As I keep trying to tell you the predominant diesel rattle noise is pretty much gone on modern cars. The only tell tale sign most of the time is the TDCI or whatever variant of badge a manufacturer puts on the back of a car, walk past diesel or petrol versions of the same car and you are unlikely to hear any difference.
And as I keep telling you
I most definitely hear the difference between a diesel and a petrol. I honestly don't have to looks at the back of it. I'm surrounded by the things and some are super refined and lovely to drive, but you can clear hear that a diesel is a diesel. You can tell it another 100 times, my ears don't tell me anything different.
Shame you can't recognise the difference between the front end of a mk2 Focus and the rear end of a mk3 Focus. Not really worth providing videos unless the cars are recorded from the same end as any diesel clatter noise that maybe present doesn't come out of the exhaust. Also there is nothing to say that what ever is causing the weird noise on the diesel video, isn't also causing the clatter to be louder than normal. My old Mondeo certainly never produced that much clatter noise and I have stood next to diesel engines started up in test cells, so no confines of an engine bay to soak up the noise and they still don't make as much noise as that.
Yup - funnily enough not many people post videos of the noise of a diesel
It was all I could find. 
It's only since direct injection diesels were introduced that the noise has significantly been reduced. Originally fuel was injected into a inlet manifold, the fuel sucked into the combustion chamber and compressed at which point it ignites. With direct injection, multiple but much smaller amounts of fuel are injected into a pre combustion chamber or a combustion chamber in the piston itself. This allows for a more controlled combustion over a greater length of time. this means a more linear constant push on the piston which is what reduces the combustion noise or rattle. Hence my comment about modern diesels sounding noisy due to injectors over fuelling from poor calibration/mapping or just being worn. As further advances are made in this as well as balancing shafts and dmfs being applied the noise is gradually being erased. As for rental cars rattling, many people who aren't used to driving diesels have a habit of stalling them by trying to pull away in the wrong gear, this doesn't really do the dmf any favours, it starts to wear, it's balancing properties diminish meaning the combustion cycle smoothness diminishes and the rattle noise increases.Yup - funnily enough not many people post videos of the noise of a diesel
Diesel engines weren't mainly used in vans since I'd say the late eighties. Yes sure the UK ran behind the rest of Europe big time on the diesel front, and somehow totally switch to preferring diesel since the early 2000's. Its not a new phenomena at all. I've had a fair few in them old days like the maginificent Mercedes 300D, the utterly brilliant game changer BMW 525TDS, my first VW Golf 1.9TDI Stop/Start in the mid-nineties, to the Peugeot 1.9TD, and then the current generations of theBMW 320d, thepowerful 535d, X5 5.0d and the oh so smooth and refined Mercedes 350cdi bluetec.All exhibiting diesel clatter including the Mondeo's, Vauxhall's and Renaults I've had a rental cars.
Modern cars are taking all the fun out of driving, trying to think for us. Now even wanting to drive the car for us
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How do you know you were dazzling the oncoming driver? Even on main beam the light pattern only shines so high and so far. I'd have thought the sensitivity of your sensor would be able to determine whether your car was within dazzling distance of the oncoming driver and adjust it's beam in good time whilst still providing you with a clear view of the road ahead for as long as possible.
I have noticed on our Galaxy, even on high beam, it does not seem very bright. Loved the high beam on our old Volvo, lit up a dark country road really well. Lights on our Galaxy are poop.
Indeed it's not like they haven't spend many many millions just testing these systems.
I think it is much more likely that they were purely providing you a pre-emptive flash just like you are used to doing
In that case I'd be even more surprised that the lights were dazzling them.
How the hell did we ever manage to park without that aid? ....
Oh wait a minute I don't have one and can still park in the smallest of gaps
Clue being in the smallest of spaces
In the army I used to have a guide walking out or behind to aid the parking in closest of spaces in between the trees in the forestHow the hell did we ever manage to park without that aid? ....
Oh wait a minute I don't have one and can still park in the smallest of gaps
Clue being in the smallest of spaces
You know the kind where in the olden days you had someone guide you in to get you really close. Or like when you were off-roading you would get out and walk in the mud to check you are still ok; my 360 degree camera system is brilliant to keep my feet dry.
Just because you have tiny little French cars and are mister perfect doesn't mean others have to be like you.
Well I'm man enough to admit I cannot get a vehicle in every single space without assistance. So there...
Yes. All drivers worth their salt can see round corners and through steel and plastic.
Easy that is me, unless you get LGV or HGV's in the mixOh gawd.. here we go, new phase of argument about to start.. Who's got the biggest substitute for the smallest ____?
LOL I think you find that the vast majority can, but as was stated it gets different in the closest of spaces
Didn't think that would such a hard concept that a camera makes it easier than having to exit the vehicle to see if you are close enough already.
Yep some people just cannot judge widths either
Artics are are surprisingly manoeuvrable, especially going backwards.Easy that is me, unless you get LGV or HGV's in the mix
That'll be meWho's got the biggest substitute for the smallest ____?
Who's got the biggest substitute for the smallest ____?
Perhaps they just don't trust the car coming the opposite direction. I can judge a tight gap and carry on, but If I don't like the way the oncoming car is positioned and they aren't likely to give room, I'll let them go.
Or those that just dither about, shall I go, shan't I go? by the time they "Go" its far late, risking themselves and the driver that they pulled out on.
Does it really matter, stopping or slowing it can be harder to judge a gap with an oncoming vehicle especially if you're not sure if the other motorist is going to give you much room. I've come across plenty of gaps where there is room for two vehicles to pass only for the oncoming driver to take up way too much room even to the extent of driving straight towards me on my side of the road with no intent to move over.
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I know you have said in the past your wife is disabled but is this a Motability Contract Hire vehicle? If not why are you paying for RAC cover when you have a years Ford Roadside Assistance for free? http://www.ford.co.uk/BuyingandprotectingyourFord/RoadsideAssistanceBloody modern cars, and their technology. Yes some good points, but there again..
Going out shopping this morning, and there is no power in our Galaxy. Press button on key fobs, and nothing. Trying to get into the car, with the silly skinny key, and the door lock cover was a pain.
Finally got into the car and no power anywhere, no interior lights either. Looks like a job for the RAC.
Having a Coffee , while I wait
