Well it's how I understood it;
The Auto-Ignition Temperature - or the minimum temperature required to ignite a gas or vapor in air without a spark or flame being present
Now from reading online diesel needs to be at 210 degrees to be at the autoignition temperatures. So the temperature within the cylinder is higher than the auto ignition point of diesel (as there is no spark in a diesel engine). Cylinder temps can be very high (350 degrees in my example)
I was simply using the 350degree figure as an example.
As to whether if you hold a match to diesel, if the match were 350 degrees you'd have died because it would have melted your hand, but yes the theory is that it would ignite.
What I'm trying to say before that I couldn't word until now was that diesel doesn't explode, like a bomb, it burns like a curtain when you light a flame to it. If your 170 TDI engined VW or Audi caught fire it wouldn't be a WHOOOMFMF, it would be steady! Let's see if VW UK will loan me one on a long term test to try and find out for myself.
I have a diesel, Alex - I'm aware it combusts. (and roughly how, enough so when someone starts going on about how it sounds like a tractor I can bore them with details).
When I say burning I mean if you were to take a match to the fuel source...combust is exactly what it means, the awesome bit during a combustion cycle. While technically yes burning is combusting I very much doubt that London Combusting would have been quite as effective as a title.
It's not like petrol (vapour) in which if you have a pot of freshly poured diesel and freshly poured petrol and you hold a flame to each, the diesel will not catch. I know, I've tried. :sadbanana Much to the disappointment of my friends who wanted to see me catch fire. On a summers day in 35 degree of direct sunlight in a black diesel can, I would presume it was near enough 60 degrees inside and it showed no sign of lighting up! Unfortunately as I said..
Diesel fuel requires compression to combust in a car, now I'm not a scientist and I can't be bothered to be, but from reading online the combustion temps in a diesel engine cylinder are more like 350 degrees which is above the autoignition point of diesel which is like 210..
I've heard of probably 5 or 6 people with the injector failures and not one reported smoke from the front of the vehicle or even any fire. Just a load of beeps and dash lights and an engine that won't run or idle.
Now I am not saying it's impossible for that to happen but there would have to be serious complications beyond failing injectors. Most likely electrics related to the injection system melting and catching fire (hey it's a VW it happens). And IF it goes it will 99.99% not be an explosive fire, as in BOOM everyone dead.
Although if it is please let me know so I can salvage some parts.
When I say burning I mean if you were to take a match to the fuel source...combust is exactly what it means, the awesome bit during a combustion cycle. While technically yes burning is combusting I very much doubt that London Combusting would have been quite as effective as a title.
It's not like petrol (vapour) in which if you have a pot of freshly poured diesel and freshly poured petrol and you hold a flame to each, the diesel will not catch. I know, I've tried. :sadbanana Much to the disappointment of my friends who wanted to see me catch fire. On a summers day in 35 degree of direct sunlight in a black diesel can, I would presume it was near enough 60 degrees inside and it showed no sign of lighting up! Unfortunately as I said..
Diesel fuel requires compression to combust in a car, now I'm not a scientist and I can't be bothered to be, but from reading online the combustion temps in a diesel engine cylinder are more like 350 degrees which is above the autoignition point of diesel which is like 210..
I've heard of probably 5 or 6 people with the injector failures and not one reported smoke from the front of the vehicle or even any fire. Just a load of beeps and dash lights and an engine that won't run or idle.
Now I am not saying it's impossible for that to happen but there would have to be serious complications beyond failing injectors. Most likely electrics related to the injection system melting and catching fire (hey it's a VW it happens). And IF it goes it will 99.99% not be an explosive fire, as in BOOM everyone dead.
Although if it is please let me know so I can salvage some parts.
Not bad. Looks like a police bike, those viffers weren't too bad 
It's called a dying enterprise. but yes, Bose has the right idea.
Only saying what I read! But I agree with Jake, you won't get a fire (as in an explosive fire) in a diesel. The most likely thing to catch fire would be a joint such as a siezed C.V joint, read it happened to some guy while driving down the motorway!
If you set fire to a diesel engine it will burn but it won't combust, if that makes sense.
I'll own a scirocco before it's released in LFS. I've already got a Golf Mk5 which is the same platform...
I drove a Scirocco.
Problem? :>
I drove a Scirocco.
Problem? :>
The reason I was aware of the recall being placed was that it was because the engine can cut out leaving people stranded; no risk of fire was mentioned.
Yeah the injectors on the TDI 170 models can be faulty.
Trust me standing there singing Rick Astley or saying "Y U NO LIKE THAT" while proceeding to pull the face of the "y u no" guy gets you some strange looks...
Because talking takes effort and you can't use meme's or smiley faces in conversation in RL.
Alex did you hear about when BMW did the "goodwill recall" on the E46 M3 engines that would suffer from oil starvation? Bet that cost them millions!
So by your logic, you're saying that if you're in some fancy restaurant and a cook brings out your meal of exotic fish and pasta and it's all messed up, poorly cooked, you're not allowed to criticize because you can't cook exotic fish?
Again by your logic, imagine you bought a house, and the roof falls off. Because you can't build a house yourself you're not allowed to criticize?
The delusions of an older generation, no offence.
Again by your logic, imagine you bought a house, and the roof falls off. Because you can't build a house yourself you're not allowed to criticize?
The delusions of an older generation, no offence.
yes they will and do
http://uk-mkvis.net/forums/p/346760/2349542.aspx
http://uk-mkvs.net/forums/p/441661/3022937.aspx
http://www.vweosclub.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4134
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/fo ... n=printpage;topic=28142.0
2 minutes of googling. Plenty other cases out there!
It was you were mistaken it was a test patch Z24 i think!!!
No mr bond I expect you to die.
didn't know your mum liked you enough to buy you a present.
hahah
The good thing with LFS is that while there is the "master server" all of the usable servers are privately hosted. I'm not sure of bandwidth usage but in the grand scheme of things, bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper and the adverts from articles online (although thankfully there is a lack of advertisements on the forum and website normally) will generate a small amount of revenue.
Many of us have found better sims, I have..c.a.r.s and GT5. There is no "perfect" simulation out there, you need to find a balance across everything, physics, features and graphics and GT5 and cars does it, on balance, better than LFS. LFS is good but not good enough in 2011.
You are a "fanboy" in the exact term of the word; blind and ignorant faith. You're like a religious nut... THERE IS A GOD, THERE IS A GOD!! HE'S SO KIND NEVER KILLS ANYONE...oh look a volcanic eruption.
no bread this early im afraid.
The good thing with LFS is that while there is the "master server" all of the usable servers are privately hosted. I'm not sure of bandwidth usage but in the grand scheme of things, bandwidth is getting cheaper and cheaper and the adverts from articles online (although thankfully there is a lack of advertisements on the forum and website normally) will generate a small amount of revenue.
Many of us have found better sims, I have..c.a.r.s and GT5. There is no "perfect" simulation out there, you need to find a balance across everything, physics, features and graphics and GT5 and cars does it, on balance, better than LFS. LFS is good but not good enough in 2011.
You are a "fanboy" in the exact term of the word; blind and ignorant faith. You're like a religious nut... THERE IS A GOD, THERE IS A GOD!! HE'S SO KIND NEVER KILLS ANYONE...oh look a volcanic eruption.
no bread this early im afraid.
go back to the kitchen woman.
on a serious note you are exactly the kind of moron that sits there saying "THEY WILL COME BACK" when your friends have walked off in search of food when actually they're dead in a ditch.
4 minute video.
My comment does not affect video length. I simply said that a video of a given size could be made into a smaller given size when using the editing program that I do.
Shadowwwwww I'd expect you to have known this.
My comment does not affect video length. I simply said that a video of a given size could be made into a smaller given size when using the editing program that I do.
Shadowwwwww I'd expect you to have known this.
Surprised dustin didn't rotate his picture what a bender.
Another quality of the iDevice which doesn't intelligently rotate pictures on it's memory card.
Another quality of the iDevice which doesn't intelligently rotate pictures on it's memory card.
Image tags.
Well I downloaded Cyberlink power director, has very good production options in there regarding sizes, formats, etc.
Could give me a 450mb 720p video in 18mb if I wanted. Not sure of quality but yeah!
Could give me a 450mb 720p video in 18mb if I wanted. Not sure of quality but yeah!
oh my god you rich middle class person.
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