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May 24th, 2019, 11:54 | #11 |
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Great responses, thanks.
Do any of you add these fuel additives to your fuel tank, like Redex? |
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May 24th, 2019, 12:02 | #12 |
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I sometimes do, something like Comma Fuel Injector cleaner or similar, Redex is in a similar group but i don't feel it works as well as the Comma or indeed ATF-U that i experimented with at one time. Literally only need about 50ml for a full tank, i mentioned to someone else that i'd tried it, they decided to do the same with a larger quantity and had similar results to me, much smoother after a week or so of running, fuel pumps quieter, generally more responsive.
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My car is on 205K and for the last 120K miles has been run pretty much on either Asda or Tesco diesel with no ill effects. I did try about 10 tank fulls one after the other of V power and the car ran exactly the same and returned exactly the same MPG so reverted to supermarkert or Costco if in the vicinity.
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My friend's 1942 Willys Jeep has a plate saying " minimum octane 68".
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That was almost jet fuel back then though!
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May 24th, 2019, 22:37 | #18 |
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Shouldn't cause any problems, like most products people have their favourites, i'm not a fan of Redex, prefer Comma , Wynns or similar but most proprietary things are reasonably good.
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Can't answer for diesels as I've never owned one.but a good few years ago I tried running a Senator I had at the time on the Shell super duper stuff[whatever it was called at the time] and the only difference I noticed was the fact I got less petrol for my £££s so I went back to using whatever was cheapest[as long I wasn't having to detour to get it] I've never had problems with fuel from a supermarket or any other source.Way back when petrol staion forecourts used to have a large can of Redex at the pumps which you could ask for when fuelling[yes people used to come out and put fuel in your car for you]so you'd ask for X gallons[or specify a money amount]and then Y number of shots of Redex at 1d a shot.
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Which basically made it a weak two stroke.
I've never used anything but supermarket, petrol and diesel, in any of my vehicles and it's never caused any problems and I seem to get the accepted fuel econemy for them all of them.
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