I agree the the D part of DCJ has done diesel, but I'm not sure that I would go so far to say that the C or J part have had that same experience. And with D buying CJ and the merge going over many rocks, I would not be willing to say that the diesel experience conveyed. The designers of the CRD did not seem to have insights into the torsion issuses with a 4 cylinder diesel of this capability and the reinforcements needed in a TC.
sbohner wrote:
The timed nuetering to protect the failing torque converter (TC) betrays DCJs ignorance of diesel production vehicles by their use of a TC designed for petrol engines.
DC makes diesel products all over the world and has for years. They have lots of experience in this area, including in the Liberty which has had a CRD version outside the US almost since its inception.
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Further evidence of the performance degrade is the changing of the EPA MPG numbers. This is evidence of the detune as with the change in the setup, they were required to update the EPA data.
Every manufacturer was required to update their data on all models. This had nothing to do with changes to the models, this had to do with the fact that the EPA changed their methodology. Go to fueleconomy.gov and you can find 06 and earlier estimages as well as most of the older vehicles with the new 07 and later style estimates.
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