Having same problems with mine tim..

Just put a fivers worth of petrol in half a tank of bio.. see if that works.. battery only been on less than 12 months so should still be good..

If no good ill be gettin some new glow plugs at the weekend..
 
nick2303 said:
Having same problems with mine tim..

Just put a fivers worth of petrol in half a tank of bio.. see if that works.. battery only been on less than 12 months so should still be good..

If no good ill be gettin some new glow plugs at the weekend..
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Glow plugs are only to help get engine started, and not used like spark plugs

new glow plugs would not change the way the engine runs
 
well, seeing as its not got above freezing here today, Im gonna stick a couple of gallon of dino in it (theres only about 4 gallon in the tank) hopefully that should thin it out for now, got a can at home ill fill with petrol this eve ready for me next fill up.
 
made it home with no fuss, coughed and spluttered to the filling station, stuck 3 gal in, coughed my way for the next mile, then smooth as normal.
 
Biofuel will become thicker in the colder conditions, TD5's don't suffer from this asthe fuel is pre heated before going into the injectors so it thins out, a TDi will have issues as the fuel goes in cold so they suffer in the winters, fit a fuel preheater and it will solve the problem
 
Meant mine was down on power and miserable to start, when it would..

Thinned it down with a bit of petrol and she starts n runs better now..
 
timtheenchanteruk said:
lol, good reading there, for what was a relatively simple question!!!
now then ,bio rocket fuel.
liquid oxygen and kerosene is used, so dont see why not, aint there an airline running bio fuelled jets about these days?
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macdonalds run their trucks on it,




so it must be true then....... :googleit:
 
Steviecops said:
I started running my 300 tdi on bio yesterday. I was a bit concerned about the cold weather so I added cold flow 350. It might be an expensive option, I don't know. It adds less than 5p a litre on the cost of making your bio and I'm a beginner, so happy to pay that if it works. I kept a jar of bio outside near the car last night. - 6 here this morning and this is how it looked in the jar.

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No solids in there, so looks good so far. Car started no worse than it does on regular diesel in the cold. Just stuttered for a second after firing, then was fine. The car actually seems to pull better on bio.
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ere, you shore you aint pee`d in it instead...lol..
:focus:
as it happens, coz I have "issues" with my 200DTi motor, I have been running on straight pump derv for a couple of weeks, if just to see if it made things better or worse.
nothing changed really, so,
on a 1/4 tank of derv, i put a couple of litres of veg oil in the tank again...
oh how smooth my motor runs again, it actually starts easier & "sounds" better from cold....
 
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A properly made batch of biofuel should be cleaner than diesel which is why they run better on biofuel, another thing to do when going from diesel to biofuel is to change a fuel filter as the biofuel will clean the old filter and drag the crap in the filter into the engine, TDi and TD5 can both run on 100% biofuel but the TDi will suffer in the colder temperatures as I mentioned in my previous post
 
Hi,
Sorry if I have missed something and maybe being really thick😄
I am thinking of running my '89 landy 90 on bio, it's got a 300tdi engine and the bloke at the garage said that I should use a 80% - 20% mix with normal pump diesel, why are a lot of you recommending putting petrol in?
 
TD5power said:
A properly made batch of biofuel should be cleaner than diesel which is why they run better on biofuel, another thing to do when going from diesel to biofuel is to change a fuel filter as the biofuel will clean the old filter and drag the crap in the filter into the engine, TDi and TD5 can both run on 100% biofuel but the TDi will suffer in the colder temperatures as I mentioned in my previous post
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my tdi is better on fuel and power in the cold on bio.....
 
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