D90 pick up driving position

On or around Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:57:45 +0100, AJH <[email protected]>
enlightened us thusly:

>On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:41:27 -0000, "Huw"
><hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Engines are dictated by emmission legistlation so there will be no return to
>>'simple' TDi200 type engines.
>
>We saw this with carburetors being replaced by fuel injection. Are you
>now saying that conventional diesel injection cannot meet emissions
>regulations so electronic and common rail will be the only methods
>used in future for diesels?

very likely. We're up to euro III with euro IV and V in the pipeline, now,
aren't we?

somewhere along the line (probably euro III) the conventional mechanical
diesel pump and spring-loaded injectors don't cope, so you go over to
electronic controls, unfortunately.
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"AJH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:33:19 +0000, Austin Shackles
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Hellova lot of the trendy lifestyle doublecab pickups appearing round
>>here,
>>often towing 3-axle sheep trailers.
>
> Is this new? There was a tax break which meant buying one of these, as
> long as payload was over 1 tonne, got you a family car and reclaim the
> VAT.
>

It is recent, since VAT was proven to be reclaimable one ton trucks
irrespective of doors and windows. The tax situation is being revised to be
less favourable before long though.
Why anyone would want one of these [or a 90 station wagon at all] if they
were not VAT registered and eligible to reclaim it is one of the great
mysteries of the 21st Century so far.

Just to clarify another point made, being that engines are going electronic,
there are in fact one or two legacy engines still available if you are very
quick, examples being the Ford and Mazda pick-up diesels and the Mitsu L200,
both of which are indirect injection, mechanical and not long for this
World. Even the TD5 electronic unit apparently will not meet EuroIV and will
be phased out within 12 months if not sooner.

Huw

"AJH" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:41:27 -0000, "Huw"
> <hedydd[nospam]@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Engines are dictated by emmission legistlation so there will be no return
>>to
>>'simple' TDi200 type engines.
>
> We saw this with carburetors being replaced by fuel injection. Are you
> now saying that conventional diesel injection cannot meet emissions
> regulations so electronic and common rail will be the only methods
> used in future for diesels?
>

Yes. Even off-road engines now need to meet tier 111 in stages. There are
very few engines over 100hp that are now without electronic injector pumps
and over 160hp they will need to be multivalve common rail or similar by
next Spring.
Roadgoing type vehicles such as LR already have to meet stricter limits and
there are now very few engines indeed without electronic control and only
less than a handful without turbochargers.

Huw