asda diesel freezing? compensation??

PsiDOC

Warehouse.
The your estimation is abut right. In our place it's approximately 4 - 5 days from rundown to loading.
Psi

callistris

Using this will also stop gelling of diesel plus it has many other benefits too for your fuel system and unlike other additives can be used all year round:D

http://www.stanadyne.com/view.php?id=45

Hammyman

warehouse wrote: »

Thanks for the original post Psi, most informative.

The one I quoted above, I have a question for you. If the body you speak of DID see a cold snap coming and acted as soon as they knew, how long would it take to get the treated diesel into an average family car. Taking a novices guess, I'd have to estimate at least a week?

It'd take me over a month this month as I've not gone far and I can do 650 miles on a tank.

Ranger8

Don`t put any petrol at all in modern diesel engines, its an old trick for old diesels.

Pew_Pew_Pew_Lasers!

No, its a trick for old fuels. Refineries at this time of year use a winter mixture which helps to stop diesel from waxing up. Hence lower mpg.

gilbert_and_sullivan

Nice try by the mechs to get a tankful of good fuel free for their Diesel cars by the way.

It's been 30 years since i've experienced DERV waxing up, and i doubt that it's the cause this time or there'd be hundreds of cars puttering to a halt at the roadside by now in your area.

Try getting the car into the warm for a night and then replace the fuel filter if it's been in some time, if not do open the drain tap, drain and reprime system, it might be a bit of water in the fuel filter housing icing up, and a night in the warm will see the fuel running free again in the unlikely possibility it is the fuel.

taker920

I alwys pop a dose of Millers in every other fill up at Shell, it's added a long term average of 3mpg and makes the idle far smoother. I was always sceptical of additives, but Millers gets good reports whenever I read up on it.

Just don't get it on your hands as the smell takes ages to go!

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dannymccann

Are you absolutely sure it was diesel fuel gelling up that was the problem? My Astra diesel is run on Morrisons diesel and is left out in the brunt of the cold on the drive every night, it was -13c on the way to work yesterday morning so can only imagine it was colder during the night and Ive not had any problems...

spanner16

Can anybody point me in the direction of a site that shows how supermarket fuel is any different to any other fuel? AIUI no test has been able to show this and it all comes out of the same storage tanks albeit from different refineries

pstuart

spanner16 wrote: »

Can anybody point me in the direction of a site that shows how supermarket fuel is any different to any other fuel? AIUI no test has been able to show this and it all comes out of the same storage tanks albeit from different refineries

Google it - there are many!

However, our Mondeo has been left outside for a week with about 2 gall of Asda derv in it ( bought 4 weeks ago).

-5 when we got in it after it de iced itself this morning, fired up first time.

On reading all the forums about diesel and the new Ford engines, I shall try to keep to Shell (which is my cheapest local anyway).