As a diesel mechanic in the US i have a different slant on adblue or def fluid as we know it. The problem.... polution The solution as you mentioned of 66% de-ionized water and urea (a byproduct of petroleum) Dispenced in a plastic jug, placed in cardboard boxes stacked on wood pallets wrapped with plastic shrinkwrap. Placed in diesel trucks and distributed to every ass bleeding retail establishment from the hollars of Appalachia to the desert of Arizona and the Canadian tundra. Purchase the product and pour the contents in your tank then throw away the bottle, shrink-wrap and cardboard (upon which another truck will take to the landfill)... congratulations you have helped solve pollution!
Great informative video John. As an automotive tech of 35 years +. The changes to comply with Euro emissions standards have even confused me. I'm an Australian based automotive technician. Highly Bosch trained. The general automotive public wouldn't know there is a difference in exhaust after treatment. Dpf. Diesel particulate filter. Deals with the fine soot particles that are produced with normal combustion of the fuel . Due to the high energy density of diesel fuel and the low energy conversion . Incomplete combustion ends in the production of soot. So the Dpf was designed to trap and capture the fine soot particles which will pass through the upper airways of human lungs . As mentioned in your video that primarily captures them in a small furnace to be dealt with later. Such the term. "After treatment". SCR is selective catalyst reduction. The addition of urea in to the exhaust is to combine nox ( oxides of nitrogen) with a readily available source of nitrogen to scavenge the nox with nn2 to reduce nitrogen oxides to produce nitrogen dioxide. With the vehicle density of a population of Australia it is not an emissions regulation to meet 0.005 gas per km. Due to the square km to vehicle ratio. Manufacturers can not justify the small amount of vehicles sold here on Australia soil. That will aid to the total emissions goals of the company. This is the reasons why "adblue' isn't a major requirement on most vehicles. Certain manufacturers that want there vehicles here won't delete emissions equipment to allow that vehicle to be sold in this country. Due to the cost of retooling for a certain market. But it still asks the question of when the nox sensor is in the realm of $600 plus for one sensor. Why isn't it just not fitted and a software rewrite just implemented.
35+ Years Exhaust fitter almost full understanding of the Scientific Design of Exhaust and Intake Systems, not brainwashing from interested party's training groups and government agency's re Green agenda political green house gas emissions that have very little to do with DPF's other than black soot bad white steam looking stuff good. DPF's were designed to trap heavy Diesel particulates not light particles, and the associated burn back system either Diesel or Urea to release the same Heavy Particulates as much smaller particulates that in the public's view of what they are told is good and much better than Heavy particulates, or is it? Particulates in the old form pumped out as black soot from exhaust's of mostly older or overly adjusted diesel injector pumps look horrible smelled like crap and did in very high concentrations (city's) cause some problems, properly tuned systems and well maintained vehicles did not cause any real problems other than the normal range given of by combustion engines. The new systems now give of white smoke that looks like steam while a burnback is in motion, this process generates 64nm (Nanometers) size diesel particulates that can and do bypass the epidermis of our feeble human bodies and enters our blood steam (
Just changed the (fully clogged) DPF filter of my car by myself. I took the old one to the recycling center and throw it in a big container of metallic stuff. Do you guess where all those kilos of trapped ashes will go when they will press and triturate that metall stuff? Bingo! In the air. Pure genius.
My sister bought an Audi Q7 brand new which kept running out of AdBlue and stopping. Turned out the plastic container had a crack in it. It took four visits for Audi to figure out they had used a plastic tank that wasn't even as good as Tupperware.
I worked at a Company in Norway, that had a total world monopoly on Adblue, (which is a trademark for DEF. diesel exhaust fluid) heaters and quality sensors, also fuel level sensors for all commercial vehicles. Look at the fuel sensor and adblue installations on your Trucks, Tractors etc., they all look similar that's because they all came from the same place, (made in China). The process what DEF does is known as SCR (Selective catalytic reduction) converting Nox into N2 and H2O, DEF is only distilled water and urea but you can't make it yourself because there is the quality sensor in the installation and it's so finely tuned that you will never get the right mix, It is measured optically but they were trying to make a sensor that measured the quality ultrasonically, don't know if they got so far as left 6 six years when the Yanks bought the company and moved it out to low paying lands, the company who now has the monopoly is called TE Connectivity.
@@filespec like the Norwegian guy above said those sensors are so fine tuned you can't use anything else. I tried water once I run out only to get an ad blue error "add blue of bad quality please visit service" 😅
My previous car was a Citroen C3 1.5 diesel from 2019 and it would warn you when you had 2400km of adblue left. Would have to be some serious roadtrip in the middle of absolutely nowhere for that to be a problem :D.
Although I got caught out once not realising how much more Adblue my car uses towing at highway speed. Now I just top up before a long trip. Not a problem.
The Adblue systems on PSA Europe vehicles had a clever system of using a plastic impellor on the Adblue pump, which is guaranteed to fail, leaving you with a £1000 bill for metal impellor pump, and a new tank as the pump is built-in! When the warning light comes on you had 1500 miles before engine "re-start" was blocked, if you didn't switch off it would keep running, as they cannot turn the engine off on a car doing 70mph on the motorway
Helps explain why my 2017 Peugoet 508 with only 60,000 kms on the clock cost me $2,060 Adblue reservoir and fluid injector. First replacement was under warranty, this one was not. I intend to sell the vehicle before I need its 4th tank. Ridiculous. Great car if it wasn't for bloody emissions issues.
yep; hired a Ford Everest from Melbourne to Perth last September, had to top up the AdBlue tank at Norseman. A real learning experience. ps: was not aware the engine would stop if the AdBlue tank was empty,. so glad I did fill it up when I did. Book said one tank would last 5000Km.
You're lucky just topping it up fixed the problem. In my Peugeot, simply topping it up has no effect. The software needs to be re-set using genuine Peugeot OBD software. Generic OBD devices do not fix the problem. Great little earner for the PSA Group.
@@steve8567I.m in Canada, and i drive a 1994 dodge Cumins Diesel They have mechanical injector pumps and injectors No catalitic convertor, or egr, or ADblue tanks, just a muffler and tail pipe.It's so mechanical and simple it will run completely with out electrical devices except to run the starter.I just hope they Goverment lets me keep it. We are in -35c weather right know so its pretty smokey on start up and clears right out when warmed up. I've replaced the entire fuel system a year ago so i know it's running right. It will be my one and only Diesel truck. My hope is there are less and less of them on the road each year, An maybe the goverment will leave me alone
I got both DPF and AdBlue on my 2.0L diesel hatchback, and being a frenchie, the DPF uses a special aditive to lower the regen temperatures (Eolys 176).
Yup, we now have two Euro6 French cars, and it took me a long time to understand that the special additive for the DPF (or "FAP", as Peugeot calls it) is not used during the regenerative cycles (that is just accomplished by creating hotter exhaust by injecting more fuel later in the stroke), but is added to all fuel that ever goes through the engine, in order to modify the type of particles, lowering the temperature at which they burn off. This both lowers the amount of additional fuel that needs to be burned during regeneration (aka "burn-off"), but also allows the use of much more moderately priced materials. I seem to recall that it lowers regen temperaturs from somewhere around 600°C to just over 400°C or so. Brilliant stuff.
@@pinkdispatcher The AdBlue is added to the exhaust, not the intake air (Unless you've got one of Toyota's new - and very frightening when you look at the properties of ammonia - ammonia engines) all that's added to the intake air, apart from fuel and mechanical work to compress the air, is recirculated exhaust gas as this reduces combustion temperatures (At the expense of peak thermodynamic efficiency) in order to break fewer nitrogen molecules apart so fewer NOx compounds are formed. Regeneration is a sign your car is not being used for what it's good at, namely intercity travel at 80+ km/h. Any car that's able to spend a decent amount of it's time cruising at those speeds will burn the soot out of the DPF in normal operation and never need to regen at all.
@@peglor The last paragraph is incorrect.I do 350Km at 110km/hr regularly non stop in our Land Cruiser or a Diesel Hi Ace,both regen at regular intervals during the trip.It is good to have a DPF guage on the dash read out so the driver can see how often it regends,and the Diff Pressure across the DPF,and a regen switch if neeeded,but i have never had to use it.
@@paulbarry1044 Apologies for not being clear - when I say never have a regen I mean never suffer the raised idle speed, lumpy idling, smelly exhaust and so on that go with a forced regen, where the engine is trying to create exhaust temperatures high enough to burn the soot off the filter while being driven slowly in traffic.
@@peglor Even driving slow in traffic with some idling, they will do a burn.I think problems happen with numerous short runs,and the vehicle never gets a chance to regen.Engine also not getting up to temperature during short runs does not help.With our Diesels,we have never had a DPF issues,and some are over 8 yrs old and done huge mileage.
Gday, we recently purchased a 2012 Colorado and a 2011 Mazda CX7, both are turbo diesel. The Colorado has a catalytic converter and blows almost no black soot and runs beautifully, the CX7 has a PDF system and blows no soot at all! The tailpipe on the Colorado does have a black residue whereas the CX7 tailpipe is clean as a whistle and still looks brand new! While we are not dedicated ”greenies”, we are pretty confident that both vehicles are a lot greener than the older vehicles that we replaced!
Great explanation but I'd have to take issue with a couple of things. As for "e" being the first key to fail on a computer just by virtue of it being most used, I find keys fail randomly depending where the crumbs fall on my laptop and even move around. Also, you seem to deride sorting out issues in the pub but I have to say that some of the World's best ideas have come from beerstorming sessions, I just can't remember what they were as I was pissed so fck yo, oh bgger, crmbs have got in the "" key now.
Let's fix it by having the engineers actually spending time with those who will be using the product out in the actual world, instead of just sat in an office thinking they know what the customer wants!
Nothing wrong with the engineers, we design great products, but then the accountants take it through 'value engineering'' - which basically means it'll fail the day after any Guarantee expires.
@@Sgt_Bill_T_Co Yes I know! One of my inlaws was a drivetrain development engineer for Ford Australia. What lifespan do Ford develop their vehicles for? How long is the warranty! Two year servicing! 18K oil changes! Yes it should last just past the warranty period! So don't be the poor sucker who buys the vehicle after the warranty runs out!
Biggest problem for engineers in my experience is customers who never RTFM. I think some customers just sit on the manual and expect to understand everything by osmosis.
I haven’t checked recently but when I lived in Edithvale on the edge of Port Phillip Bay, it was possible to see a tinge of nitrogen dioxide on the horizon and the edges of the bay. It was the colour of black tea, cola drinks or bromine. This all goes away on a clear windy day.
I'm willing to put a reasonable sum on the fact not a single ad blue system will last 100 thou km..Outside of the workshop are 3 everests and 2 rangers (ones a bt actually) all picked up as cheap ins write off..I don't care and neither should you the motors fit quite nicely under the bonnet of any previous bs 4wd..for the princely sum of about 8 grand I can give you 200kw without a single bit of bs to deal with..new car b fuct...thanks for the support John the second hand market in this country is doing quite well...cheers.
Thank goodness for the diligent work done by our Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. The other thing John, my Holden Ute takes offence at being referred to as a shitbox. It was built in 1982 anyway. It and I do not care what comes out of the exhaust except the sweet 253 note from its twin system. I will go back to walking before I use either adblue or an electric car. Jeff.
I'm guessing he is an ebay doofus that watches youtube videos and gets just enough inspired to buy the tools used planning to make an empire using the tools. But when the tools has arrived his interest has moved on to something else.
The engineering behind all this stuff is fantastic. It's a great shame that diesel is falling out of favor when one considers how clean it can be if these systems are operating correctly. Countries like the UK do however need to put a little more regulation around modifications and emissions checks to make sure these systems do keep working through the life of the vehicle. At the moment one can broomstick the lot of it and get it all programmed out and still pass an MOT emissions check.. I suspect many are removed due to the huge costs when things go wrong.
When the emissions check looks for smoke under no engine load and very little else, no diesel that's running half way competently at all will fail emissions on this, even without a DPF.
There's a dpd/f disable mode on trucks when the pto is on, aimed at fire trucks to stop the fires starting from the 600°c the dpd/f's get to. Old mate hasn't worked on many vehicles if he thinks a full guard doesn't get full of grass... Plus it holds heat in at freeway speeds instead.
AdBlue is implemanted in euro6 ( either a , b, c...and now revision ap i believe) to get NOX down. Some euro6 engines have it some not as they comply. In some cases the same engine has different power output the lower power 2l turbo diesel under 150hp will get away without adblue but the same engine with higher power and over 150hp will require adblue to comply. And addblue will not be used at a rate that you will need to fill up like you do with diesel.... i did not realized in Australia a car could be brand new and not be euro6 equivalent emission standard...
Thanks John, always wondered what that sign was about at the petrol station. I wonder if we could get those same regulators to stop Victorians from going "Eh, fuck it" and slamming into each other on straight freeways?
Our works Berlingo has a warning of about 3k that you need to refill the adblue. I always thought the adblue is a direct replacement for a egr, but how you explained this it seems to work in a better functional way then an egr. Egr's are fun to clean out, but a new adblue tank with all its funky electronics on a Peugeot, costs 4k to replace. Owch!
- uhuh, it is the modern "engine rebuild" replacement - for cars whose engines don't break down (all too often..) - lets hope Ad-blue can be bypassed for those countries where bakkies / 'technical's' operation is more important than emissions (per km^2) Ad blue elimination is a task for any remote operation - "off highway" of course...
Here in the UK, our diesels had DPF a decade or more back. AD blue is a later inclusion in cars and vans that was firstly introduced on HGV's and buses. EURO 6, I believe.
If you choose high egr use you can avoid nox, but more sooting, higher load on dpf, and oil detergent, intake carbon. If you treat nox with nh4, raise compression, reduce egr, better lkngevity? More complicated more ship to go wrong.
A very informative video. Here in NZ I drive an off road euro truck totally in the forest/Bush and it uses adblue or it won't go!!. But all the forest harvesting machinery use far more diesel than the trucks don't require adblue . Where is the logic in this?? Poor possums breathing in all the shit from the machinery but at least the trucks are helping with clean possum air!! Keep up the good videos (dude)
I own a euro 6 add blue diesel here in the UK and the dash gives you a 1500 mile warning before your add blue runs out so if you do run out its your own silly fault, the advantage with the add blue system is that the DPF is now incorportated within the add blue system and now mounted closer to nthe exhaust manifold in other words under the bonnet as opposed to a DPF being mounted under the car, these are getting stolen at a rate of Knots because they are easily accessable, just try getting you battery recipricating saw up past the front sub frame and close to the exhaust manifold to remove the add blue can and combined DPF its virtually impossible.
Hi John, here in the UK my Amarok 2018 does have Adblue. A neccessary evil says I, but boy is it temperamental. At one point a warning light came up to say I had "too much oil", (dealer had serviced it for warranty purposes). I did have too much oil purely down to the level rising because of the adblue overdosing! Who knew!
What's so fantastically typical, is that at the vehicle registration office in Germany they will only issue up to a euro 4 stickers. Regardless if your car is euro 5 or 6.
My friend is a farm contractor in Northern Ireland, all his tractors have AdBlue tanks, but then he tells me if the tractors are running all day, you have to park up for about an hour to purge the system which produces huge quantities of black smoke. Only after this will the tractor start giving you full pulling power. Whats the point, you pollute without it and you pollute with it?
I think you'll find a significant number of great innovations in engineering started in a front bar. *Started*. Because the following day people followed up.
To this very day I'm still a bit skeptical about the efficacy of DEF (diesel exhaust fluid, AdBlue) since here in the States some of the exact same YMM vehicles (IE passenger pickup trucks) have it, and some don't. Ive seen dyno emissions results comparing the two and to be honest the DEF trucks did not make, in my opinion, enough of a difference to really make a difference, certainly not enough to justify the extra complexity compared to the the exact same YMM truck with just a DPF system.. To me, DEF is just another consumable to make money off of. And behind city busses in traffic good god jesus fucking Christ does hot DEF exhaust stink!! Smells like a puddle of hot concentrated swimming pool chlorine took a shit on top of steamed fish
@@batmanlives6456 That's just the PG description, it's actually worse in person.. much worse 🤢🤮 Hell hath no stink like a metro bus running DEF. Heavily chlorinated fish farts.. times 11
According to experienced Mobile Pit Mine mechanics DPF is good in theory but it is killing these engines in 25% the time of a deleted unit. The formulas used to promote this isn't based in reality, like most politicians.
Getting stranded somewhere in Australia's wide expanse of feck all is obviously inconvenient, possibly inconvenient enough to get you seriously killed, but it gets worse. I think. I can't find it now but when I was looking at the Mahindra Scorpio recently, which uses Adblue, I think I read some owners complain that, should you run out and the car stops, topping-up the Adblue tank won't get you going again. You must fill the tank completely AND get the dealer to reset something. Till then you're confined to 'limp mode'. Shirley not?
So, what would happen if one were stuck pout in the middle of nowhere, ran out of adblue, simply pissed in the tank? Or, just added water or some other liquid that the level sensor would interpret as "not empty"? Is there some sort of sensor that could tell the difference between adblue and water? I'm not advocating doing this all the time, just for long enough to get to a source of adblue.
add blue - you can in emergency replace with destiled water ;) Anyway it is water and a bit of piss - the concentration is quite low ( if it would be pure and you smell it - it will be the last thing you ever smell - in best case)
I'm sure the engineer that deigned the Subaru diesel engine may have had a few too many when he came up with the idea of injecting extra fuel into the engine to fuel the DPF, most of which ends up in the sump.
I think the pecking order in manufacturing is: 1/ Bean Counters - keep costs down and maximise profits. 2/ Lawyers - what can rhe business get away with to maximise profits. 3/ Engineers - have to design the products to appeal to consumers, all within limitations of what 1 and 2 dictate.
My DS3 has a bag of stuff up under the rear near the exhaust and each time i open the fuel filler cap it sends a squirt of this stuff into the system . No me neither !
On a serious note - if cars stop without Ad-Blu - manufacturers ought to be required to have an Ad-Blu gauge, similar to a fuel gauge, shown prominently on the display. Simple piece of programming. As for dash-board real estate, tell them stop stop the speedo at (say) 150, instead of 300, and use the vacant space for the Ad Blue gauge.
I am just picturing the " Eureka " moment. the 2 engineers where in the bar. its now 10pm. they have celebrated the birth of a new shit box, but where struggling to get the emmissions down. one goes to drain the sump, and standing there holding on to the bog roll holder trying to keep the stream from splashing on his sandles (thongs in Ausy) looking with fasinastion at the golden stream when the light bulb goes off. goea back to his mate ...." lishen to me ..how abou..how about we take some piss, and ....no ...no lhear me out....we put some in a tank....i know ..i know listen.... this is the clever bit....we pour it down the exhaust pipe.....WHEN ITS RUNNING....ha ....no think about it. it should work.....right beer?
Combustion chamber design and other aspects of what's an extremely complicated system to predict without the aid of the latest and greatest simulation packages.
Do not, under any circumstances put Adblue in your diesel tank, cust did that twice, 1st time started the engine and the car was written off, 2nd time realized and didnt start the engine, necessitating a new diesel tank, pump and most likely fuel lines
my work forklift has pigoil/Adblue/or what ever brand name, without limp home mode it also that burning crap thingy the work on and off and a lot of time into limp home mode it is dumb to rush to new standard too fast when you have a lot of old trucks and cummins engine, bikes, lawnmowers in the wild, give companies reasonable time and reasonable step forward at a times, make companies offer engine swap for good old trucks, no need to junk it if it is only the engine letting it down
I am driving a 2016 Honda HR-V 1,6 Diesel that is Euro 6 and it is not using ad-blue. Have the Honda technicians just been fiddling with the combustion process til it was compliant or should i fear VW levels of software trickery ? And what's your take on EU'S 0 emissions for car's from 2035 I do not at this point see where all the unicorn dust magic shall come from to make the power grid ready and the wallet full enough to make the normal person afford a decent range car without buying used fossil burning car's. Not to mention the lovely mass car fires when most cars would be electric. Sorry for grammatical and spelling mistakes as English is not my first language.
We all know that regulators, even when starting out with genuinely good policy, continue well down the path of diminishing returns in order to keep their jobs. So, the question is, how far down this path is reasonably far enough? Sure, some extremist will argue that not a single offensive molecule should be allowed to escape, but the only way for that to become a reality would be by not being born in the first place. Certainly there is *some* amount of oxides of nitrogen, for instance, that is not detectably harmful. Same CO and HC.
Thankyou John for the enlightenment, the raw meat eating, knuckle dragging Folk up here in FNQ do appreciate your information and humorous content. We will sacrifice a Buffalo in your honour at Xmas.
Good video John. i did know about AD Blue and N20 and the particle filter, and PM10 & PM2.5 I did not know that the particle filter had to be heated up to clean it out. Well thats not quite true it was you on another video you did some time ago. What I read originally was it needed to be cleaned out but that was several years ago but how was never described. I am very disappointed you don't mandate EU6 in Oz but thats the Government for you. However as you may know the Mayor of London is managing to screw owners of 2004 to 2016 diesels (pre EU6) with his ULEZ tax. Petrol cars from 2004 are exempt because they produce less nasties. As you can image this has lead to a lot of upset so much so we have vigilantes ripping all the big brother ULEZ cameras down.
Both of them are just more ways or gouging into your pockets. By the time you deduct the additional manufacturing cost/pollution for each system and the increased maintenance costs incurred from these systems failing, you have to wonder if the environment is any better off. Then of course if you use adblue you are buying that forever after it has been manufactured in an undoubtedly pollution free manner. It all gets to be a bit like Gillard and her "cash for clunkers" scheme. A major flop.
It's all well and good introducing new legislation regarding the emissions BUT here in the UK for example, my 2011 diesel van achieves 56 MPG (Euro 5) and passes the annual MOT without issue, however the local government want to introduce legislation that would require me to change to a later model that is Euro 6 compliant or pay a daily TAX/FINE of £12 in order to go about my daily business. The Euro 6 models I have looked at return a reduced MPG and I would be forced to scrap my perfectly road worthy van or pay the extra money every day. My van is a 1.6 diesel and what pisses me off even more is that there are diesel cars of the same age , using the same engine that will not fall foul of the new rules!.....Where's the sense in this?
Adblue doesn't last long in high temperatures countries. It crystallizes and goes rock solid. Adblue also goes bad in direct sunlight and when it's old stock. It literally has a use by date on the containers. Unless some unscrupulous seller has removed the Use By Date. Which is why so many people that buy tubs of adblue from petrol station four court have serious engine problems. The adblue tank and pump and pipes literally go rock solid. Which is why people with common sense (now) only buy it from an adblue pump at the fuel station. It's cooler under ground and the supply is refreshed on a regular basis. So think yourself lucky.
What is Adblu ? It is a name drummed up by the German Automotive Society for Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Why we just dont call it DEF like most countries on the planet is beyond me.
I understand that Adblue got its name after the marketing disaster of the more honest and accurate Golden Showers Additive.
Hahahaha
As a diesel mechanic in the US i have a different slant on adblue or def fluid as we know it.
The problem.... polution
The solution as you mentioned of 66% de-ionized water and urea (a byproduct of petroleum)
Dispenced in a plastic jug, placed in cardboard boxes stacked on wood pallets wrapped with plastic shrinkwrap.
Placed in diesel trucks and distributed to every ass bleeding retail establishment from the hollars of Appalachia to the desert of Arizona and the Canadian tundra.
Purchase the product and pour the contents in your tank then throw away the bottle, shrink-wrap and cardboard (upon which another truck will take to the landfill)... congratulations you have helped solve pollution!
If you could spell better, I might have paid attention. The illiterate shouldn't share opinions, as opinion is just cranial flatulence.
Great informative video John. As an automotive tech of 35 years +. The changes to comply with Euro emissions standards have even confused me. I'm an Australian based automotive technician. Highly Bosch trained. The general automotive public wouldn't know there is a difference in exhaust after treatment. Dpf. Diesel particulate filter. Deals with the fine soot particles that are produced with normal combustion of the fuel . Due to the high energy density of diesel fuel and the low energy conversion . Incomplete combustion ends in the production of soot. So the Dpf was designed to trap and capture the fine soot particles which will pass through the upper airways of human lungs . As mentioned in your video that primarily captures them in a small furnace to be dealt with later. Such the term. "After treatment". SCR is selective catalyst reduction. The addition of urea in to the exhaust is to combine nox ( oxides of nitrogen) with a readily available source of nitrogen to scavenge the nox with nn2 to reduce nitrogen oxides to produce nitrogen dioxide. With the vehicle density of a population of Australia it is not an emissions regulation to meet 0.005 gas per km. Due to the square km to vehicle ratio. Manufacturers can not justify the small amount of vehicles sold here on Australia soil. That will aid to the total emissions goals of the company. This is the reasons why "adblue' isn't a major requirement on most vehicles. Certain manufacturers that want there vehicles here won't delete emissions equipment to allow that vehicle to be sold in this country. Due to the cost of retooling for a certain market. But it still asks the question of when the nox sensor is in the realm of $600 plus for one sensor. Why isn't it just not fitted and a software rewrite just implemented.
Because dealers make more out of parts than any other point after sales.
Exactly!
35+ Years Exhaust fitter almost full understanding of the Scientific Design of Exhaust and Intake Systems, not brainwashing from interested party's training groups and government agency's re Green agenda political green house gas emissions that have very little to do with DPF's other than black soot bad white steam looking stuff good.
DPF's were designed to trap heavy Diesel particulates not light particles, and the associated burn back system either Diesel or Urea to release the same Heavy Particulates as much smaller particulates that in the public's view of what they are told is good and much better than Heavy particulates, or is it?
Particulates in the old form pumped out as black soot from exhaust's of mostly older or overly adjusted diesel injector pumps look horrible smelled like crap and did in very high concentrations (city's) cause some problems, properly tuned systems and well maintained vehicles did not cause any real problems other than the normal range given of by combustion engines.
The new systems now give of white smoke that looks like steam while a burnback is in motion, this process generates 64nm (Nanometers) size diesel particulates that can and do bypass the epidermis of our feeble human bodies and enters our blood steam (
Well we asked for it - now Euro 6 is coming to Oz
If you could come to the point rather than stirring around in your not funny saucepans of humour.
So if you burn recycled cooking oil and adblue... do you get the unmistakable odour of piss and chips 😕.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Just changed the (fully clogged) DPF filter of my car by myself. I took the old one to the recycling center and throw it in a big container of metallic stuff.
Do you guess where all those kilos of trapped ashes will go when they will press and triturate that metall stuff?
Bingo! In the air.
Pure genius.
You do know it contains precious metals don't you and has value don't you.
My sister bought an Audi Q7 brand new which kept running out of AdBlue and stopping. Turned out the plastic container had a crack in it. It took four visits for Audi to figure out they had used a plastic tank that wasn't even as good as Tupperware.
I worked at a Company in Norway, that had a total world monopoly on Adblue, (which is a trademark for DEF. diesel exhaust fluid) heaters and quality sensors, also fuel level sensors for all commercial vehicles. Look at the fuel sensor and adblue installations on your Trucks, Tractors etc., they all look similar that's because they all came from the same place, (made in China). The process what DEF does is known as SCR (Selective catalytic reduction) converting Nox into N2 and H2O, DEF is only distilled water and urea but you can't make it yourself because there is the quality sensor in the installation and it's so finely tuned that you will never get the right mix, It is measured optically but they were trying to make a sensor that measured the quality ultrasonically, don't know if they got so far as left 6 six years when the Yanks bought the company and moved it out to low paying lands, the company who now has the monopoly is called TE Connectivity.
@@filespec like the Norwegian guy above said those sensors are so fine tuned you can't use anything else. I tried water once I run out only to get an ad blue error "add blue of bad quality please visit service" 😅
My previous car was a Citroen C3 1.5 diesel from 2019 and it would warn you when you had 2400km of adblue left. Would have to be some serious roadtrip in the middle of absolutely nowhere for that to be a problem :D.
Although I got caught out once not realising how much more Adblue my car uses towing at highway speed. Now I just top up before a long trip. Not a problem.
Try that in a pickup or another big vehicle 3.0l diesel and then brim it to it's max weight. You will be lucky to get 5000km in total.
@@teovm yeah I know the bigger vehicles drink AdBlue much quicker. I drive a diesel van at work and that doesn't last 20k km per fill up as my C3 did.
Stralya mate 👍
The Adblue systems on PSA Europe vehicles had a clever system of using a plastic impellor on the Adblue pump, which is guaranteed to fail, leaving you with a £1000 bill for metal impellor pump, and a new tank as the pump is built-in!
When the warning light comes on you had 1500 miles before engine "re-start" was blocked, if you didn't switch off it would keep running, as they cannot turn the engine off on a car doing 70mph on the motorway
Helps explain why my 2017 Peugoet 508 with only 60,000 kms on the clock cost me $2,060 Adblue reservoir and fluid injector. First replacement was under warranty, this one was not. I intend to sell the vehicle before I need its 4th tank. Ridiculous. Great car if it wasn't for bloody emissions issues.
yep; hired a Ford Everest from Melbourne to Perth last September, had to top up the AdBlue tank at Norseman. A real learning experience. ps: was not aware the engine would stop if the AdBlue tank was empty,. so glad I did fill it up when I did. Book said one tank would last 5000Km.
AdBlue. I thought it was a range extender tank🤣
@@IT-sq5rj - ha ha - top-er-up... diesel or 98 (the best you could get).... lol...
You're lucky just topping it up fixed the problem. In my Peugeot, simply topping it up has no effect. The software needs to be re-set using genuine Peugeot OBD software. Generic OBD devices do not fix the problem. Great little earner for the PSA Group.
@@steve8567I.m in Canada, and i drive a 1994 dodge Cumins Diesel They have mechanical injector pumps and injectors No catalitic convertor, or egr, or ADblue tanks, just a muffler and tail pipe.It's so mechanical and simple it will run completely with out electrical devices except to run the starter.I just hope they Goverment lets me keep it. We are in -35c weather right know so its pretty smokey on start up and clears right out when warmed up. I've replaced the entire fuel system a year ago so i know it's running right. It will be my one and only Diesel truck. My hope is there are less and less of them on the road each year, An maybe the goverment will leave me alone
I got both DPF and AdBlue on my 2.0L diesel hatchback, and being a frenchie, the DPF uses a special aditive to lower the regen temperatures (Eolys 176).
Yup, we now have two Euro6 French cars, and it took me a long time to understand that the special additive for the DPF (or "FAP", as Peugeot calls it) is not used during the regenerative cycles (that is just accomplished by creating hotter exhaust by injecting more fuel later in the stroke), but is added to all fuel that ever goes through the engine, in order to modify the type of particles, lowering the temperature at which they burn off. This both lowers the amount of additional fuel that needs to be burned during regeneration (aka "burn-off"), but also allows the use of much more moderately priced materials. I seem to recall that it lowers regen temperaturs from somewhere around 600°C to just over 400°C or so. Brilliant stuff.
@@pinkdispatcher The AdBlue is added to the exhaust, not the intake air (Unless you've got one of Toyota's new - and very frightening when you look at the properties of ammonia - ammonia engines) all that's added to the intake air, apart from fuel and mechanical work to compress the air, is recirculated exhaust gas as this reduces combustion temperatures (At the expense of peak thermodynamic efficiency) in order to break fewer nitrogen molecules apart so fewer NOx compounds are formed.
Regeneration is a sign your car is not being used for what it's good at, namely intercity travel at 80+ km/h. Any car that's able to spend a decent amount of it's time cruising at those speeds will burn the soot out of the DPF in normal operation and never need to regen at all.
@@peglor The last paragraph is incorrect.I do 350Km at 110km/hr regularly non stop in our Land Cruiser or a Diesel Hi Ace,both regen at regular intervals during the trip.It is good to have a DPF guage on the dash read out so the driver can see how often it regends,and the Diff Pressure across the DPF,and a regen switch if neeeded,but i have never had to use it.
@@paulbarry1044 Apologies for not being clear - when I say never have a regen I mean never suffer the raised idle speed, lumpy idling, smelly exhaust and so on that go with a forced regen, where the engine is trying to create exhaust temperatures high enough to burn the soot off the filter while being driven slowly in traffic.
@@peglor Even driving slow in traffic with some idling, they will do a burn.I think problems happen with numerous short runs,and the vehicle never gets a chance to regen.Engine also not getting up to temperature during short runs does not help.With our Diesels,we have never had a DPF issues,and some are over 8 yrs old and done huge mileage.
Gday, we recently purchased a 2012 Colorado and a 2011 Mazda CX7, both are turbo diesel.
The Colorado has a catalytic converter and blows almost no black soot and runs beautifully, the CX7 has a PDF system and blows no soot at all! The tailpipe on the Colorado does have a black residue whereas the CX7 tailpipe is clean as a whistle and still looks brand new!
While we are not dedicated ”greenies”, we are pretty confident that both vehicles are a lot greener than the older vehicles that we replaced!
Great explanation but I'd have to take issue with a couple of things. As for "e" being the first key to fail on a computer just by virtue of it being most used, I find keys fail randomly depending where the crumbs fall on my laptop and even move around. Also, you seem to deride sorting out issues in the pub but I have to say that some of the World's best ideas have come from beerstorming sessions, I just can't remember what they were as I was pissed so fck yo, oh bgger, crmbs have got in the "" key now.
WASD and spacebar are usually the most used keys...
And if you're a LoL player the keys wear out prematurely for spelling a bunch of six letters words
I'm s ck of rep acing my ke boa d so I jus put up w ith itn w. I don t th nk any ody noti es.
I remember the most worn out key being the one that makes the little space ship shoot at the other little space ships.
Let's fix it by having the engineers actually spending time with those who will be using the product out in the actual world, instead of just sat in an office thinking they know what the customer wants!
Nothing wrong with the engineers, we design great products, but then the accountants take it through 'value engineering'' - which basically means it'll fail the day after any Guarantee expires.
@@Sgt_Bill_T_Co Yes I know! One of my inlaws was a drivetrain development engineer for Ford Australia. What lifespan do Ford develop their vehicles for? How long is the warranty! Two year servicing! 18K oil changes! Yes it should last just past the warranty period! So don't be the poor sucker who buys the vehicle after the warranty runs out!
Biggest problem for engineers in my experience is customers who never RTFM. I think some customers just sit on the manual and expect to understand everything by osmosis.
I haven’t checked recently but when I lived in Edithvale on the edge of Port Phillip Bay, it was possible to see a tinge of nitrogen dioxide on the horizon and the edges of the bay. It was the colour of black tea, cola drinks or bromine.
This all goes away on a clear windy day.
I'm willing to put a reasonable sum on the fact not a single ad blue system will last 100 thou km..Outside of the workshop are 3 everests and 2 rangers (ones a bt actually) all picked up as cheap ins write off..I don't care and neither should you the motors fit quite nicely under the bonnet of any previous bs 4wd..for the princely sum of about 8 grand I can give you 200kw without a single bit of bs to deal with..new car b fuct...thanks for the support John the second hand market in this country is doing quite well...cheers.
Thank goodness for the diligent work done by our Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries. The other thing John, my Holden Ute takes offence at being referred to as a shitbox. It was built in 1982 anyway. It and I do not care what comes out of the exhaust except the sweet 253 note from its twin system. I will go back to walking before I use either adblue or an electric car. Jeff.
Sending love from Canada dude!!!!! From the top of the globe to bottom! Love the content John.
Your cutting mat is so clean. :)
I'm guessing he is an ebay doofus that watches youtube videos and gets just enough inspired to buy the tools used planning to make an empire using the tools. But when the tools has arrived his interest has moved on to something else.
A clean and tidy workshop is the sign of a sick mind. 😂😂
@TheWombat2012 can't have the bloodstains on video I guess.
Spends a lot of time polishing tools.
The engineering behind all this stuff is fantastic. It's a great shame that diesel is falling out of favor when one considers how clean it can be if these systems are operating correctly.
Countries like the UK do however need to put a little more regulation around modifications and emissions checks to make sure these systems do keep working through the life of the vehicle. At the moment one can broomstick the lot of it and get it all programmed out and still pass an MOT emissions check.. I suspect many are removed due to the huge costs when things go wrong.
Yeah, Ford commercial vehicles seem to be most prone to add-blue problems.
When the emissions check looks for smoke under no engine load and very little else, no diesel that's running half way competently at all will fail emissions on this, even without a DPF.
There's a dpd/f disable mode on trucks when the pto is on, aimed at fire trucks to stop the fires starting from the 600°c the dpd/f's get to. Old mate hasn't worked on many vehicles if he thinks a full guard doesn't get full of grass... Plus it holds heat in at freeway speeds instead.
AdBlue is implemanted in euro6 ( either a , b, c...and now revision ap i believe) to get NOX down. Some euro6 engines have it some not as they comply. In some cases the same engine has different power output the lower power 2l turbo diesel under 150hp will get away without adblue but the same engine with higher power and over 150hp will require adblue to comply. And addblue will not be used at a rate that you will need to fill up like you do with diesel.... i did not realized in Australia a car could be brand new and not be euro6 equivalent emission standard...
Thanks John, always wondered what that sign was about at the petrol station.
I wonder if we could get those same regulators to stop Victorians from going "Eh, fuck it" and slamming into each other on straight freeways?
Keep em in Victoria. They will bail their failed state and turn other states into the same.
Our works Berlingo has a warning of about 3k that you need to refill the adblue.
I always thought the adblue is a direct replacement for a egr, but how you explained this it seems to work in a better functional way then an egr.
Egr's are fun to clean out, but a new adblue tank with all its funky electronics on a Peugeot, costs 4k to replace. Owch!
- uhuh, it is the modern "engine rebuild" replacement - for cars whose engines don't break down (all too often..) - lets hope Ad-blue can be bypassed for those countries where bakkies / 'technical's' operation is more important than emissions (per km^2)
Ad blue elimination is a task for any remote operation - "off highway" of course...
Here in the UK, our diesels had DPF a decade or more back. AD blue is a later inclusion in cars and vans that was firstly introduced on HGV's and buses. EURO 6, I believe.
If you choose high egr use you can avoid nox, but more sooting, higher load on dpf, and oil detergent, intake carbon. If you treat nox with nh4, raise compression, reduce egr, better lkngevity? More complicated more ship to go wrong.
ABSOLUTE FANTASTIC info....nailed it John...BRAVO!!!
A very informative video.
Here in NZ I drive an off road euro truck totally in the forest/Bush and it uses adblue or it won't go!!.
But all the forest harvesting machinery use far more diesel than the trucks don't require adblue .
Where is the logic in this?? Poor possums breathing in all the shit from the machinery but at least the trucks are helping with clean possum air!!
Keep up the good videos (dude)
So in a pinch, being stuck on the Gun barrel Highway, with an empty Adblue tank, could I just piss in it to fool the ECU?
Bushcraft, love it!
I own a euro 6 add blue diesel here in the UK and the dash gives you a 1500 mile warning before your add blue runs out so if you do run out its your own silly fault, the advantage with the add blue system is that the DPF is now incorportated within the add blue system and now mounted closer to nthe exhaust manifold in other words under the bonnet as opposed to a DPF being mounted under the car, these are getting stolen at a rate of Knots because they are easily accessable, just try getting you battery recipricating saw up past the front sub frame and close to the exhaust manifold to remove the add blue can and combined DPF its virtually impossible.
I think you might be confusing the DPF with the Catalytic Converter? There’s no platinum in a DPF, just diesel soot. 👍
Turn it up. I'm def
Hi John, here in the UK my Amarok 2018 does have Adblue. A neccessary evil says I, but boy is it temperamental. At one point a warning light came up to say I had "too much oil", (dealer had serviced it for warranty purposes). I did have too much oil purely down to the level rising because of the adblue overdosing! Who knew!
Except Adblue has no relation to motor oil level it was definitely slightly overfilled.
Problems 1 and 2 are common in Australia currently.
What's so fantastically typical, is that at the vehicle registration office in Germany they will only issue up to a euro 4 stickers. Regardless if your car is euro 5 or 6.
My friend is a farm contractor in Northern Ireland, all his tractors have AdBlue tanks, but then he tells me if the tractors are running all day, you have to park up for about an hour to purge the system which produces huge quantities of black smoke. Only after this will the tractor start giving you full pulling power. Whats the point, you pollute without it and you pollute with it?
I think you'll find a significant number of great innovations in engineering started in a front bar. *Started*. Because the following day people followed up.
My car (BMW F30 335d 2017) is Euro6 and ULEZ compliant, but it definitely does not use AdBlu!
To this very day I'm still a bit skeptical about the efficacy of DEF (diesel exhaust fluid, AdBlue) since here in the States some of the exact same YMM vehicles (IE passenger pickup trucks) have it, and some don't. Ive seen dyno emissions results comparing the two and to be honest the DEF trucks did not make, in my opinion, enough of a difference to really make a difference, certainly not enough to justify the extra complexity compared to the the exact same YMM truck with just a DPF system.. To me, DEF is just another consumable to make money off of. And behind city busses in traffic good god jesus fucking Christ does hot DEF exhaust stink!! Smells like a puddle of hot concentrated swimming pool chlorine took a shit on top of steamed fish
Thanks for that description…
It will definitely stick with me…
As usual! They are taking the piss! Wonder if Pfizer own the company?
Just a thought…
If you’re low on adblue … stopping by the pub could be a good idea 👍
You mates will help too .. no doubt
@@batmanlives6456 That's just the PG description, it's actually worse in person.. much worse 🤢🤮 Hell hath no stink like a metro bus running DEF. Heavily chlorinated fish farts.. times 11
@@batmanlives6456 Now you are taking the piss! Don't let BudLight drinkers piss in your tank! It'll go down on you!
I have a 2017 v6 550 amarok (German built - Euro Spec) togither with a 2023 Ford Everest v6 and both use ad blue.
In "Murikkka, all diesels now require a DPF and AdBlue for the double whammy of maintenance nightmares.
Would love to wear that that hatchet on my belt here in CA!
According to experienced Mobile Pit Mine mechanics DPF is good in theory but it is killing these engines in 25% the time of a deleted unit. The formulas used to promote this isn't based in reality, like most politicians.
We only have one Ford vehicle in our 15 vehicle fleet…Transit 2019…just smoked a Turbo after 34000KM. SCR and DPF was the so called culprit!!!
AdBlue.
In America we call it diesel exhaust fluid (DEF).
Getting stranded somewhere in Australia's wide expanse of feck all is obviously inconvenient, possibly inconvenient enough to get you seriously killed, but it gets worse. I think. I can't find it now but when I was looking at the Mahindra Scorpio recently, which uses Adblue, I think I read some owners complain that, should you run out and the car stops, topping-up the Adblue tank won't get you going again. You must fill the tank completely AND get the dealer to reset something. Till then you're confined to 'limp mode'.
Shirley not?
Lets start a rumour. I think you're believable. 😊 Apparently some vehicles need a minute before restarting, so the ECU can update Adblue status.
My new SQ5 TDi does have both DPF and Ad Blue, well I`m in Europe.
You should have saved this question for the next episode sponsored by Manscaped. I understand their products are effective against shrubbery build-up.
Good job explaining that engineering is actually a process, unbeknownst to beard strokers and the general pubic.
So, what would happen if one were stuck pout in the middle of nowhere, ran out of adblue, simply pissed in the tank? Or, just added water or some other liquid that the level sensor would interpret as "not empty"? Is there some sort of sensor that could tell the difference between adblue and water? I'm not advocating doing this all the time, just for long enough to get to a source of adblue.
add blue - you can in emergency replace with destiled water ;) Anyway it is water and a bit of piss - the concentration is quite low ( if it would be pure and you smell it - it will be the last thing you ever smell - in best case)
you've got your hat on umop apisdn
ad blue is for writing off a small % of diesel cars a year due to a fill up mistake
Just rolled in... customer states lol dumb asses be dumb.
I'm sure the engineer that deigned the Subaru diesel engine may have had a few too many when he came up with the idea of injecting extra fuel into the engine to fuel the DPF, most of which ends up in the sump.
I see John as very car hypergamous.
What was clean is now dirty, what was fast is glacial, what was safe is now a death trap. Insatiable.
In the UK my 2017 Honda CRV has a Euro 6 1.6 Diesel engine that doesn't use or need AdBlue.
I miss my 1970s shitbox😥
I have an L200 with the euro six compliant engine that does not require add blue.
Diluted AddBlu makes great fertiliser, the front lawn turns green overnight
Since watching people filling their adblue tank I now really do not like diesel at all.
If Ford did indeed know much about their Rangers, the automatic transmissions would not still be falling out of them left, right and centre...
I think the pecking order in manufacturing is:
1/ Bean Counters - keep costs down and maximise profits.
2/ Lawyers - what can rhe business get away with to maximise profits.
3/ Engineers - have to design the products to appeal to consumers, all within limitations of what 1 and 2 dictate.
My DS3 has a bag of stuff up under the rear near the exhaust and each time i open the fuel filler cap it sends a squirt of this stuff into the system . No me neither !
DPF would seem to be pre Add blue.
On a serious note - if cars stop without Ad-Blu - manufacturers ought to be required to have an Ad-Blu gauge, similar to a fuel gauge, shown prominently on the display.
Simple piece of programming. As for dash-board real estate, tell them stop stop the speedo at (say) 150, instead of 300, and use the vacant space for the Ad Blue gauge.
Hey big guy I am lucky enough to not even be able to use an add blue bowser maybe I have found all the bad ones.
I am just picturing the " Eureka " moment. the 2 engineers where in the bar. its now 10pm. they have celebrated the birth of a new shit box, but where struggling to get the emmissions down. one goes to drain the sump, and standing there holding on to the bog roll holder trying to keep the stream from splashing on his sandles (thongs in Ausy) looking with fasinastion at the golden stream when the light bulb goes off. goea back to his mate ...." lishen to me ..how abou..how about we take some piss, and ....no ...no lhear me out....we put some in a tank....i know ..i know listen.... this is the clever bit....we pour it down the exhaust pipe.....WHEN ITS RUNNING....ha ....no think about it. it should work.....right beer?
The adblue tank is empty... There is no sensor to check it is adblue. Any water will do. No need even to add 32% urine to distilled water.
All these emission’s regulations are choking the industries. The UE, the EPA can all go hell in a hand basket!
My workmates and I have always referred to AdBlue as piss.
Thr VW Amarok uses Adblue here in Europe.
yes, the Pinto existed because Ford did "lots of testing" and enginerding. they had really RULLY good reasons for making those design choices.
Was the first thought I had when John mentioned "good car manufacturing research"!
I have a straight pipe exhaust and less repairs.
My truck has no dpf and no adblue. Bought new 2021 from factory that way (Australia). I don't understand the laws here.
What truck do you have?
I did see a temporary dodge but being a goodie two socks I won’t post it here 😂😝
Didn't answer the obvious question of whether you can just piss in the tank?
Simple answer no you cannot as the systems detect quality
@@darrylpaulhus3069must be drinking Bud Lite........
I now have a vision of an Australian broken down in the middle of nowhere trying to piss in an adblue tank .
Why do some engines achieve Euro 6 without Adblue ? Like the Fiat Ducato comercial.
Combustion chamber design and other aspects of what's an extremely complicated system to predict without the aid of the latest and greatest simulation packages.
one way to fix all your exhaust probs.. run lpg..
Do not, under any circumstances put Adblue in your diesel tank, cust did that twice, 1st time started the engine and the car was written off, 2nd time realized and didnt start the engine, necessitating a new diesel tank, pump and most likely fuel lines
@TE_-LGRAMAutoExpertJohnCadogan Yep, can do, what would you like to know
can dpf be removed? I imagine any 4x4 going off road without a bash plate protecting the DPF will probably get damaged.
Yes it can; however its illegal in Australia to operate your diesel vehicle without a DPF.
unless it's old enough model I guess😊
Anyway, there are many cars in Europe comlying with Euro 6, that do not have ad blue in their systems.
@TE_-LGRAMAutoExpertJohnCadogan Discuss what? Suzuki Vitara 1.6 Diesel 2015 onwards, its EURO 6. At least that is what they have registed on paper.
Politicians can fill your adblue tank 😂because they are full of it 😂
I believe the rational is stoichiometrically induced, as in, its yer efficiency what done it......
my work forklift has pigoil/Adblue/or what ever brand name, without limp home mode
it also that burning crap thingy the work on and off and a lot of time into limp home mode
it is dumb to rush to new standard too fast when you have a lot of old trucks and cummins engine, bikes, lawnmowers
in the wild, give companies reasonable time and reasonable step forward at a times,
make companies offer engine swap for good old trucks, no need to junk it if it is only the engine letting it down
I am driving a 2016 Honda HR-V 1,6 Diesel that is Euro 6 and it is not using ad-blue.
Have the Honda technicians just been fiddling with the combustion process til it was compliant or should i fear VW levels of software trickery ?
And what's your take on EU'S 0 emissions for car's from 2035
I do not at this point see where all the unicorn dust magic shall come from to make the power grid ready and the wallet full enough to make the normal person afford a decent range car without buying used fossil burning car's.
Not to mention the lovely mass car fires when most cars would be electric.
Sorry for grammatical and spelling mistakes as English is not my first language.
Dude. Thanks. Wondered this but too stupid to Google it myself 😂
Regarding running out of Adblue in a emergency being mostly water can you put water in the adblue tank to get you to a service station
Distilled water onlf6, or else kiss your catalytic converter goodbye.
John, what would I need to drink to produce my own usable DEF (ADBLUE)?
Yes, this question is totally taking the piss....
We all know that regulators, even when starting out with genuinely good policy, continue well down the path of diminishing returns in order to keep their jobs. So, the question is, how far down this path is reasonably far enough? Sure, some extremist will argue that not a single offensive molecule should be allowed to escape, but the only way for that to become a reality would be by not being born in the first place. Certainly there is *some* amount of oxides of nitrogen, for instance, that is not detectably harmful. Same CO and HC.
Just fill up your add blue tank with diesel problems solved
Silverado 2500HD also uses AdBlue
At a Pinch !! Can one pee in the Add Blue tank to keep going in the outback ?? 😉😉
Thankyou John for the enlightenment, the raw meat eating, knuckle dragging Folk up here in FNQ do appreciate your information and humorous content. We will sacrifice a Buffalo in your honour at Xmas.
Sacrifice yourselves and leave the buffalo roaming. (I mean: thank you.)
Good video John. i did know about AD Blue and N20 and the particle filter, and PM10 & PM2.5 I did not know that the particle filter had to be heated up to clean it out. Well thats not quite true it was you on another video you did some time ago. What I read originally was it needed to be cleaned out but that was several years ago but how was never described. I am very disappointed you don't mandate EU6 in Oz but thats the Government for you. However as you may know the Mayor of London is managing to screw owners of 2004 to 2016 diesels (pre EU6) with his ULEZ tax. Petrol cars from 2004 are exempt because they produce less nasties. As you can image this has lead to a lot of upset so much so we have vigilantes ripping all the big brother ULEZ cameras down.
Both of them are just more ways or gouging into your pockets. By the time you deduct the additional manufacturing cost/pollution for each system and the increased maintenance costs incurred from these systems failing, you have to wonder if the environment is any better off.
Then of course if you use adblue you are buying that forever after it has been manufactured in an undoubtedly pollution free manner.
It all gets to be a bit like Gillard and her "cash for clunkers" scheme. A major flop.
John can you give me your take on the BYD blade battery is it as safe as it's claimed. Thanks
It's all well and good introducing new legislation regarding the emissions BUT here in the UK for example, my 2011 diesel van achieves 56 MPG (Euro 5) and passes the annual MOT without issue, however the local government want to introduce legislation that would require me to change to a later model that is Euro 6 compliant or pay a daily TAX/FINE of £12 in order to go about my daily business. The Euro 6 models I have looked at return a reduced MPG and I would be forced to scrap my perfectly road worthy van or pay the extra money every day. My van is a 1.6 diesel and what pisses me off even more is that there are diesel cars of the same age , using the same engine that will not fall foul of the new rules!.....Where's the sense in this?
Adblue doesn't last long in high temperatures countries. It crystallizes and goes rock solid. Adblue also goes bad in direct sunlight and when it's old stock. It literally has a use by date on the containers. Unless some unscrupulous seller has removed the Use By Date. Which is why so many people that buy tubs of adblue from petrol station four court have serious engine problems. The adblue tank and pump and pipes literally go rock solid. Which is why people with common sense (now) only buy it from an adblue pump at the fuel station. It's cooler under ground and the supply is refreshed on a regular basis. So think yourself lucky.
Is that hatchet available to various religious groups?
Basically adblue is def and is just the marketing name for it, just like Blue DEF is one of the marketing names for the same stuff here in the states.
John just taking the piss🤣🤣
What is Adblu ? It is a name drummed up by the German Automotive Society for Diesel Exhaust Fluid. Why we just dont call it DEF like most countries on the planet is beyond me.