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Old 5th July 2008, 00:13   #7 (permalink)
londonirish
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Car: Citroen C8 2.2HDI 173hp Exclusive Auto
Country of origin:
France

Kalleh, I have read the same that taxi fleet in London will be fed on Bio-diesel B50 as of Jan 09.
I do not believe that Citroen will refuse to sell a few C8 because of the fuel used by such a "corporate" customer...

Read that Audi A8 with the 3.0TDI runs without issue on B90 in Deutschland... So why would VW be different from PSA of Ford who share the same engine range (almost).

The Galaxy and S-Max of some minicab's (private taxi) are already running on bio-diesel in Southampton and Newcastle. They also use the 1.6tdci and 2.oTDCI which (correct me if I am wrong) are the same as the 1.6HDI and 2.0HDI...

at £108 a fuel tank it is getting a bit on the dear side.
At the same time I will change the fuel filter at 10000 miles isntead of 20000 miles at least at the beginning to see what impact the biodiesel has on the engine.

The tail gate sun curtain is not available even as an extra. I checked again...

Thanks for the tip where to find the car manual in english.

Booze trip to France next w-e to refill before the summer parties ... We will refill at €1.30/l instead of £1.30/l... Difference is around 25% at present...

Has anyone tried to change the air filter and put something like a K&N or similar ?
Have seen the positive effect on 407 2.0HDI but do not know impact on our new engine... Lower consumption ? Better response ?
Tips anyone ?
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