Winter Diesel

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drcarlos
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Winter Diesel

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Learned something new yesterday.

I didn't realise we had seasonal formulations of Derv.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_di ... ed_Kingdom

From November till March it's distributed to stop gelling at low temps.

Apparently causes lower MPG in the oil burners too.
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Mito Man
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I thought that was pretty common knowledge :lol: . I think it’s also one of the factors why diesel increases in price over winter too. The X5 which is mapped idles like crap on it.
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integrale_evo
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Re: Winter Diesel

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I knew it existed, I didn’t know we bothered in the uk.
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