Thought the old land rovers had a compartment below the passenger seat and you put a second tank in there for the Ribena and kept the legit tank for the white stuff...40 years ago a guy I knew used to do landscape gardening and he had a diesel land rover every other week he got pulled and tested for red diesel he got that sick of it he traded it in for a Daihatsu 4 track and they hardly ever bothered him he let me use it once to go pick some gear up . it was a beast
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Pete.
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Hardly matters where the tank is when they take a sample from the injector pump.
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Last time I had a fuel check in the Transit, I was running it on biodiesel which I'd added some ATF to.
Made it a nice red colour, which flummoxed the Revenue men as agri-diesel in Ireland is green
Of course, I might have been running it on red from the North for all they knew.
Anyway, never heard any more about it.
i bang some atf or 2 stroke in mine too it turns it red!
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havnt seen or heard of them checking vehicles in this area for years.
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why do you do this for?
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to lubricate the pump veg oil thinned with petrol lacks lubrication for the injection pump
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ah i see, that makes sense
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2 stroke's probably ok as it's designed to be used as a burnt additive. But all the receipts I get for lubricant oils clearly say they're not to be used as road or heating fuel (as they're not taxed as such)
It would be very petty to be charged for this but you never know.
It would be very petty to be charged for this but you never know.
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Last time I had a fuel check in the Transit, I was running it on biodiesel which I'd added some ATF to.
Made it a nice red colour, which flummoxed the Revenue men as agri-diesel in Ireland is green
Of course, I might have been running it on red from the North for all they knew.
Anyway, never heard any more about it.
I used to buy 205ltr drums of diesel in the 80s that was green. Always wondered where it came from
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Probably nowadays but maybe not 30 years ago...
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that was dip the tank and a scraping from the exhaust
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They regularly dip the sheep too....
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Baaaar........!
Place I get my welding gas from used to sell red diesel to anyone that rocked up. We used to get it in jerry cans for the narrow boat. Not had the boat for years but I've heard that you're not supposed to use red for the motive power of a boat any more but you can still use it for heating. If the heater draws from the main fuel tank then you need to keep records of how much of each you shove in there.
I've never been dipped and never seen a test station set up anywhere locally - strikes me as odd as it's a pretty rural area with lots of farms that will no doubt be using it in all sorts of equipment so I'd think it's as common around here as anywhere else.
Nowadays they'd be on a loser anyway - I got rid of my last oil burner a few years back and only have petrol motors now (yes even the Land Rover).
I've never been dipped and never seen a test station set up anywhere locally - strikes me as odd as it's a pretty rural area with lots of farms that will no doubt be using it in all sorts of equipment so I'd think it's as common around here as anywhere else.
Nowadays they'd be on a loser anyway - I got rid of my last oil burner a few years back and only have petrol motors now (yes even the Land Rover).
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a lot of farmers were using tractor diesel for there heating . till a lot of them got caught out
Electric cars are so cheap to run because there is no fuel duty to pay. like legally running your car on red!
Most people who get caught are dropped in it.
My mate's father - who died a few years ago - ran his land Rovers on Kero. That is in the days before it was dyed yellow. He had a 2000L tank in his garden. And yet his house was gas! He got away with it for 20 years - then he got divorced. His wife reported him - rather unfair as she had enjoyed many camping holidays in the Land Rovers all over the UK!
He had a knock on the door one day from HMRC. Bloke was quite pleasant - I bet you know why we are here he said. Mate's dad admitted everything. Lucky for him he changed oil suppliers 2 years earlier so they only got him for that. Not taken to court or anything - just told to pay back about £2k. He was on a low income at the time so they agreed to £50 a month!
A few weeks ago an ex employer of mine - a likeable chappie car mad - told me he was pulled along with about 50 others - when he went one Saturday to fill up at a fuel supplier with red. He had a few cans in the boot and half a tank full. They had been watching the fuel supplier for a while. £500 on the spot fine!
Most people who get caught are dropped in it.
My mate's father - who died a few years ago - ran his land Rovers on Kero. That is in the days before it was dyed yellow. He had a 2000L tank in his garden. And yet his house was gas! He got away with it for 20 years - then he got divorced. His wife reported him - rather unfair as she had enjoyed many camping holidays in the Land Rovers all over the UK!
He had a knock on the door one day from HMRC. Bloke was quite pleasant - I bet you know why we are here he said. Mate's dad admitted everything. Lucky for him he changed oil suppliers 2 years earlier so they only got him for that. Not taken to court or anything - just told to pay back about £2k. He was on a low income at the time so they agreed to £50 a month!
A few weeks ago an ex employer of mine - a likeable chappie car mad - told me he was pulled along with about 50 others - when he went one Saturday to fill up at a fuel supplier with red. He had a few cans in the boot and half a tank full. They had been watching the fuel supplier for a while. £500 on the spot fine!
I've been dipped three times in my Disco. I'd never risk using Red despite keeping a big bowser of it on the farm. They not only do you for the lost tax, they confiscate your vehicle.
Not usually!
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I remember my dad having the tank of his SII dipped, probably early 70's, he was lucky as occasionally he would get "paid" in red diesel for running errands for the company he worked for.
