bio diesel woes?

dieseldoggy · Post by **dieseldoggy** » 26 May 2009, 02:32

I haven't seen on here about it? Been told not to put bio diesel/WVO in an HDi or common rail diesel. and i know some people still try.
Also if you run on it heard on grapevine? and found out that heater plugs burn out alot quicker! as last year put new ones in beru ones and just had to replace them as some gone right through.

Mayb're a sticky post?

davetherave · Post by **davetherave** » 26 May 2009, 10:38

I have heard of some running a twin tank system on hdi's but certainly not something i would ever try! Il stick to the good old IDI!! itll run off anything with an octane value.

XantiaMan · Post by **XantiaMan** » 26 May 2009, 10:59

davetherave wrote:I have heard of some running a twin tank system on hdi's but certainly not something i would ever try! Il stick to the good old IDI!! itll run off anything with an octane value.

You mean a cetane value

davetherave · Post by **davetherave** » 26 May 2009, 11:13

Octane or cetane both have gone through nicely (obviously not 100% petrol though!)

dieseldoggy · Post by **dieseldoggy** » 26 May 2009, 11:46

On the 2.2's they have an add mix.bit like add-blue on trucks!.in another small tank which you don't fill comes from manufacture for life of car? give an amount each time you fill up.sensor in fuel cap.which expects you to fill car up from empty each time? not drips&drabs!.that's stuffed it then with lot's putting five&tenner's in?.it's something to do with fat burner in exhaust etc. Good old technologly works great in lab&pc? but falls flat on it's face in the real world!

h2ocooler · Post by **h2ocooler** » 26 May 2009, 13:41

dieseldoggy wrote:On the 2.2's they have an add mix.bit like add-blue on trucks!.in another small tank which you don't fill comes from manufacture for life of car? give an amount each time you fill up.sensor in fuel cap.which expects you to fill car up from empty each time? not drips&drabs!.that's stuffed it then with lot's putting five&tenner's in?.it's something to do with fat burner in exhaust etc. Good old technologly works great in lab&pc? but falls flat on it's face in the real world!

If you mean the Eolys addative it is not filled for life, part of the service is to fill it at required intervals, you can buy the fluid from main stealers.
Read somewhere it uses the fuel guage to determine the amount of fuel added and doses accordingly
Rob

MikeT · Post by **MikeT** » 26 May 2009, 15:21

dieseldoggy wrote:I haven't seen on here about it?

Ooo, there are many posts discussing the pro's n con's and the do's n dont's. I think one of them was made a sticky and/or placed in the handy hints section but you do need to search to find them.

It's the first I've heard of veg oil negatively affecting glowplugs and I fail to see how this can happen - any pics of the burnt-through glows?

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