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To: Ouderkirk

Well Talked to my dealership service department today and they do not recommend it and say that it will hurt my engine. Unfortunately there is no other diesel in the area. So I am gain to have to trade in my Golf TDI with about 35K on it.


59 posted on 09/02/2015 4:38:05 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Chickensoup

I would think that bio-diesel is probably OK to use in your VW during the summer, but would be hesitant to use it much past November as the risk of Gelling is significant.

You can mix Bio with Regular but I am not sure how much kerosene you can add to it to keep it form gelling at sub-zero temps.

The trouble with bio-fuels is that they don’t have the same BTU content as the stuff that comes out of the ground.

I can’t imagine that you have all that much bio-fuels in your area unless it’s mandated by your state. There is none of the bio fuels in my area, Western NY. The state mandates E10 gasoline, and they do mandate that the pumps be posted with the entanol content, and methanol too. So that was my concern with the removal of the E10 label form the pump.


60 posted on 09/02/2015 4:59:08 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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