Tell us about your common rail diesel on B100

[Dr Mark]

Let's make a list of common rail vehicles on B100, along with any foibles or problems that may arise:
Here's mine:

Mercedes OM613 (W210 E320 and W220 S320).

Absolutely faultless, with no problems. Had to get the Cats removed, but that was pretty easy. Other than that no problem. Only differnce I've observed is that according to the fuel management system, it uses B100 at a greater rate than with dino

Mazda BT50 (2.5)

Runs ok if you drive it gently. If you plant it, sometimes the engine cuts out. It always restarts but the generic error light comes on. After a couple of days gentle driving it usually clears however.

Any others?

[smithw]

Re: Tell us about your common rail diesel on B100

i have a friend who has an HDI peugeot 406 hes been running it for around a year on B100 and it is never garaged so it does get cold in winter. He has not had a problem so far.

[Tony From West Oz]

Re: Tell us about your common rail diesel on B100

Can we all show how many Km each vehicle has traveled before using Biodiesel and since starting to use Biodiesel, whether you use B100 or blend with diesel, etc.
Please also advise any vehicle or ECU modifications (eg DPF delete)
This will assist us in determining the success or otherwise of the use of Biodiesel in that model.
I will start a new thread for used cooking oil in CRD vehicles.

[smithw]

Re: Tell us about your common rail diesel on B100

I bought a 306 hdi about a year ago and my wife has now got a 406 hdi and has done 30,000kms on 100% bio, no problems so far it also does 1400 km per tank so it runs sweet!

[Tim-HJ61]

I have a 2006 Peugeot 307 with the 2.0 litre HDI engine and the owners manual says it is able to tolerate B30. I carry a 10 litre container of B100 and add it to a one third tank of fuel and it has not caused grief yet - over a year. These engines have a chemical that is dosed into the fuel tank every time the fuel cap is removed and replaced and this assists the DPF to burn off correctly.

[smithw]

Ive had a 307 for about 18 months and about 10,000 km running on 100% bio. I had to repair the vehicle, as it was not running and it had been to a number of repair shops and they had given up.
I got it going and it threw up the dpf fault before I even put bio in it. was going to clean I so I removed it and someone had drilled a hole in it I got a remap from the UK and deleted the DPF and EGR and the car runs great.
That said the build quality is crap, and I would not recommend the vehicle as there are a lot of plastic parts on the engine that are designed to fail

[ruby2]

trying to find my way around site

[ruby2]

Wonder if some body can give me information on a problem am now having.
Have been making biodiesel for 10 years plus, no problems after I switched to potassium hydroxide.
Vehicles using biodiesel 93 nissan navaro 4 wheel drive ,260,000klms on clock when purchased,now done 550,000klms engine a bit tired but ok body US.
Couple of tractors 3& 4 cylinders but lost them down hills consequently end of them.
A mitsubishi L2E 2 cylinder water cooled pump motor, 4000 plus hours now out of action. Question mark what caused failure, still have to investigate.( usually ran 10-12 hrs when started)
A 2011 Nissan navaro for wheel drive( not a bush basher) had done 160,000,now about 330,000klms, approximately 18 months ago it was embarrassing to drive more smoke than a steam train repaired by specialist diesel workshop ( $8000 later new injectors etc) was advised not to use biodiesel as injectors were carboned up.
Had problems with a yanmar fire fighting ( aircooled) setup which was also used for irrigation after approximately 3-400 hours no compression, repaired , rings had all carboned up.
Purchased a yanmar copy 300 hrs approximately no compression returned to sydney under warrantee rings all carboned up as they sent piston back with it.
Purchased a 2nd one as quickest way to get water as supply was urgent,installed 300 hours same thing no compression.
Reinstalled 1st motor but is expensive to run on fossil diesel.
Oil is filtered heated 20% methanol, glycerine drained twice , washed , air bubbled strained through sock filters 50 micron & 10 micron always keep a sample as reference
no residue even in temperatures down to zero
Am apprehensive in using biofuel in these motors until I've got it sorted, also using in a Case 60 tractor @ 5:1 prefer to use 100% but don't want to stuff that up.
Thank you for any advice>

[smithw]

Not sure what to tell you Ive been making bio since 2000 and never had anything like that happen. I know the EGR can introduce alot of carbon into the engine, Ive deleted all my engines. Posibley there is an issue with the engine oil your running, or you leaving the oil changes too long.

[ruby2]

Thanks for reply ,oil changes done on regular basis, running 15-40 diesel oil(castrol) was using valvaline but supplier has changed brands.