Category: Fuels Forum

Hello, I am aware that there are probably already similar topics, but these are partly already very old again and I did not want to dig out years old posts. With me is a new vehicle purchase and I ask now the question whether I should get a diesel or petroler. A way to work is 11km via highway only 50 and 70 km/h zones, driving time about 15min. Otherwise I drive also only shorter distances (in the neighboring place to the parents, shopping etc…) län My driving performance per year is therefore estimated to be below or just over 10,000km. When looking at vehicles, a dealer told me that it is no longer so problemmatic to drive short distances with a diesel. But did he also say that you should be on the road a little longer on a regular basis or that you should bring the car to higher temperatures on the motorway for a little longer time? Is that true? Could I do that? I don’t think much more about getting a diesel? Or would you rather put it on a petrol truck or maybe one with LPG?

Hello, I have the impression that at about E50 my TSI is off work, after about 80 km the MKL comes over it. Have the test times deleted, but came back after 50 km. Lamda still fits. The question is: does the error cause something to the engine control? Otherwise the engine runs like usual: slightly tilted idle, rougher running noise while accelerating and feels a bit rutty acceleration (as if always controlled by the control unit), otherwise everything is ok. what kind of fuel to fuel or to add more gasoline to the next tank? Or can you basically ignore the lamp because Lamda and exhaust gas temperature are ok? Thank you.

Hello, I have seen a video where at least the engine of a lawnmower ran on pure (!) kerosene. Kerosene is basically kerosene without certain additives. So far so good. Unfortunately there is nothing about the octane number of kerosene in the net. Does not need a turbine either. My Astra F has driven with a diesel petrol mixture and that without any problems. (Only in absolute cold run still a bit at the stall) There is no information about the exact mixture. The engine has a compression of 10.0:1 and can tolerate even 91 octan officially. Furthermore, petroleum is very degreasing and should condense on the cylinder wall at cold engine temperatures and influence the lubricating film. My questions about petroleum: -100% is out of the question, because of other calorific value, strongly degreasing and hardly knock-resistant (only unknown, how much) -80% Petroleum/20% Petrol hardly becomes an Unt -50% Petroleum/50% Petrol – how could it behave at operating temperature and full speed? -30% Petroleum/70% Petrol – better? Please no comments like “Puff explosion ready” or too pessimistic and optimistic comments. I know it would run without any problems with little load. I just don’t plan to sacrifice an engine for it right away to find out what happened at Vollast. Anyway, he survived the diesel fantastically without measurable wear – was but only one full tank! Has anyone ever had any experience with it?

Hey you guys, a general question: would you buy a diesel now? So a new one, or a young used one. I’m about to decide on the car purchase in the fall and am a long-distance driver, so the question is whether a diesel is still worth it at the moment or whether it would be nonsense to buy a diesel now. Thanks for your opinions!

Quotation: The new petrol could be considerably more harmful to the engines than previously known. BMW and Daimler want to investigate a new suspicion together. Three to four million cars on German roads do not tolerate the new fuel type E10 at all – that was already known. But now there is a new suspicion: all other cars could also be affected. Because E10, with conventional petrol ten percent ethanol from grain and sugar beet beet The biofuel E10: German motorists have no confidence in the new fuel Due to the high ethanol content, the amount of water in the engine increases, said Thomas Brüner, head of mechanical development at BMW, the “world on Sunday”: “The water condenses from the combustion gases and gets into the oil, which is diluted and aged faster. n, “that we have to shorten the oil exchange intervals.” In clear terms: In future, drivers may have to drive to the workshop more often to change oil – which costs for example, for a six-cylinder every time a good 200 euros. Whether it comes to this or whether the E10 sprite sold in Germany is good enough, the automakers do not yet know. BMW therefore wants to carry out tests together with the competitor Daimler. Experts advise drivers, in the meantime, If this indicates a higher oil level than the previous control, there is suspicion of oil dilution. E10 has been introduced in Germany since the beginning of the year. This is intended to reduce the emissions of the greenhouse gas CO2 – despite the warning of environmental associations that believe that the climate balance of E10 is even negative. Many unsettled and angry drivers are now still fuelling the only remaining fuel of an old kind, Super Plus – although this is more expensive This week, it forced entire refineries to stop their production. “The confusion at the pump must end,” said Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer (CSU) of the “World on Sunday.” At the petrol summit convened for Tuesday, the Federal Government will “discuss the further action with all those involved: “The oil industry must explain the lack of information and substantially improve consumer education. The energy expert of the Federal Consumer Association (vzbv), Holger Krawinkel, for example, welcomes the buyer’s strike: “Politics must now finally consider how it puts the ecological renewal of the energy system off its head.” Criticism is directed above all at the leading minister: Environment Director Norbert Röttgen (CDU). “The sensorium for moods and sensitivities in the population is extremely submerged in the ministry,” said FDP-Fra. The chairman of the Transport Committee in the Bundestag, Winfried Hermann (Greens), said that the planned petrol summit was “rather a summit of aftercare, because the Federal Government has forgotten the precautionary coordination.” Hermann calls for a preliminary end to the Biosprit project: “The government must stop the introduction of the new fuel varieties.” It has to be clarified at first which engines are really deceiving the fuel and in which the ecolog Source: http://goo.gl/HhFBf

Hello everyone, I would like to tackle this topic, because my interest in this kind of fuel is quite large and I have the feeling that there is not much information yet. With this link everything started. http://www.adac.de/images/23212_tcm8-124557.pdf As can be read in this pdf file, one distinguishes between two varieties at Plantanol: “plantanol-diesel-diesel” and “plantanol-diesel 100”. The former consists of pure vegetable oil and a 2% addition of a Additives DX52, which promises better ignition capability, more effective and better combustion, increased performance and improved motor running properties etc. with Pöl. This type is intended for pre- or vortex chamber diesel engines. So the ADAC writes that you can, for example, operate a VAG TD with 100% Pöl by simply adding the 2% additive DX 52? That’s just what I don’t understand. Isn’t the Pöl with the additive still too thick? afstoffsorte, “plantanol-diesel 100”, is suitable for direct injections (TDI, TDI PD, Common Rail). This species consists of 70% Pöl, 30% (Bio)Diesel and 2% Additive DX52 in summer. In winter, the percentage of the flow improver is increased. Thus, it is specified that a DI with this mixture is fully operational, the mixture is probably not too thick liquid in this case too? Suddenly no more problems with oil input into the oil? the “plantanol-diesel 100” for the TDI, because we have a rather high annual driving performance with the Sharan TDI PD, but a two-tank conversion is too expensive. Would I be very pleased about opinions on this topic. MfG Simon

Moin people, I have a question, and I have already milled myself through the forum for a few hours and would like to try one of my V8 Fords (see Sig) the admixture of schnapps. Is there actually in ethanol operation for large volume slow turning machines compatibility advantages or are small motors better off? How should I handle it? I also have a small Omega 2.0, C20NE, what does it look like with this. But most of all this would interest me because of the Americans. Thank you.

Hello, I just read that in early 2009 the Co 2 tax should come. Somehow I found at the google nix exact about it. Can it be that there are no exact designs for it yet?! Where can I find a hint how much Co2 my car consumes, or how it is then classified later. In a table you could see that diesel drivers, well noted with PF have a big advantage over the PS equally strong gasoline engines, because they have a smaller Co2 We That can’t be true, can it?! Drivers will have a disadvantage by that I would say… Greeting Martin

Hello, how is this supposed to work if various manufacturers of E85 control units claim that they can disgnose the mixture by means of Lambdasone? At my W124 500E, for example, I only have an older narrowband probe, as most vehicles, to my knowledge, still have today. Is the Humbug or funzt dat? – Best control unit for my V8 ??? 🙂

Hello guys, I used to drive a Renault Twingo with E85 and have had good experience with the Schwedenbox AutoX4. Unfortunately I was separated from this ingenious mobile after a painful battle in the stowage. Now I drive a Renault Megane 1.6 16V Grandtour. It was built at the end of 2006 and has 110 hp. A little later (March 2008) the model with modified engine for E85 came on the market (see http://www.autosieger.de/article14463.html). In 2006 I also started attempts to drive with E85. In addition, I increased the dose and monitored the ECU with the notebook. It also runs very well with E85. However, the consumption with 9.4 – 10.6 liters E85 is unusually high. With Super I used a little 6,8 – 7,4 liters. This makes an additional consumption of 40% and E85 relatively unattractive, since still starting difficulties (3-4 attempts) are added. What prevented me so far from installing the box at the Megane was that the Meggi measures the fuel consumption over the injection times and moves accordingly also the tank needle. That means that the data after installation will no longer be correct and the tank will be empty before the needle will move into the area of the reserve. What would you do to get the Megane to get used to the drinking and to reduce the starting difficulties? Half-spun ideas are of course still developed. ch welcome. Greetings myfriend