question 1 fuel

Ahhh sooo
I am not going MAD then ,
I have been noticeing that for not months but ....3 years, when I use BP i seem to go further, I thought maybe I was imagining things.

Doug

Peter,
I have noticed some Volume Plus are biodiesel

Yes most of them are, I won't ever use it again. I have no problem with using biodiesel usually, the stuff from Marrickville or rutherglen up in the Hunter is ok but as I said the EGT's with the VP bio were extreme.

Hi there Gerry, Was talking to the bloke that bought my hilux off me the other day found some spare parts I had so had to get his address again to send off to him. He was telling me he ran biodiesel by mistake in the old lux a few weeks ago 2 tank fulls before he realised the pump he was filling up with was bio diesel. He said the fuel usage jumped from 10 per 100 to 14.7. I told him I never ever had those figures in the time I owned it. When he realized that he filled with bio he went back to normal diesel and all back to normal again. Took a couple of tanks to get back down to the 10L per 100. I have also heard this stuff stuffs the seals on the older pumps only what Ive heard.I had never used it. Regards Steve M

Hi Steve,
Yeh, in my case, there was no chance of an abberation; I had driven from WA to Vic and NSW with basically the same load, speed, etc, so I knew what was my average fuel consumption. Did two full tanks of B50 bio (misquoted B40 on my earlier post); ie, about 250L, and I thought I had problems with the wagon, but decided that it was the diesel, so went back to a mainstream stuff, and all was ok after that. Was normally getting about 13L/100k, but it went up to about 15 with the B50. It was quite a bit cheaper than standard diesel, but the extra consumption whittled away any savings.
But I've run the SAFF (B20) a bit in SA and Gull B20 in WA - no real difference in consumption as far as I can observe. So dunno what was in that B50 - thinners, perhaps? Looked like p!ss, real yellow!

Gerry