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[Paul223]

Nah your having a laugh, check out any two stroke bike and have a look how much choke it produces, a dpf will block prematurely with the slight amounts of engine oil burnt with the wrong non low ash/saps type oil used. You'd be a fool to use two stroke oil on a vehicle fitted with a dpf

Edited August 28, 2013 by Paul223

[steve_b_wales]

Nah your having a laugh, check out any two stroke bike and have a look how much choke it produces, a dpf will block prematurely with the slight amounts of engine oil burnt with the wrong non low ash/saps type oil used. You'd be a fool to use two stroke oil on a vehicle fitted with a dpf

How can I tell if my Freelander has a DPF?

[Fisherman Mike]

My father in Law worked 45 years man and boy for a well known UK oil refiner...he was an industrial chemist..."the only thing you need to put in a gearbox, engine or diff is a good synthetic oil."

 

"Additives can do more harm than good when added to some oils and 99.99% of them don't work"

[Fib new]

The engine-research centre of a well known German car manufacurer has conducted some long term tests of diesel additives to find out whether any one of them will have an impact on the long term reliability of the diesel engine components. This introduction to explain were my information comes from.

The results of this research: any diesel additive of any manufacturer presently on the market is not worth the money!

 

BUT: 2-stroke oil, which we use in our motor saws, lawn mower or in 2-stroke motor engines has shown to have an extreme positive impact on diesel engines, if such 2-stroke oil is added to the diesel in a homoeophatic dosis of 1:200. In practical terms: 0,300 litre of 2-stroke oil into the 70l diesel tank. The 2-stroke oil will be absorbed by the diesel (emulsion) and grease every moving part of the high pressure pump and the injectors.

 

Besides this, the 2-stroke oil will keep the diesel engine clean, as it burnes cleaner as the diesel itself.

 

In other words, the 2-stroke oil has a much lower ash-content as diesel, when burned. This proven fact delays the DPF (diesel particulate (soot) filter) to clogg, and the "burn free" process of the DPF will be much less.

[Livefast123]

I don't bother with additives, changing the oil every 6,000 miles does the job for me.

 

Mk 4 Golf 2.0 GTi - 200,000 miles

Mk 6 Fiesta 1.25 - 131,000 miles

 

And still sounding like they left the factory!

[Mike737]

My father in Law worked 45 years man and boy for a well known UK oil refiner...he was an industrial chemist..."the only thing you need to put in a gearbox, engine or diff is a good synthetic oil."

 

"Additives can do more harm than good when added to some oils and 99.99% of them don't work"

 

Yes, but you're NOT adding it to the oil, you're adding it to the diesel fuel, at a much lower concentration than a 2 stroke bike runs it, which relies on the 2so totally for lubrication. It's added at 200 or 300:1, not 40:1. (And a LOT cheaper than changing fully synthetic oil every 6,000 miles...) My son runs it in his Pug 407, with a DPF, and no ill effects, just quieter and improved fuel consumption

 

Mike.