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Mikemoss

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).

DABurleigh

http://www.motorhomefacts.com/ftopicp-76634.html#76634

homenaway

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 Laughing

but at our local Total garage it's been 109.9 a litre for the last two weeks Crying or Very sad

haven't tried any other brands

Steve

lindyloot

Hi Mikemoss

lindyloot

Hi Mikemoss

Mikemoss

Thanks everyone - food for thought here. I think I'll give it a whirl, choosing the additive carefully on the basis of the recommendations here.

murrayxxx77

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.

dazid1

I have found PEAK that is quite new to the market, to be even better than Forte.