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Not unless you want to knacker it up with the first bad batch you get. I would steer well clear of Bio in a common rail motor.
 
Thought that my mate said if you run them on that ****, you would be as well using red then the argument started about common rail don't run on red or do they.?
 
jiloppy said:
Thought that my mate said if you run them on that ****, you would be as well using red then the argument started about common rail don't run on red or do they.?
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Red is "normal" white diesel with a red marker dye added to show that no fuel duty has been paid on it. the red is a visual marker. However there are also several chemical markers added to it as well, And it the chemical markers that HMRC look for when they sniff (dip) ya tank. Neither the dye nor the chemical markers have any effect on the running of the motor. common rail or otherwise.
 
Out of interest, how difficult is it to get that dye out? I've never heard of any kind of 'black market' diesel so I presume quite hard. Although fractional distillation would probably work.
 
TCubed said:
Out of interest, how difficult is it to get that dye out? I've never heard of any kind of 'black market' diesel so I presume quite hard. Although fractional distillation would probably work.
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It can be done IRA do it in huge qtys and then ship it over the border into Northern Ireland, by the tankerful. Which is why HMRC started adding chemical markers. Removing the dye is pointless as they don't look at the colour they drop a sniffer probe, (similar to an exhaust gas analyzer probe) in ya tank. if it detects the chemical tracers yu is fooked..
 
redhand said:
It can be done IRA do it in huge qtys and then ship it over the border into Northern Ireland, by the tankerful. Which is why HMRC started adding chemical markers. Removing the dye is pointless as they don't look at the colour they drop a sniffer probe, (similar to an exhaust gas analyzer probe) in ya tank. if it detects the chemical tracers yu is fooked..
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yea great piles of cat litter and drums of chems dumped round the green isle.Firm in newport got caught they had a milk tanker deliveries in early hours.Still cant work out how that coach firm got caught.
 
TCubed said:
Out of interest, how difficult is it to get that dye out? I've never heard of any kind of 'black market' diesel so I presume quite hard. Although fractional distillation would probably work.
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Probably.. but for the work involved and the fuel/equipment to heat the diesel you may as well just pay the duty on normal diesel.

It wouldn't be beneficial either as the chemical markers will still remain and will still be tested. As mentioned none of the above have a documented effect on diesel engines or associated systems.
 
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