That tells you how bad supermarket fuel is. My Octavia hated the stuff so always stuck with Shell and a splash of Millers monthly. It was a PD engine but I wouldn't add it to the newer engines.

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Diesel is diesel, petrol is petrol. It's only the additives which are different.

Diesel v power doesn't have some of the lubrication you get with regular diesel, so ideally when you fill up a fast diesel engine

A regular tank of fuel now and again is pretty good for your engine!!

Petrols are ok to run on vpower all of the time .. Because it gives the correct amount of lubrication and additives

And extra added additive can cause pinking of the cylinders and pistons in a petrol which means too high burn temperature !!

And in diesels you get heavy coking and soot deposits!

Diesel is diesel, petrol is petrol. It's only the additives which are different.

Not 100% accurate concerning diesel from what i can make out. V Power diesel is a blend of conventional diesel and synthetic diesel. Synthetic diesel having a lower calorific value, but being cleaner burning. Ive also heard (not sure how true it is, but source is reliable), that normal diesel is part bio diesel, and if you leave the car for a long time (say 3 months), the bio diesel can seperate from the crude derived diesel, causing problems when you next go and start.

VPower diesel supposedly doesnt suffer from this problem.

 

Oh, and the different petrols may well be all the same except for additives, but those additives usually do a job. In the case of VPower, a job that can be seen by the naked eye.

Edited 14 January, 201412 yr by JungleJames

I've got a 2011 CR, had it serviced twice at a main dealers, both times I had offered and had a diesel injection clean, simply a fuel additive added to the tank.

Dealers must use different additives!!

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Juan

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Not 100% accurate concerning diesel from what i can make out. V Power diesel is a blend of conventional diesel and synthetic diesel. Synthetic diesel having a lower calorific value, but being cleaner burning. Ive also heard (not sure how true it is, but source is reliable), that normal diesel is part bio diesel, and if you leave the car for a long time (say 3 months), the bio diesel can seperate from the crude derived diesel, causing problems when you next go and start.

VPower diesel supposedly doesnt suffer from this problem.

Oh, and the different petrols may well be all the same except for additives, but those additives usually do a job. In the case of VPower, a job that can be seen by the naked eye.

ALL FUEL has been required to have bio fuel in it for a number of years - including v power

ALL FUEL has been required to have bio fuel in it for a number of years - including v power

Well i did say it was something id heard.

Still, for some reason it isnt causing a problem when the tank has VPower in it

ALL FUEL has been required to have bio fuel in it for a number of years - including v power

 

As gadgetman has said all diesel has bio diesel in it and has to comply to EN950, which means it has to contain 5% Bio diesel.

 

Before EN950 diesel had to have 3% Bio diesel in it, when EN950 was first brought in there were signs on pumps warning drivers of the change because older diesels could not cope with the higher level of Bio diesel.

Just run Vpower etc through every so often.

Edit

 

bit further of topic.

 

http://www.rac.co.uk/press-centre/press-releases/diesel-biofuel-content-suspected-cause-of-unexpect/

Edited 14 January, 201412 yr by Dempsek