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Adblue .........................
........................ aka Diesel Exhaust Fluid.
Chatting with a truck driver a while ago, whose job it was to deliver this stuff to various service stations around the UK, I started to take note of it's existence.
Until then I had never even heard of it or recognised the existence of such material (since then I can't help but notice the adverts on some service station forecourts or the storage tanks themselves).
The conversation wasn't very enlightening simply on the basis that he was making a good enough living from handling the Adblue between a bulk storage place and taking it to the forecourts where the heavy trucks are obliged to take it on board and use it, apparently by injecting it into their exhaust to mix with the fumes.
So, my curiosity leads me to ask which vehicles are using DEF nowadays and which way is the future heading?
Diesel exhaust fluid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Any truck sold after about 2008 if memory serves. I remember all the rushing to get older vehicles registered before the cut off but can't exactly place it.
One of our sales reps got a Hyundai 4x4 that used it too. The bottle was supposed to last the service interval but didn't.
This technology is sensible compared to hybrids. They'll be scrapping the likes of the new bus for London at 5 years old. Outside the warranty period no one will touch them. Very green that, totally remanufacturing the vehicle.
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The exhaust silencer/filter for some Euro 6 trucks is £13000 to replace
a diesel particulate filter that has to be fitted to some diesel trucks /busses to go into London LEZ are £5K a pop
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"Until then I had never even heard of it or recognised the existence of such material (since then I can't help but notice the adverts on some service station forecourts or the storage tanks themselves)."
Hello, where have you been?
diesel vehicles both large and small have been using AdBlue since at least 2010 in N. America and the EC....
Specifically to reduce NOx to N2 and H20.
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