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Spotted a row of tantalisingly shaped bottles of assorted diesel fuel/luboil additives in Halfords today and wondered if it was time to give Bessie a winter tonic - or would I be wasting my money?
It's a Fiat 2.5td with 78,000 miles on it that would be getting the treatment, but as this is my first-ever diesel-engined vehicle I've no idea whether things like injector cleaners and the various other snakeoil-type potions that you're supposed to pour into the fuel tank are actually going to do any good. Or just wast ~£15 of my hard-earned cash.
Any comments from anyone who has used any of these, please? Which are the good ones, or are they all equally useless (like the Holts 'instant engine tune-up' I once poured into an old Mini, to be rewarded by clouds of pungent smoke and an engine that was a pig to start again).
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I use Redex diesel injector cleaner (in a blue bottle and cheaper from Wilkos!) - about one dose every couple of months in a tankful of fuel and a blast down the motorway for ten miles or so just before the MOT gets it through (67,000miles on the clock).
I sense it runs better for a while then I feel it runs even better in France on their fuel as well
but at our local Total garage it's been 109.9 a litre for the last two weeks
haven't tried any other brands
Steve
______________________________________________________________ Steve & Sheila
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Spotted a row of tantalisingly shaped bottles of assorted diesel fuel/luboil additives in Halfords today and wondered if it was time to give Bessie a winter tonic - or would I be wasting my money?
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Spotted a row of tantalisingly shaped bottles of assorted diesel fuel/luboil additives in Halfords today and wondered if it was time to give Bessie a winter tonic - or would I be wasting my money?
Diesel additives are designed to add a lubricant to the fuel to lubricate injection and high pressure pumps, because they are removing the sulphur in fuel which is a lubricant. We have had no end of problems with the common rail system being used , of high pressure pump failure due to premature wearing out due to lubrication. We run a 2.8JTD and always use additives. We use the ones made for the motor trade use made by Forte . There are so many on the market. Don't, buy from Halfords, go to your local Motor factor and buy Wynns Professional Diesel or petrol fuel additive. We know the additives work, having vehicles fail an MOT on smoke emissions , then adding some directly to the fuel filter and what's left put in the tank, they fly through the emissions test. The dearest you should pay should be no more than about £ 8.50.
Rich
______________________________________________________________ Rich and Lin
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Spotted a row of tantalisingly shaped bottles of assorted diesel fuel/luboil additives in Halfords today and wondered if it was time to give Bessie a winter tonic - or would I be wasting my money?
Diesel additives are designed to add a lubricant to the fuel to lubricate injection and high pressure pumps, because they are removing the sulphur in fuel which is a lubricant. We have had no end of problems with the common rail system being used , of high pressure pump failure due to premature wearing out due to no lubrication. We run a 2.8JTD and always use additives. We use the ones made for the motor trade use made by Forte . There are so many on the market. Don't, buy from Halfords, go to your local Motor factor and buy Wynns Professional Diesel or petrol fuel additive. We know the additives work, having vehicles fail an MOT on smoke emissions , then adding some directly to the fuel filter and what's left put in the tank, they fly through the emissions test. The dearest you should pay should be no more than about £ 8.50.
Rich
______________________________________________________________ Rich and Lin
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I had a LandRover 200Tdi that had over 200,000 miles on the clock when I sold it. I always used Millers Diesel Plus and the engine ran sweet as a nut.
Used it on our VW T4 diesel camper before it was stolen ... grrrr ... and you could tell the difference in smoothness, mpg and starting.
Honest John in the Telegraph is always recommending it and in independent tests it beats the competition hands down.
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