Premier Fuel Additive Update

[Moody]

Received this from Premier last night:

Dear Berth Holder,

You would have received an email from Premier Marinas on November 10th, 2011 containing advice from Soltron™ on the use of diesel fuel treatments and additives when boats are laid up for winter.

This may have inadvertently raised some questions over the efficacy of mixing other fuel treatments, additives, biocides and non biocides with Soltron™, and Soltron™ would now like to clarify this point.

Soltron™ is a highly effective advanced enzyme fuel technology developed to work in marine fuel oil to neutralise bacterial growth from contaminants such as diesel bug.

However, there are of course many quality suppliers of treatments and additives, one of which you may prefer to use at lay-up time and, if this is the case, Soltron™ has provided the following information:

If you choose to dose fuel containing Soltron™ with an additional branded fuel treatment, additive, biocide or non biocide the net effect is likely to be that the Soltron™ enzyme in your fuel is rendered inert. Further, there will be no adverse effect on your engine and the additive or biocide you have introduced should work as expected by its manufacturer because the performance of other products is not affected by Soltron™.

If you have any concerns regarding the stability of the fuel in your tank Soltron™ and Premier would advise that you contact either your marine engineer or the manufacturer or distributor of your preferred fuel treatment or additive

 

[sarabande]

so, Soltron is affected by other products, but does not affect (improve or otherwise qualify) their performance in return ? So what does it do ?


Do you get the feeling that their choice of (obligatory) fuel additive is linked to existing commercial relationships ?



FWIW, I reckon that any brand which insists on putting ™ after its name every time, has an identity problem.

 

[DAKA]

So what does it do ?

Here is a full report on what it does (qualified remark, after reading the report its more a summary of what it doesnt do !)

But I am sure someone will be alone to tell you the test wasnt a fair comparison because the sample was only left a few weeks and needed a few years to work

WARNING THIS IS A DOWNLOAD LINK pdf file

 

[pappaecho]

I also asked Premier marina about Soltron and got this:-


"The diesel fuel at Gosport is high sulphur marine diesel with no biodiesel content. Wessex Petroleum supply our fuel from Fawley refinery with a marine diesel branded as ‘Advanced Marine Diesel 1000’ which contains Soltron which is an advanced enzyme fuel technology which from what I gather from the leaflet I have here has been developed to neutralise bacterial growth."

So presumably if you buy Marine Diesel 1000, you get Soltron included, regardless of who sells it.

 

[bedouin]

Sounds as if their company lawyer has just cottoned on

Trying to head off loads of law suits I presume.

However I assume the reason Premier are doing this is to maintain the quality of the Diesel in their own tanks rather than out of any altruistic or commercial motive, so that means they must believe it works

 

[tinkicker0]

More like a phone call from the advertising standards peeps telling em to clear it up or else....

 

[DAKA]

More like a phone call from the advertising standards peeps telling em to clear it up or else....

Mr Bradshaw either reads these forums on a regular basis or one of his managers reads it and points him towards posts of interest.
He is an honourable man and wouldn't need any outside influence to put things right.

In my opinion we should be encouraging to make better decisions in our interests and not slanging his company off for putting things right so quickly.

 

[DAKA]

No so! the test was unfair because the lab that carried out the test was owned by the product that came out top - so the test results are dubious at best, and the test procedure was flawed.

Could be a coincidence but I know of 3 boats from just two pontoons near me that used the 'special' fuel and complained !

Last 4 years I knew of none apart from on this forum.

 

[calemonlaw]

Particularly odd is the point made that if there is Startron in your tank, the Soltron may not work properly. Receved wisdom has it that Startron IS Soltron.

 

[DAKA]

Particularly odd is the point made that if there is Startron in your tank, the Soltron may not work properly. Receved wisdom has it that Startron IS Soltron.

Yes but lets be honest, that is the one statement that I would agree with.........

if you have startron and soltron you will not notice any effect