Running on red

redhand said:

Rubbish. Red diesel is simply normal road fuel that has had a marker dye and certain marker chemicals added to it..

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Oh contrair, it may be a dye but it's not as clean as you think, water inhibition is rife even straight out of the tanker and talk about crap in it

But as previously said anything remotely common rail don't go near the stuff, it'll cost in the long run, a pal bought a 306 hdi and did it, took 2 months and £300 worth of sensors to put right

Phil_b said:

Oh contrair, it may be a dye but it's not as clean as you think, water inhibition is rife even straight out of the tanker and talk about crap in it

But as previously said anything remotely common rail don't go near the stuff, it'll cost in the long run, a pal bought a 306 hdi and did it, took 2 months and £300 worth of sensors to put right

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i know a chap who run his td5 on it and sed it run rough.Me defedner was fine on it, possibly a bit more smoke....

goonarmy said:

i know a chap who run his td5 on it and sed it run rough.Me defedner was fine on it, possibly a bit more smoke....

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Yes Td5's dont like it, know a few people who have tried it

Mine seemed fine on it when I was experimenting. It's the same as ordinary diesel with dye and marker chemicals. Some of the most expensive engines run on it ffs!!!

If a vehicle's running rough on red. It's more likely to be the **** from the storage tanks causing the problems.

I agree with redhand. Make sure its clean and so are your drums you collect it in. Like I said my td5 ran fine when it was off road

in answer to the original question, a friend of mine was fined around 1800 quid, and got some points on his licence, around 12 years ago but i think things have tightened up since then, he didn't lose his van

IIt's not worth the risk. I'm looking into making bio diesel

disco dan said:

in answer to the original question, a friend of mine was fined around 1800 quid, and got some points on his licence, around 12 years ago but i think things have tightened up since then, he didn't lose his van

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got dipped last year......3 cop cars, 2 bikes and a low loader parked in a lay-by.....the low loader was just returning from a trip to the pound....seriously, unless you've got evidence on you that your are exempt from fuel duty you get to watch your vehicle dragged away

with the price rising and the vat going up its another money maker for police so they will be dipping you can be sure of that.

howardo said:

This is correct to my knowledge, where i used to work we ran all our vehicles on red, some were brand new modern engines and had no issues with it.

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I'm pretty sure that vehicles used "air side" at airports run on red

Spyderman said:

I'm pretty sure that vehicles used "air side" at airports run on red

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most big sites run red on site like the steel works and large factory,s vech unregistered as well

I work for the environment agency driveing a lorry, and one of my weekly jobs is to fuel up the tractors, 360 excavators, draglines, tracked dumpers and all sorts of other stuff from timberwolf chippers to tug boats, all the plant machines we run are no older than 5 years maximum, then they get replaced with new, the tractors have just been replaced and are 2010 plate john deers running herder flails or winches, the 360's are 2008 plate CAT's and all run on red diesel, so to say that modern machines dont like, or wont run on red, is 100% not true, and that is a fact....

I had my tank dipped a couple of years back, I was driving past the local cattle market on market day, so I guess they were trying to catch farmers using the tractor fuel, but there wasn't enough fuel in the tank for them to get a sample, they never tried disconnecting any pipes though

I got pulled into a layby road check. and dipped. with the sniffer they use never found any red diesel or white diesel for that matter.. As I was driving a very rattly petrol engined bedford Astramax. He wasn't an happy chappy For some strange reason..

My reply to his rant of why didn't you tell me it was petrol engined. "Why the fook didn't you ask me if it was diesel engined." Didn't do anything for his complexion either..

I ran a 2 ltr Renault 21 on red a few years ago when I worked for a plant hire company. It didn't smoke and had a little more power than on white.
Those days red didn't have the same additives in as road fuel so that's prob why it went better, most red these days is nicked and prob contaminated by using old drums etc to store it in.
Like has been said, bloke next door to my bro uses it in his John Deere's with no problems.

if a tractor wont run on red they wont sell very many

ricc said:

if a tractor wont run on red they wont sell very many

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All David Browns and Field Marshalls in Somerset arn't they

just a quick note red diesel as noted, sometimes does not contain the additives used in road diesel (i.e anti waxing agents for cold weather). During the recent cold snap on the site i work at we have changed filters due to waxing & i have witnessed an electronic fuel pump being changed on another vehicle due to waxing damage (confirmed by a Cummins technician)

None of local farmers had problems here when it was minus 15