[casstony]

We learned a bit about diesel engines the hard way recently. My sister's Ford Territory cracked an injector - price of the part only from Ford was $1500. A few weeks later at 100,000km an EGR valve broke - price of the part only from Ford was nearly $1600.

I talked to a couple of independent mechanics and the jobs can be done much cheaper but they also recommended running a cleaner through the injectors and then another cleaner to remove carbon build-up from the EGR valve and cylinders. I had that done on my Territory today and they showed me a video of enormous plume of smoke exiting the exhaust.

I've got a clean engine now but I think there are too many pollution issues associated with diesel for it to be used as a car fuel. There should be a ban on the sale of new cars with diesel engines.