1st Diesel car - avoid supermarket fuel?

motorguy

bod1467 wrote: »

I've never used it, but I did read the instructions online. As below as I recall ...

You put a small amount (approx 50ml - the 500ml bottle dispenses one "shot" at a go) into the near-empty tank right before you fill up. The ratio is 1:1000, so 50ml per 50l fill up.

Yes, its a small measured "shot" per fill. The container is shaped to do this for you.

motorguy

Iceweasel wrote: »

The problem with Millers and most other additives is the smell of the stuff.

If you get it on your hands, or if a small drip runs down the side of the bottle, then the smell lingers on for hours, despite thorough hand-washing.

I used to use it when I used supermarket diesel and Mrs Iceweasel eventually banned it - :mad: - despite taking great care , having the bottle in the boot tainted everything.

Yes its smelly, however i keep it in the garage and add it to the fuel when i get home, and i'm carefuly with any drips. Never had smelly hand yet. :beer:

The octane booster i use in the 370z doesnt smell so just goes in the boot of the car and is added at the pump

Londoner_1

Consensus is pre 2006 diesels are ok with supermarket derv, new diesels are really sensitive with fuel and I would avoid supermarket stuff.

But then again after driving diesels for 6 years i've gone back to petrol.

RichardD1970

Londoner_1 wrote: »

Consensus is pre 2006 diesels are ok with supermarket derv, new diesels are really sensitive with fuel and I would avoid supermarket stuff.

But then again after driving diesels for 6 years i've gone back to petrol.

Consensus of who? Mine is an 08 and has no problems.

motorguy

Londoner_1 wrote: »

Consensus is pre 2006 diesels are ok with supermarket derv, new diesels are really sensitive with fuel and I would avoid supermarket stuff.

But then again after driving diesels for 6 years i've gone back to petrol.

I'd like to see that consensus?

I'd a 2012 Golf diesel and it ran @ 25,000 miles a year for 18 months on supermarket fuel, not a problem.

Also, it averaged over 65mpg measured brim to brim over the entire duration (spreadsheets with all the details), with the best being a fill averaging fractionally over 70mpg.

ariba10

We had a refinery cose to where we live (Closed now) and all different Road Tankers would come in to be filled --- All from the same tank!

Stoke

gilbert_and_sullivan wrote: »

With that engine fuel isn't the real problem but leaving engine oil in for too long is.
Forget the joke service schedule, change the engine oil with good quality full synthetic of the correct grade every year without fail, or half the recommended mileage whichever comes first.

The better fuels do have more goodies added, but a dash of Millers Diesel fuel additive should do the same job with standard fuels and at less overall cost...other snake oil if you feel this is so are available.

Not sure I agree with this either.

Marktheshark

Here is the Money saving angle.
Put the cheapest in, it all comes from Lindsey refinery.
Add up what the extra snake oil fuel would cost and put this money in to a savings account.
When the DMF conks out use the snake oil money to have it fixed.

jase1

A car which has any kind of engine failure within a reasonable lifespan window (at least 150K) is a crap design as far as I am concerned.

This shouldn't even be a topic of conversation. If the engines are incapable of running on fuel that meets the appropriate standards, that engine is unfit for purpose. End of story.

Shrimply

jase1 wrote: »

A car which has any kind of engine failure within a reasonable lifespan window (at least 150K) is a crap design as far as I am concerned.

This shouldn't even be a topic of conversation. If the engines are incapable of running on fuel that meets the appropriate standards, that engine is unfit for purpose. End of story.

Seems very backward. Surely appropriate standards should be updated to suit the current market. You would like to stop development of new, more efficient engines for a worldwide market because of the standards set in the UK for fuel.