W124 Self Levelling Suspension

[big x]

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[Birdman]

Yes, lengthy repairs exacerbate the cost of ownership. Cars are being engineered to last 30 years but most get scrapped when barely middle-aged. I expect my AMG (and many others) to succumb early unless run by real enthusiasts once it starts to chuck big bills at the owner. Or maybe it'll get green-taxed off the face of the earth first.

 

[TVRTASMIN]

My view on carbon emmisions and the hate some people aim at owners of cars with big engines is that everybody should have a carbon allowance.

I know many people who like V6's, V8's and straight sixes. Most only use them for pleasure use so do not cover vast mileage so it is not as bad as your average shopping trolley being used everyday even for uneccessary journeys.

What you tend to find are people who might have a car which doesn't pollute quite as much as a V8 for example but have the central heating on 24hrs with the thermostat set at 25 degrees C.

If we all had a carbon allowance, you could turn the central heating down or off and go for a ride in your 6 litre V8

 

[Birdman]

A 1600cc uncatalysed engine produces more toxic emissions than a Euro-3 compliant engine three times its capacity. So the real polluters are the people who drive elderly uncatalysed vehicles! Not that I particularly like sharing roadspace with the gynormous 4x4 Essex-influenced irrelevancies I see sprouting up all around me like early snowdrops. I rather think medallion man has taken charge at Land Rover, and the rest.

 

[Dieselman]

A 1600cc uncatalysed engine produces more toxic emissions than a Euro-3 compliant engine three times its capacity. So the real polluters are the people who drive elderly uncatalysed vehicles! Not that I particularly like sharing roadspace with the gynormous 4x4 Essex-influenced irrelevancies I see sprouting up all around me like early snowdrops. I rather think medallion man has taken charge at Land Rover, and the rest.

Which pollutants? I bet you don't mean Co2, which I think may be greater froma catalysed engine because that's what it converts the other gasses into. In addition Cats make engines less eficient due to having to run over rich mixtures to feed the cat with unburned fuel.

You probably mean Co gas, which will be in greater quantity from an uncatalysed engine.

 

[Dieselman]

My view on carbon emmisions and the hate some people aim at owners of cars with big engines is that everybody should have a carbon allowance.

I know many people who like V6's, V8's and straight sixes. Most only use them for pleasure use so do not cover vast mileage so it is not as bad as your average shopping trolley being used everyday even for uneccessary journeys.

What you tend to find are people who might have a car which doesn't pollute quite as much as a V8 for example but have the central heating on 24hrs with the thermostat set at 25 degrees C.

If we all had a carbon allowance, you could turn the central heating down or off and go for a ride in your 6 litre V8

The allowance would probably be about 20% of what we use at present. Don't forget vast quantities of the worldwide population produce very little carbon.
You could have a half litre single cylinder TVR.

 

[Dieselman]

If you can find pesky bed-springs on an active Soarer your a better man than I Gunga Din !

http://www.planetsoarer.com/UZZ32/uzz32.html

adam

I can't see from the diagram or write up how the unit acts as a spring. If it's full of oil how can it compress to soak up bumps?

 

[big x]

I can't see from the diagram or write up how the unit acts as a spring. If it's full of oil how can it compress to soak up bumps?

By compression of nitrogen in the top of the strut.The same basic concept as the citroen sphere http://www.actwin.com/toaph/citroen/work/shock.html

adam

 

[Birdman]

Which pollutants? I bet you don't mean Co2, which I think may be greater froma catalysed engine because that's what it converts the other gasses into. In addition Cats make engines less eficient due to having to run over rich mixtures to feed the cat with unburned fuel.

You probably mean Co gas, which will be in greater quantity from an uncatalysed engine.

Well, I was referring to NOx, SOx and carcinogens where public health impacts include both “mild” conditions such as coughing and asthma as well as more serious respiratory and cardiovascular illness.

CO and carcinogenic VOC's health impacts are much less important and they are emitted in such low concentrations that the number of affected people is very low.

 

[Dieselman]

Well, I was referring to NOx, SOx and carcinogens where public health impacts include both “mild” conditions such as coughing and asthma as well as more serious respiratory and cardiovascular illness.

CO and carcinogenic VOC's health impacts are much less important and they are emitted in such low concentrations that the number of affected people is very low.

CO is the deadly gas that kills in confined spaces.

 

[Birdman]

CO is the deadly gas that kills in confined spaces.

Every gas taken in sufficient concentration is deadly, whether or not taken in a confined space.