car?, What are your thoughts around it?

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boonwuilow
post Apr 23 2014, 10:55 PM

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I love diesel cars these day, especially those with common rail injection
The more it smoke the more i love wub.gif rclxm9.gif ... wahahaha
I would purposely tune it to make more power and roll coal and put a side pipe or a stack



It has more torque, better fuel economy and effortless acceleration
For example the 320d in one tank of fuel it can go 1000 miles

boonwuilow
post Apr 24 2014, 10:15 PM

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QUOTE(jchue73 @ Apr 24 2014, 06:46 PM)
Errr, 1000km. 1000 miles and people will say you're trolling.  biggrin.gif
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Don't believe ah... go see for yourself ler...
http://green.autoblog.com/2010/05/25/bmw-3...e-tank-of-fuel/
boonwuilow
post Apr 25 2014, 02:44 AM

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QUOTE(jchue73 @ Dec 12 2013, 07:53 PM)
I think at traffic light can do already. Or from a slow speed accelerate the car by stepping on it. I sometimes see those Hilux pickups on the highway and know when they step on the gas to overtake / accelerate by the black smoke the exhaust pipes gives out.
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That what they called it the air deficiency... Because when u step on it, the turbo need to spool up, and while it spooling up the injector already spraying more fuel than it could burn, which leads to incomplete combustion and it smoke for a short time until the turbo is spooled up enuf to make the enuf air for the fuel to burn
boonwuilow
post Apr 25 2014, 03:03 AM

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QUOTE(jchue73 @ Apr 25 2014, 12:29 AM)

Wah, the things he does, is it possible ah in Malaysia? Next thing you know BMW gets bad publicity when a driver suffocates trying to better the 1000 mile record.

1000km per tank is more doable in Malaysian traffic and climate conditions.  icon_rolleyes.gif
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In malaysia most probably can't due to hotter climate which resulted in a less denser intake air that will take away efficiency and not to say how good is the quality of diesel fuel made in malaysia...
But still is one of the best diesel range vehicle ever made
boonwuilow
post Apr 25 2014, 03:08 AM

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QUOTE(jchue73 @ Apr 25 2014, 12:29 AM)
I will just say again that diesel engine on a small car like Fiesta does not make sense. You go through all the unnecessary vibration and noise for a small car is just not worth it. A diesel engine on a bigger vehicle makes more sense.

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QUOTE(kadajawi @ Apr 25 2014, 02:37 AM)
It does makes sense. The consumption is lower and diesel is around RM 0.22 cheaper here. Though taxes are higher...
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Why not?
There even a manufacture in Dutch that make a 3 cylinder turbo diesel bike
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/17/4639/Moto...Quick-Ride.aspx
boonwuilow
post Apr 25 2014, 01:04 PM

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QUOTE(jchue73 @ Apr 25 2014, 09:23 AM)
I was not making reference to Malaysian weather being hotter and therefore less efficient.

I was more concern about how would a driver tahan not using air conditioning with windows closed in hot humid climate like Malaysia just to perform the feat. Also, where would you be able to maintain a journey with 60 to 70 mph all the way? Our highways are not that long. Unless consider journey from JB all the way to Bangkok but that would be crazy if not impossible to maintain that kind of average speed.
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Maybe u were right, perhaps that your way of bench marking things rolleyes.gif

But worst of all diesel is when it wants to runaway from u laugh.gif

 

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