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Baconsdozen · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Sunny Lowestoft

After reading on various forums about the benefits of acetone,oil and other additives to diesel fuel I thought I'd try two stroke oil as mentioned on a few.Acetone seems a bit dodgy and although I had some good results with redex I thought the cost to be excessive for the slight gains it offered.
A low ash two stroke oil in the ratio of 1 to 50 definately makes the engine in my fairway quieter.it doesn't turn it into a rolls but the changes into OD (its an auto) are almost inaudible so much so that I thought at one time the box had failed and there is less diesel knock when the engine is cold.I noticed no real gain in power,maybe it runs a bit smoother and there is no increase (or to be fair decrease) in smoke.
Maybe it doesn't work for every engine but I'm going to carry on using it for a bit.
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GBC · Joined: 25 Dec 2004 Posts: 7259 Location: London

I'm on Redex nowadays.

Tesco had tham on sale for £3 ( Shock

) for the 250 ml ones.

I bought the lot. That should see me through 2010.
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Baconsdozen · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Sunny Lowestoft

The Redex additive I used was the 0-60 cetane booster.It seemed to offer an increase in performance and the engine was quieter but at £7 a bottle or so it was a bit expensive,I have heard that Wilkinsons and other discount shops do it for around the £5.50 mark.Nothing comes close to your price though.
Every little helps!.
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Nigel · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 1:47 pm Post subject: Re: Diesel additives.

Baconsdozen · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Sunny Lowestoft

I found an article on the net from an independant test of two stroke oil and other additives and how they reduced friction over straight diesel.Two stroke oil reduced friction as did some of the other addives although certain ones made friction (and wear) worse.
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Nigel · Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 5:00 am Post subject:

Cheersdrive · Joined: 05 Jan 2009 Posts: 26

" these new common rail diesel engines "

Not going to concern us TX1 users then Mr. Green

Tiny · Joined: 03 Jun 2008 Posts: 27

Redex user here too...think it works lol

GraniteTaxi · Joined: 23 Jul 2005 Posts: 35 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland

Millers
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Tiny · Joined: 03 Jun 2008 Posts: 27

ha ha you never know might work...

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Baconsdozen · Joined: 21 May 2008 Posts: 143 Location: Sunny Lowestoft

I've heard the Millers works best after it's been filtered by running it through a human.
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happytyskie · Joined: 16 Jul 2010 Posts: 7 Location: Wirral

I tried flooring the accelarator of my Fairway for about 30 seconds when parked up. The amount of black smoke was frightening. Added Redex & it seems to have given it a bit of power.

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