Anybody here tried this? Have you noticed much difference? I've been running it for a few weeks, and what I've noticed is less smoke, slightly better MPG, and it picks up slightly better at lower revs. I think It's pretty good though. The price difference here is only about 6 pence, so on a fill-up, it's only about £2 extra than standard diesel, and a higher quality product!

to be honest, on a car under 2.0 and that is just a family car then its not worth it, only performance motors will get a benefit from it!

Well so I've heard, but it seems that with diesel, performance fuels often do make a difference in all manner of engines. Fifth gear tested it an found that their donkey got 6 extra BHP. And I think that was a Golf. I'll try and find the video.

Here it is - They used a Citroen estate

Yes, but with a one of cost of about £5, you can get a solid EGR blanking plate that will give you better pick-up, economy and less smoke (as well as keeping the inlet clean from carbon from the EGR) - and you dont have to pay an extra £2 per tankfull (how many tankfulls in a year- must add up!)

The BP ultimate has a higher cetane rating than "budget" fuels, and also contains detergent, - some owners use the cheapest supermarket pump fuel they can find, then fill up with ultimate (or other "premium" fuel with detergent) every few tankfulls

That reminds me, ive got to fill up with my bio-degradable sustainable renuable non toxic solar powered fuel (AKA veg oil) 99p a litre new/ clean

I did use BP ultimate once, on the way to get my car dynoed - wouldnt buy it normally as fuel is already too expensive, so there is no way im paying even more for it day-to-day

Yes, but with a one of cost of about £5, you can get a solid EGR blanking plate that will give you better pick-up, economy and less smoke (as well as keeping the inlet clean from carbon from the EGR) - and you dont have to pay an extra £2 per tankfull (how many tankfulls in a year- must add up!)

The BP ultimate has a higher cetane rating than "budget" fuels, and also contains detergent, - some owners use the cheapest supermarket pump fuel they can find, then fill up with ultimate (or other "premium" fuel with detergent) every few tankfulls

That reminds me, ive got to fill up with my bio-degradable sustainable renuable non toxic solar powered fuel (AKA veg oil) 99p a litre new/ clean

I did use BP ultimate once, on the way to get my car dynoed - wouldnt buy it normally as fuel is already too expensive, so there is no way im paying even more for it day-to-day

You are fond of these EGR blanking plates :D No thanks though. Environment and that, innit?

Also - I've searched long and hard locally to try and source bio-diesel. No such luck with anything more than B10. The only sources I know of are from farmers, which isn't handy.

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I certainly do like these plates, along with many other FOC members who run them with positive results!

Its debatable whether fitting a blanking plate is better or worse for the enviroment, as fitting one tends to reduce smoke output and increases MPG (better MPG = better for the enviroment) of course, as not running a solid EGR plate tends to carbon-up the inlet that eventually chokes up - further reducing MPG, and making the engine run richer, further incresing smoke

+ running fossil fuel has a far greater enviromental impact than EGR plates could ever have, (fixed by running bio-diesli or SVO)

Fossil fuels (regular petrol or diesel) are finite and non - sustainable / renuable, pump diesel now includes 5 to 7 percent bio -diesel, scince approx 2007, when the changeover from high-sulphor to low sulphor diesel, the high sulphor in the deisel helped to lubricate injectors etc, but was not good for the enviroment , the 5-7 percent bio-diesel is a derivative of veg oli (allegedly) which has good lubricating qualities (to replace the sulphor)

The type of fuel i add is SVO or straight vegatable oli, AKA rape-seed oil, it is available almost everywhere as cooking oli, if you shop around, you can often buy it cheaply, it is clean and unburnt, the last lot i bought cost 99p per litre, it is legal to use in the UK scince 2007 - it is not an unsustainable fossil fuel and is renuable, as long as the sun shines - running on it is like your car being solar-powered, (indirectly)

A TDDI can run on SVO, with the correct knowlege/ running at the right (or acceptable) mixture, save you pennies and save the planet at the same time! (ive done it for years!)

I'd love to run SVO, but like I said, when I got the car, I looked into and looked into it for a long time, and couldn't find a viable, feasible source. I could go into Asda and get 10 litres of cooking oil - the cheapest they have, but, what I found out that it wasn't actually cheaper than even high-performance diesel, but it was in fact more expensive. Since that, well, there aren't any places around here where I could get it cheaper (tried Lidl - just as expensive as Asda). I'd love 99p a litre, and to run on veg oil, but it seems it's not something that's easily available to me.

But just on the point of rapeseed oil being entirely sustainable - it's not. It's takes energy to grow. Not just solar energy, but energy from machinery. I looked into this too. Basically, if the oil ran out tomorrow, we're screwed, because even though we can make cars run on biodiesel and SVO, the efficiency in creating the product isn't great. It's certainly preferable to fossil fuels, but you'd actually need an ever-increasing harvest just to make up for the losses in manufacturing. It happens in oil too, but back in the 1920s, I think they got something like 7 barrels for every 1 barrel they used to get it out of the ground.

Also - the smoke output of my car is minimal. I was hammering it a few days ago and could see nothing in the mirror. A hard rev in the yard (above what you would ever rev it to on the road, and much faster up the rev range) produced a small amount of grey smoke.