How long have you worked on diesels in order to be able to claim that?
How many cases of diesel engines with injector problems have you had during your career as a mechanic?
How much does, on the average, a diesel injector cost?
How often do they have to be replaced?
I've worked on diesel engines since I was a little kid, and have yet to work on one with injector problems.
The following are ultramodern mazda injectors, for instance; if you look at the spray pattern and the capability of these programmable injectors, it's pretty obvious it's going to be tough for them to experience problems:
modern piezoelectric technology is wonderful, isn't it? And wouldn't you know it, all modern diesel engines sport piezoelectric injectors.
But let's suppose for a moment that you are correct, and that I'm wrong. Your logic has one flaw, and that is that in a diesel engine, I will (and have) get three times the kilometrage that you will get with a gasoline engine. Even if I had to replace all of the injectors, I will still have come out ahead. How?
Assuming that you are running the simplest, ultramodern gasoline V8 (I picked V8 in particular because that is the most reliable of the gasoline engines), if you maintain it according to the extreme maintenance schedule, you might get about 460,000 km out of it before requiring a rebuild. By that time, I will have gotten almost 1,300,000 km on the diesel and maybe need an engine rebuild, and that engine rebuild might not even need new injectors, if I changed my fuel filter every 15,000 km (which I do), and every 30,000 km added one liter of biodiesel to my tank!
How many cases of diesel engines with injector problems have you had during your career as a mechanic?
How much does, on the average, a diesel injector cost?
How often do they have to be replaced?
I've worked on diesel engines since I was a little kid, and have yet to work on one with injector problems.
The following are ultramodern mazda injectors, for instance; if you look at the spray pattern and the capability of these programmable injectors, it's pretty obvious it's going to be tough for them to experience problems:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDFgiLrEX1o
modern piezoelectric technology is wonderful, isn't it? And wouldn't you know it, all modern diesel engines sport piezoelectric injectors.
But let's suppose for a moment that you are correct, and that I'm wrong. Your logic has one flaw, and that is that in a diesel engine, I will (and have) get three times the kilometrage that you will get with a gasoline engine. Even if I had to replace all of the injectors, I will still have come out ahead. How?
Assuming that you are running the simplest, ultramodern gasoline V8 (I picked V8 in particular because that is the most reliable of the gasoline engines), if you maintain it according to the extreme maintenance schedule, you might get about 460,000 km out of it before requiring a rebuild. By that time, I will have gotten almost 1,300,000 km on the diesel and maybe need an engine rebuild, and that engine rebuild might not even need new injectors, if I changed my fuel filter every 15,000 km (which I do), and every 30,000 km added one liter of biodiesel to my tank!