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888, do you know much about urea injection? It's my understanding cars without it have to run heavier egr as it's my understanding. If that's the case I would think our motors might experience the same issues but take longer to gunk up. What's your thoughts on this?

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The Cruze's use of SCR (the system that uses DEF) theoretically should make this less of an issue. Both EGR and SCR work to accomplish the same task of reducing NOx emissions. VW tried to get around having to use DEF by relying more on the EGR and subsequently encountered the problems of more intake clogging and worse DPF performance since the engine has to run richer and use EGR more which creates more soot.

By using SCR, the Cruze should rely a lot less on the EGR putting less strain on the intake system and the DPF. Only time will tell.



Diesel, many congrats on your experience so far; excellent write-up. Here's to the next 50,000 miles.

Thanks! That answers my uncertainty above!

 

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Congrats on the milestone,

We just turned 25k on ours. 90% HWY 10% city we have a lifetime average of 44 MPG. Only issue we had was the steering gear had to be replaced due to the notchy issue that has plagued the gas ones.

Yeah I'm curious, I haven't taken my car to the dealer because there doesn't seem to be a solution that actually works.

 

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I personally think it's software related

 

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diesel


Any service for the ATF dome or required. I did not see a maintenance schedule for the ATF fluid change interval.

Transmission is listed as a lifetime fill but lifetime to GM is 100k. I'm going to do routine drains and refills. You get 1/3 out each one.