Carmakers Built a £3,000 KILL SWITCH Into Your Diesel — Here's WHY
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If you drive a diesel registered from around 2015 onwards, there is a countdown running in your car's software right now. When it reaches zero, the engine will refuse to start — and it is legally required to.
Since Euro 6 came in, nearly every diesel car, van and lorry sold in Europe has been fitted with selective catalytic reduction — the system that sprays AdBlue into the exhaust to break down nitrogen oxides. The regulations require the vehicle to enforce its own compliance, so when the system faults, the car warns you, then limits power, then tells you how many miles remain before it will not restart. On a Mercedes the message reads "start not possible" and counts down as you drive. Once you switch it off after zero, that is where the car stays.
And it usually isn't the fluid. The most common cause is a NOx sensor — £300 to £700 fitted, and most cars have two. AdBlue pumps run £400 to £800. Tanks are often sold as a sealed module with the pump, heater and sensors built in, at £600 to £1,200. Full dealer repairs have been quoted at around £3,000, on a car that drives perfectly.
This video covers what the system actually is and why it exists, the three stages of the countdown, every component that commonly fails and what it costs, why topping the tank up doesn't fix a recurring warning, why deleting the system is illegal — up to £1,000 for a car and £2,500 for a van under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, plus MOT failure and invalidated insurance — and six things you can do this week to make sure it never happens to you.
Also: why the vehicles worst affected are the ones people depend on for work, and why a cheap used diesel with this system fitted may not be the bargain the price suggests.
Has this happened to you? What was the car, and what did the garage charge? Tell me in the comments.
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1:- Do Not Buy from a garage forecourt or from any store (Halfords for example) that has had the "AD-Blue" left outside in the sunshine, as it starts the crystallization process.
2nd :- If you see any "AD-Blue" container with crystalation around the cap. Do Not Buy it , or any container of Ad-Blue from that batch number. It's possible that it has been left outside in the sun. even if it's now in the store, or it's old stock.
3rd :- check the production date, as old stock could cause problems.
If there is such a problem with cristalizing why is the anti cristal solution not added to the addblue when it is manufactured? Yet africa china india, Pakistan along with every other stan don't have any of, or very few of these regs, so effectively nullifying Europe's agenda.
Carmakers Built a £3,000 KILL SWITCH Into Your Diesel — Here's WHY
The Sleeper List
62,118 views
If you drive a diesel registered from around 2015 onwards, there is a countdown running in your car's software right now. When it reaches zero, the engine will refuse to start — and it is legally required to.
Since Euro 6 came in, nearly every diesel car, van and lorry sold in Europe has been fitted with selective catalytic reduction — the system that sprays AdBlue into the exhaust to break down nitrogen oxides. The regulations require the vehicle to enforce its own compliance, so when the system faults, the car warns you, then limits power, then tells you how many miles remain before it will not restart. On a Mercedes the message reads "start not possible" and counts down as you drive. Once you switch it off after zero, that is where the car stays.
And it usually isn't the fluid. The most common cause is a NOx sensor — £300 to £700 fitted, and most cars have two. AdBlue pumps run £400 to £800. Tanks are often sold as a sealed module with the pump, heater and sensors built in, at £600 to £1,200. Full dealer repairs have been quoted at around £3,000, on a car that drives perfectly.
This video covers what the system actually is and why it exists, the three stages of the countdown, every component that commonly fails and what it costs, why topping the tank up doesn't fix a recurring warning, why deleting the system is illegal — up to £1,000 for a car and £2,500 for a van under the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, plus MOT failure and invalidated insurance — and six things you can do this week to make sure it never happens to you.
Also: why the vehicles worst affected are the ones people depend on for work, and why a cheap used diesel with this system fitted may not be the bargain the price suggests.
Has this happened to you? What was the car, and what did the garage charge? Tell me in the comments.
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