Diesel Mix

[DIW]

Advice please - is it ok to mix Red diesel with road diesel ?

 

[kspirit53]

Yes, I did it OK in France last year with no problems

 

[narooma]

yes

 

[Spyro]

As long as you don't put it in your car /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[chrishelen]

Exactly the same stuff with red dye added.

 

[oldharry]

I dont think it always is. I read somewhere on the forum that Red is less refined and has fewer additives.

White is fine for the boat. Red is a fine if its in the car - even in small amounts.

 

[colinroybarrett]

We have mixed red with white, over the last five years, depending on the current rules of the country we were in at the time, no problems at all. Sadly België stopped the sale of red diesel in January 2007, so we run mostly on white now anyway.

We met a couple in France this year who had discovered that they could buy a pallet of ‘Aldi’ cooking oil for €.65 per litre, they said the exhaust “smelled a bit different” but had had no issues with their admittedly very elderly engine, except for disposing of 600 empty plastic bottles!

 

[sarabande]

Red and white do vary in terms of detailed additives (not just the colourant and other tracers).

Should be no problem mixing the two, but be careful if you are using a diesel bought in the summer on an engine in wintertime; it could wax up in the filters.

 

[ex-Gladys]

SBC would tell you in detail... from what I recall Red is effectively heating oil, and is not low sulphur... Is it 100 sec oil?

 

[cliffb]

FWIW my heating oil is 28 sec.

 

[vyv_cox]

A fact that I feel certain will be of enormous interest to all yachtsmen. If you mix UK tax-free red diesel with Irish tax-free green diesel, it turns colourless! Must be some opportunities there.

 

[chrishelen]

Hi Harry,i checked this one out with Silveys the oil distributor who supplies us with red diesel,their teck dept boffin confirms red and white same thing,you could use it in your car winter or summer and it would chuck out the same sxxx as white,exept if you got caught=curtains.

 

[charles_reed]

My experience..

of mixing red and green diesel was that the resulting stuff was rust coloured - still that was about 9 years ago!

 

[Heckler]

Re: My experience..

and me, sorry vyv, it was rusty coloured when i mixed my dun laoughrie (sic) green with pwllheli red!
stu

 

[exfinnsailor]

Yes it works and its cheap till you get caught . Then you have to work out if the fine was worth it . In Ireland last year the Gardi were standing in the road with the customs men taking samples from every diesel vehical . Long queues and a Gardi patrol for those who tried to turn back. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[exfinnsailor]

However my VW runs very well on COOKING OIL from ASDA
Dont go to mad though. Half tank of Diesel topped up with Half tank of COOKING OIL . Smells abit like a chip shop but its only about 35p a litre. Usually have to buy the 1 Litre bottles so I can get it in the tank and then take the empties to the bottle bank /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif It will not run on straight COOKING OIL so be careful ........ Ps its also illegal ..

 

[oldharry]

Maybe, but IIRC SBC who is in the oil industry advised us that red and DERV are not always the same. Cant find the post though - it was some time ago.

If he is right, DERV will do nicely in the boat, but the car might not like it any more than you would like the fine if you get caught.