For the last 30,000 miles I've run my 2001 Skoda Octavia 1.9 TDI with 110,000 miles mainly on Shell V-Power diesel. Having done a fairly fast run down the motorway and left it parked overnight, the ...

Because it's an engine designed to be built as cheaply as possible and the price cutting on the 1.6 EA189 led to the emissions defeat programming that was a cheap way of fooling the emissions test on ...

Part of the great debate as to why 6.0L Power Strokes have such a bad reputation for reliability is directly linked to their use of exhaust gas recirculation (EGR). When we imagine a diesel ...

Is your diesel truck struggling with poor engine performance, sluggish acceleration or reduced fuel economy? You might have a problem with your exhaust gas recirculation system. That might seem like a ...

EGR Engines still plague owners of older trucks with problems. While most of the early problems have been engineered out of the exhaust gas recirculation systems on today’s clean diesel engines, ...

This story appears in the July/August 2012 issue of Equipment & Maintenance Update, a supplement to the July 9 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. The coolers at the ...

In the diesel performance world, Ford 6.0L Power Stroke engines have a bad reputation for blowing head gaskets and sticking EGR valves when owners modify them. There are a number of reasons why people ...

Several years ago, Paul Wion, corporate fleet supervisor at Lewis Tree Service in upstate New York, got up during a Shop Talk session at a TMC meeting to describe a fix for diesel particulate filters ...

Most diesel engines in the U.S. use a combination of technologies to reduce emissions. Usually there will be a diesel particulate filter (DPF), selective catalytic reduction (SCR) with urea (DEF fluid ...