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Owners of the new crop of clean diesels demise have one more maintenance in like manner to concern themselves with if their new cars are equipped with urea injection. The EPA requires that all diesels meet strict new emissions standards, which almost always requires the exercise of either a NOx trap or urea injection. To ensure that the system is in operation, a sensor checks both the level and the quality of the urea solution and will keep the car from starting if the tank is flow. The new VW Jetta TDI doesn’t use urea, but the new Mercedes-Benz BlueTEC vehicles do. According to Mercedes, a calculator will appear on the dash when in that place are twenty starts remaining. If the driver ignores the message, the car will not operate until at least two gallons of urea solution is added to the tamper-proof tank that resides in the grant tire well.

Engineers consider designed the urea tanks to be large enough to last about 15,000 miles. This should have being copious enough that drivers never run out, as the tanks will be checked at every schedules service. As an alternative, small bottles of the urea solution will be available for owners who want to maintain the system themselves. The cost of the urea solution, which MB refers to as AdBlue, resoluteness mirror the cost of diesel fuel, so a refill shouldn’t cost more than $30 or thus. Before anybody asks, yea - urea is a element of urine, and no - peeing in the tank will not fool the sensors. You’ve been warned.

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