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[DSM10000]

I did have a look at second hand tanks which are around £150 on eBay and nox sensors, not oem, are about £200. If your local garage are happy fitting them with no part warranty then repairs can be achieved reasonably.

But why are used tanks for sale?

Also , I believe that non OEM sensors are not the most reliable.

It seems that in the persuit of chasing tighter and tighter EU emissions standards more problems are created and the "solutions" are far from robust.

 

[tonyblue]

Again, over optimistic....

A second hand AdBlue tank is fine if you fit it in a hurry with the intention of getting get rid of a troublesome car. But it will have a nozzle and a sensor potentially with tens of thousands of miles under their belly, and so the liklihood of a failure is again high.

As for non-genuine NOx sensors.... apparently many of these don't actually work, quite a few members on here bought these and had to return them.

There's no way around it... the MB AdBlue system is poorly designed, poorly implemented, and has the potential of becoming a major money pit.

Having said that, they don't all go wrong... but it's a Russian roulette. As I said, my own risk appetite is very low. Personal preference.

Genuine nox comes in at £584 from Mercedes, it’s a case of shopping around I guess and taking chances on second hand parts and how old they are.
Thanks for your thoughts though.

 

[tonyblue]

But why are used tanks for sale?

Also , I believe that non OEM sensors are not the most reliable.

It seems that in the persuit of chasing tighter and tighter EU emissions standards more problems are created and the "solutions" are far from robust.

Used tanks etc quite often come from crash damaged write offs which can sometimes be quite new vehicles, my local Indy has loads of Mercs stacked up outside for spares.

 

[DSM10000]

Used tanks etc quite often come from crash damaged write offs which can sometimes be quite new vehicles, my local Indy has loads of Mercs stacked up outside for spares.

Indeed.

But fundamentally,, Adblue is a kneejerk reaction to solving a problem that has better solutions.

 

[tonyblue]

Indeed.

But fundamentally,, Adblue is a kneejerk reaction to solving a problem that has better solutions.

Very true, a poor solution.
I would class silly electric vehicles as a knee jerk reaction to our climate issues as governments wouldn’t wait for clean engines to hit the market so went back 50 years to milk floats with sat nav’s.

 

[DSM10000]

Very true, a poor solution.
I would class silly electric vehicles as a knee jerk reaction to our climate issues as governments wouldn’t wait for clean engines to hit the market so went back 50 years to milk floats with sat nav’s.

Going back severel decades clean burn petrol engines were available running at around 20 :1.

Californiia mandated the use of catalytic converters which require the use of the stochiometric ratio of around 14:1 for petrol.

 

[markjay]

Very true, a poor solution.
I would class silly electric vehicles as a knee jerk reaction to our climate issues as governments wouldn’t wait for clean engines to hit the market so went back 50 years to milk floats with sat nav’s.

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