Shell V-Power diesel

[Deleted member 37751]

I got roughly 360-380 miles to that ten gallon of VPower, I've now put ten gallon of 'normal' diesel in so let's see what this returns.....

 

[Geoff A]

If you're that worried about pump lubrication, put a Cummins/Fleetguard lubricity filter on. It's used on industrial machinery that burns Jet 1A/Kerosene and other odd oil-based fuels which have almost no lubrication properties.
Sulphur lubricates too, and there's less of it in fuel now (which is a good thing).

 

[st4]

I've used it once in the shed and found it worse in fuel, like Will, than normal stuff. About 2-3mpg less. The 220cdi I had before, did rather better on it though, but it had a higher compression ratio than the 320cdi

 

[Schuey]

It was just keen to get away from Birmingham as efficiently as possible .

Nothing wrong with Birmingham

I've used V-Power Diesel too a couple of times, didn't notice any difference so went back to the regular Shell Diesel.

 

[ironsheik]

I just use normal diesel but put some millers in (Millers Oils Diesel Power Ecomax) runs a lot quieter and smoother few more mpg but works out a lot cheaper than v power diesel.

Is millers ok to use on the newer CDI engines?

 

[Dieselman]

Is millers ok to use on the newer CDI engines?

Yes.

 

[Dieselman]

When I picked my car up from Birmingham last week I thought I'd put 10 gallon of V Power diesel in just to see if it'd make any difference because I'm very cynical about these things.

So far I seem to be getting more mpg than I would do with 'normal' diesel.

How do you know, it's a new car and your first fill.

I'll try 10 gallon of the normal stuff next and see what the trip computer comes up with.

That's where I went wrong, I put in 17.5 gallons of V-power and now 18 gallons of regular...

 

[Stratman]

From what I've been told, with the V-Power petrol at least, is that you need to use it regularly in order to see the benefit........

They would say that, wouldn't they

It's a bit like putting 'Repeat' at the end of the instructions on shampoo.

 

[Deleted member 37751]

How do you know, it's a new car and your first fill.

Same 320 V6 CDi as my last W211, so it should be very similar mpg.

I generally put ten gallon in whenever the light comes on, so I know when the car is being thirsty.

 

[Dieselman]

Same 320 V6 CDi as my last W211, so it should be very similar mpg.

I generally put ten gallon in whenever the light comes on, so I know when the car is being thirsty.

So you aren't actually measuring the fuel consumption, just relying on the dashboard guessometer and for one fill only on a new car.

I, on the other hand perform brim to brim calcs every tank.

Hope you don't mind, but I'll stick to my method.

I did put 11 gallons into a spare car on Monday evening for a quick trip to Doncaster and back and can say from observation it is definitely more economical than the Mercedes...

 

[Deleted member 37751]

Yes, sorry, I don't get too crazy about mpg figures. I can just tell you *roughly* what my IL6 CDi did per gallon and also the V6.

You stick to your spreadsheets, I'll stick to my 10 gallon measurement.