How The Fap Has Failed

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Peugeot's award-winning FAP particulate filter is not the key to the acceptance of diesel engines that its maker had hoped.

 

 

The new Peugeot 307, which goes on sale on 1 June, will have a choice of three diesel engines but only one, the 110bhp 2.0-litre Dturbo model, has the FAP filter. Plans to use this technology for all Peugeot diesels have been put on hold. The particulate filter system was introduced with a great fanfare in 1999. It removes the main environmental objection to diesels - the fine particles of soot in exhaust smoke. As leader of the diesel car market in the UK, Peugeot sought exemption from the tax penalties applied to diesels - VED and the forthcoming CO2 benefit-in-kind rules for company car drivers. Government officials rejected their case because the FAP-equipped engines produce slightly more of another pollutant - oxides of nitrogen (NOx) - than the normal diesel. Peugeot engineers say that the NOx can be controlled by fine tuning the engine but that will result in more carbon particles, which will reduce the service life of the filter unit. There is already a question of how best to handle cleaning the unit at 50,000 miles, when the tank of fuel additive that the system requires needs to be replenished. Peugeot recognises that this increases the vehicle's whole-life costs. The government has not responded positively and Peugeot has not licensed the technology to other car makers.

 

I would remove the filter knowing the above and save money