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Are diesel particulate filters more trouble than help?

Chris Chilton, 26 August 2011 09:50

If you’ve seen the latest September 2011 issue of CAR Magazine, you might have noticed a news story about diesel particulate filters, and how a failing one could land you with a £1500 repair bill that isn’t covered by any warranty. DPFs started appearing on diesel cars a decade ago. Like catalytic converters on petrol cars, they sit in the ...

Why we've all got to retrain for the electric revolution

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Chris Chilton, 17 August 2010 10:37

Think you know what makes a car tick? I thought I did. Now I’m no engineer or even a particularly gifted mechanic, but I’ve stripped cars to naked shells, rebuilt engines from the bare block up, changed clutches, swapped head gaskets and generally fiddled with enough motors to vaguely keep up when some boffin on a car launch is explaining ...

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