Neither source reads like that to me :confused: As far as I can tell biodiesel does slowly dissolve natural rubber. From the sound of it - it's not an issue someone's had with land rovers. :o What else I've read seems to indicate that it's a problem that'll occur slowly if at all so there'll be...

Here's two sources... Biodiesel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And this one

I've been led to believe that biodiesel is a better solvent than petrodiesel and can effect natural rubber parts.

I'm looking to run my 200tdi defender on biodiesel (not SVO :)). As far as I understand, this should be fairly straight forward, I just need to watch the fuel filter after the first few hundred miles and I may need to change some hoses. How can I tell if the hoses fitted aren't suitable and...

Thanks. I thought as much. The reliability of the tdi engines has been the main reason I was considering them :-)

I'm looking to purchase my first defender. At the moment I'm looking at what appears to be a rather well looked after '91 200tdi. Whilst I don't think 150,000 miles is bad for a car of that age, is there anything I need to look out for in a 200tdi engine of that distance? It's been recently...