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diesels and catalytic converters,,since when?

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diesels and catalytic converters,,since when?

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for how long have new diesel vehicles been coming out with a catalytic converter???seen a new landcruiser trayback and a newish courier the other day,,,both had cats fitted.....is this a new law (adr etc)?????
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Post by runnin4life »

i only thought cats were fitted to vehicles runnin unleaded because of gases produced when the unleade was burnt and i was told that deisel doesnt produce this gas


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Post by Bluefreak »

Been running them in Europe for ages... Slowly filtered down to us. I'm told that some of the additives in low sulphur diesel get caught up in the cat.
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Post by Tiny »

I understand they are "scrubber" not CAT convertors......get rid of carbon content in the exaust, but maybe mistakes, they my run both now??
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Post by Shadow »

I am pretty sure the reason diesels didnt have cat's was because of thier "commercial" status not that they didnt do anything for the emisions of diesels.
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Post by Gribble »

They work much the same as petrol cats. Diesels have an astronomical amount of NOx emmisions because of their high compression temps. To conform to EuroIII the manufactures had to install them in order to pass the standard.
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Post by cookiesa »

My 94 300 Tdi Disco has one.
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