Coffeemonster
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Hi all, this is almost certainly a newbie question, but there you go...
I bought my 2004 Td4 Freelander only recently; its lovely, very clean with 97,000 miles on the clock and runs fine. I'm still waiting for the Full Service History it was advertised with though...
OK, so I had a full service done together with a vehicle health check which seems to have been pretty thorough, and they found a few points to sort but nothing pressing except one track rod end had a bit of play in it so I had that replaced on the spot. Now that I know all that, I'm wondering about the engine internals. When I picked it up it was almost empty so I filled it with ordinary diesel to get home and three weeks later I've needed to fill it again; I read somewhere that using a fuel additive like Redex is not a good idea with the Td4 engine so I filled the tank with premium diesel instead (BP Ultimate to be precise). So - three questions:
1) Is it true that ordinary diesel with Redex added is a no-no for cleaning out the injectors etc?
2) Will running it with premium diesel in every second or third tank do the same job?
3) Will either regime do anything the other won't? Or to put it another way, which would be better?
I bought my 2004 Td4 Freelander only recently; its lovely, very clean with 97,000 miles on the clock and runs fine. I'm still waiting for the Full Service History it was advertised with though...
OK, so I had a full service done together with a vehicle health check which seems to have been pretty thorough, and they found a few points to sort but nothing pressing except one track rod end had a bit of play in it so I had that replaced on the spot. Now that I know all that, I'm wondering about the engine internals. When I picked it up it was almost empty so I filled it with ordinary diesel to get home and three weeks later I've needed to fill it again; I read somewhere that using a fuel additive like Redex is not a good idea with the Td4 engine so I filled the tank with premium diesel instead (BP Ultimate to be precise). So - three questions:
1) Is it true that ordinary diesel with Redex added is a no-no for cleaning out the injectors etc?
2) Will running it with premium diesel in every second or third tank do the same job?
3) Will either regime do anything the other won't? Or to put it another way, which would be better?