On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 22:59:31 -0500, Larry wrote:

What about my diesel cars that hardly ever leave the city? I've never seen
this phenomenon while sitting in the traffic for hours on end, idling along
to the next traffic light.....??

Maybe it isn't as serious as it's imagined.....??

The problem as I understand it, is particularly acute for turbo
engines. If the turbo does not get spun up to speed and temperature
on a fairly regular basis, it will carbon up and require big $$$s to
fix. When I was shopping for a new diesel genset 2 years ago I
avoided all turbo engine options for exactly that reason.

In a diesel car, particularly an underpowered car like a Mercedes 220,
you will almost surely do enough hard accelerating to avoid wet
stacking.