What colour SHOULD diesel be?

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Ok bit of a strange question, but i'll ask it anyway.

I just cleaned out my sedometer. Little bit of gack in the bottom, nothing major. Bout 3/4 full of diesel. Anyway, the diesel that came out looked like black currant juice. If i had to hazard a guess i'd say it was Red Diesel. Iv only had the car a week and i dunno what the guy before me was running in it.

If he had been using the red stuff, would the sedometer still be red?
 
Lmao, i just wanted confirmation

I'd rather it be red diesel than something corroding giving it a red tinge.

from looking at all the sedimeter threads, noone has has red liquid in there. So im guessing the previous owner was dodgy :D
 
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Great... horror stories from the abyss. That would be just my luck!
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first the HMRC guy isn't interested in the colour of your diesel. What he's looking for are the chemicals that are added to the fuel at source that will identify it as duty free or low duty gas oil. The red is only there so that the person filling the tank can see that it's not supposed to be going into the tank. You can legally dye your diesel any colour you want & can buy the dyes off eBay. When they do a sniffer test of your fuel they are look for a certain ratio of chemicals in the fuel So if you've filled the tank with road fuel diesel then you will fall below the ratio and they will not be able to do **** to you.

Forget all the myths about stained fuel lines and checking filters for evidence of red fuel. Unless they think you're a major player if fuel duty avoidance they just aren't gonna be interested in your disco.
 
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I got pulled into a police/VOSA/HMRC/Dole Squad road block in my mate's 110, when I lived in Wales. Plod waved me in to layby and I got out to find out what the crack was. Arrogant fooking prick of a Traffic cop shouted at me to get back in my "bloody vehicle" He din't appreciate me telling him to go and fook himself. & from that point on I refused to answer any of their questions other than to give my name and address. which I also refused to confirm after he had written it down. HMRC dipped the tank and was well ****ed off when they discovered it had a 2.5 petrol engine in it :hysterically_laughi. Cos it seriously ****ed up their sniffer. :D. I just replied Sorry I don't understand ya question to everything they said. Apparently it'd been a diesel at some point in its life and someone had put a petrol engine in it. but it was still showing as a diesel, on their records. :doh:
 
well never found my self the wrong side of the law but i do find it difficult to give the police respect because of things like this some and it is only some are a total buntch of *****ers it will be some thing like that the way they speak to you and act like god that will find me the wrong side of the law some i no smacked a helth an safty inspector and he says to se him layed on his back is the best £750 he has spent

a red tint in the filter looks like red diesel but a black gunge can be a bacteria that can grow in diesel
 
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