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Gazwould
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These sort of additives do work on injectors AFAIK but in terms of the turbo I don’t think they do much.
I have used Millers but I think they are all fairly similar.. another option is to use premium diesel but with the way current fuel prices are it will be much cheaper to add the additive yourself.
Thanks. I never use supermarket diesel only main brands just thought the extra additives might help.
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Whenever Tesco have the Redex additive pictured above on half price offer (£2 instead of £4, enough for 2 full tanks) I buy a couple of bottles, can't document whether or not it does any good but at £1 per tankful, not too bothered. Car (S204 C220Cdi 2008) is running sweetly (touches wood rapidly!) at about 110k miles.
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Not again!
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS SUPERMARKET FUEL!
There are, I think, 5 main fuel Refineries in the UK.
The Supermarkets (who retail the majority of fuel sold so if it was sub standard as you seem to suggest we would have millions of damaged vehicles which we do not...) do not make the fuel they retail.
ALL fuel sold in the UK is made to the same BS standard.
Some retailers (including Supermarkets) do add their own mix of extra cleaning chemicals etc to this base mix and advertise and charge accordingly
The base fuels however are the same.
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Been running my C220 for 50k miles on dominantly supermarket standard diesel since I bought it in March 2012, had to add 1/2 tank of BP Premium diesel a couple of weeks ago and have not noticed any difference - other than having to pay £1.60/l instead of about £1.42!!
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Tesco ordinary diesel since owning for more than 2 years. Car regens when it wants to on its own, never feel or notice when it does.
Supermarket fuel maybe cleaner than you think, or I just got lucky.
Supermarket fuel maybe cleaner than you think, or I just got lucky.
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Can we please stop referring to it as "Supermarket fuel"?
It is misleading and inaccurate.
As I and others have stated several times, in terms of the base fuel it is all made to the same standard from UK refineries and, certainly for Diesel, until a retailer adds any specific chemical mix it remains the same.
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The chemical mix makes all the difference in my experience. The "cheaper" fuel coupled with using the car for short trips and not giving it a good boot causes so many clogging issues. DPF blockages, intake clogging up, EGR sticking etc etc.
Use your diesel car often, gives it some RPM once a week and some occasional fuel system cleaner will work wonders. I owned a chauffeur company for a few years alongside my garage business. The cars did 50K plus pa driven sedately. We ran premium fuel, occasionally fuel system cleaner and told our drivers to give them some welly once a week. We had not one clogging issue. No full DPF's, no injector issues and no gummed up intakes. We look after many many chauffeur cars and taxis at PCS and the amount of DPF issues we have with them are unreal. Mainly due to the style of driving. Under 2kRPM everywhere.....
Use your diesel car often, gives it some RPM once a week and some occasional fuel system cleaner will work wonders. I owned a chauffeur company for a few years alongside my garage business. The cars did 50K plus pa driven sedately. We ran premium fuel, occasionally fuel system cleaner and told our drivers to give them some welly once a week. We had not one clogging issue. No full DPF's, no injector issues and no gummed up intakes. We look after many many chauffeur cars and taxis at PCS and the amount of DPF issues we have with them are unreal. Mainly due to the style of driving. Under 2kRPM everywhere.....
