Diesel scrappage scheme

lightning · May 6, 2017

K14 said:
Can't believe you sold a 2006 csw as it was £220 more to tax. We used to pay the highest band tax on my wife's car, but I didn't give a toss as fuel costs are so high. £220 is three tanks of fuel in my 110 tdi and it doesn't seem to last very long. If anything forces me to part with my beloved defender it will be fuel costs.

We'd decided to sell the 90 due to tax and other running costs. However after taking a deposit l realised it was a mistake. But the 90 was a bit small for my needs. I'd put the deposit on a 110 before the 90 was collected!
l then sold my van.
Fortunately the 110 CSW turned out to be in as good condition as the 90 we'd just sold.
l've done 30,000 miles in the 110 in 2 1/2 years. Running costs are fairly high but still cheaper than the payments on a van. And the Defender will still be worth a fair bit in a few years where you lose most of the money in depreciation on vans.

lynall · May 7, 2017

Speckydude said:
Draft of their air quality plan, released today made no mention of a 'scrappage scheme'. Not the first time they've hinted at stuff and then failed to give it substance, the Spring Budget would have been the plaace to at least say they would look into such a scheme.

Since the VW and others were caught out with the real-world emissions limits missing the lab-test results by miles, this will haunt many Governments. But the real polluters are the larger diesels.
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the next big thing with be hydrogen cars and alt-fuelled light goods.

Im not so sure ref the larger diesels, well maintained large diesels are clean and unlike cars run hard and clean most of the time whereas a car runs light hence needing regens of the dpf etc
Now 20 year old shagged buses on private plates hats another matter.

Iirc Caterpillar not caught out some years back same as VW but Iirc it was some sort of average scheme so if they had enough super clean engines they could have X percentage dirty ones so long as the overall total was correct, I think they got fined millions.

Then we get ship engines that run on pretty much crude oil, but within certain distance of shore have to switch to cleaner derv for better emissions!

Im sure ive shown this pic before but this is a Scania 18 months old with 200k on the clock all the Euro 6 models are as clean.

flat · May 7, 2017

lynall said:
Im not so sure ref the larger diesels, well maintained large diesels are clean and unlike cars run hard and clean most of the time whereas a car runs light hence needing regens of the dpf etc
Now 20 year old shagged buses on private plates hats another matter.

Iirc Caterpillar not caught out some years back same as VW but Iirc it was some sort of average scheme so if they had enough super clean engines they could have X percentage dirty ones so long as the overall total was correct, I think they got fined millions.

Then we get ship engines that run on pretty much crude oil, but within certain distance of shore have to switch to cleaner derv for better emissions!

Im sure ive shown this pic before but this is a Scania 18 months old with 200k on the clock all the Euro 6 models are as clean.

WHat picture?

Diesel scrappage scheme

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