D3 vs D5 - Direct comparison

[Daleman]

Originally Posted by wimorrison

Out of interest was you last car a diesel?

Many people coming from petrol engines think diesels 'rev' too low, but that is the intrinsic benefit of the diesel - it has the torque at much lower revs than the petrol engine

Hi wimorrison , my last car was petrol Mercedes and I realize that diesels are lower revving but I am often finding myself trickling along at 50mph with 1500 revs on and that seems to low to me .

I wonder if the exhaust gets hot enough to even carry out the regeneration if its running low revs and cool.

I am wondering Is it not the low mileage trips and possible resultant cool running that causes that oil increase problem with those having the problem.