Mercedes has been using urea in their modern diesel engines for a while. It
reacts with the exhaust gas to reduce NOx emissions that are produced
because the engine is set very lean to reduce particulate emissions (the
diesel smoke most of us remember).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_exhaust_fluid

And for those who made the word association, one is a component of the other
but you can't just pee into your urea tank & expect it to work.

Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Jim Felder
Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2013 6:17 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Early Friday Post--don't open until September 6

Shows how modern I am. I have heard of the chemical urea, but had no idea it
had any use in a diesel engine.

Jim

On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 6:01 PM, Scott Daniel
<scottdaniel@turbovans.com>wrote:

>  You are not familiar with Urea , a liquid  that most modern US model
> diesel cars and light trucks need these days ?
> Did you google it ?
> Might learn readily by doing that.
>
> Chevagon ?
>
>
>  On 9/5/2013 3:49 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>
> I will be traveling from early until late tomorrow, but I just have to
> have input on this matter ASAP!
>
> I'm looking at a mailer that Chevrolet sent me advertising a Chevy
> Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel, and the brochure compares it favorably (of
> course) with a VW TDI.
>
> But here's the part that gets me:
>
> In the section that explains Chevy's 2-Year Schedule Maintenance
> Program, there's this entry under the "free" category:
>
> "Diesel Exhaust Fluid Refills"
>
> Huh? Is this to be filed with Johnson Rods and Overhead Muffler
> Bearing pranks? What is a "Diesel Exhaust Fluid Refill," and what
> exactly is Diesel Exhaust Fluid?
>
> Anxious to find out what my Diesel Westy is missing,
>
> Jim
>
> PS What a Vanagon conversion this Chevy engine would make if it is any
> good! I have heard nothing but good from people I know who have driven
them.
>
>
>
>