Eolys fluid

[handyman]

Anybody found a cheaper source of Eolys fluid for the diesel particulate filters? PSA dealer are way too expensive.

My usual source of Citroen parts say they cannot source it through normal channels.

Handyman

[JohnD]

Rhodia is the chemical company that makes it. I don't know if the chemical industry works in the same way as the pharmaceutical industry. When a pharma company discovers a new drug, they have sole rights to manufacture and sell for ten years. They can charge what ever they like. In the '60s Boots the chemists discovered and marketed a new drug called Brufen. It was very expensive. It was later called ibuprofen and became cheap as chips.

Maybe the chemical industry works the same. Maybe in a couple of years or so, other firms will be allowed to produce it, and the price will fall.