The diesel particulate filter (DPF) has continued to improve over its 15-year existence. So have other components of aftertreatment systems (ATS) that help send cleaner exhaust through the DPF.

We are planning to change my wife’s Toyota Rav4 for a Nissan Qashqai, but the only automatic version has a 1.6 diesel engine. I think I recall that when Nissan introduced the 1.6 diesel on the old ...

Owners of diesel trucks are likely to seek methods of increasing performance and fuel economy and most probably may discover a bottleneck with the Diesel Particulate Filter (DPF). The DPF is important ...

The fuel and exhaust systems inside diesel engines work closely together. As a result, fuel and exhaust-related issues can be some of the most difficult to diagnose: A symptom in one system can often ...

This story appears in the May 27 print edition of Transport Topics. Retrofits of diesel particulate filters onto older vehicles that never had them will take a jump in 2014, when California’s rule ...

There are quite a few reports of problems with the dpf clogging on the latest 2.8-litre diesel, but a Toyota spokesman told us there is currently no service campaign or recall related to the Diesel ...

I was quite tempted in buying a 185 2.2 diesel engined Mazda 3 as I fancied something with a bit more power than my 1.6 crdi Hyundai i30. Do these suffer with diesel being dumped in the oil sump by ...

In this BS6 era, diesel cars run cleaner, they are more technologically advanced, and at the same time are more complex than ...

The L5P Duramax diesel V8 is what powers heavy-duty work trucks like the 2025 Chevy Silverado 2500 HD and is an amazing powerhouse. It didn't exactly start off that way back in 1984 when GM first ...