ed
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The garage near my old flat sold red. Not sure why though as it's a petrol station in the middle of Birmingham...
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Nick-S
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Originally posted by STEvieXE
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Originally posted by GSi_16v
id never put red in mine, full of shite
shite like what exactly??
u think farmers are gonna put "shite" into their 60k plus machines??
ive herd storys that its quite unrefined (sp), imo i just wudent run it on it
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Steve
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i wouldve thought the better reason not to run it would be because its illegal?
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Nick-S
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and that 
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Carl
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You do realise if you get caught running red diesel you will end up getting your car crushed.
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stan_the_man
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'it was like that when i bought the....'
'i didnt do.....'
'all my mates are.......'
i didnt realise there was a diff.......'
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Carl
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quote:
Originally posted by stan_the_man
'it was like that when i bought the....'
'i didnt do.....'
'all my mates are.......'
i didnt realise there was a diff.......'
(in the voice of Les Dennis/ or Vernon)
The 4 most said answers when watching your car getting crushed were.............
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STEvieXE
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quote:
Originally posted by Carl
You do realise if you get caught running red diesel you will end up getting your car crushed.
over here its a 500 quid fine
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by GSi_16v
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Originally posted by STEvieXE
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Originally posted by GSi_16v
id never put red in mine, full of shite
shite like what exactly??
u think farmers are gonna put "shite" into their 60k plus machines??
ive herd storys that its quite unrefined (sp), imo i just wudent run it on it
It's the same stuff you put in a car. It's just dyed red so you can distinguish it from white diesel. Farmers wouldn't put crap in thier machinary.
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pow
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Cant remember the last time my car(s) were ever checked for Red Diesel.
[Edited on 06-12-2007 by pow]
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Carl
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Originally posted by pow
Cant remember the last time my car(s) were ever checked for Red Diesel.
[Edited on 06-12-2007 by pow]
Neither can I but its sods law.
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Steve
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normally you get checked if you live on a farm or amongst it
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ed
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No you don't.
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Steve
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iv got quite a few farmer mates, several of them have had samples taken from the cars, i dont live on a farm and have never had a sample thats where i draw that conclusion from
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Carl
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I get what you mean Steve, it's not like they are going to pull you over and do a dip test whilst driving through a city centre, but still, if I had a car of any value I wouldn't do it.
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ShEp
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they puled me over to check my old corsa
it was a 1.6 petrol 
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pow
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Ive done thousands of miles in a diesel, plenty of attension from coppers, never ever ever been checked.
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Cole
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there is one 2 miles from me might try it me clio thats a 2000 reg so should be ok right
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willay
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
normally you get checked if you live on a farm or amongst it
I've never been checked, but then again isnt there something very distinctive when you run on red dev?
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pow
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Will, the smell...
its derv 
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Mertin
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Maybe its cause their a bunch of badgers steve?
My dads a farmers, hes never been stopped. usually its vans/jeeps they check but iv never seen them checking people. Never hear of them doing it much
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ed
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quote:
Originally posted by Steve
iv got quite a few farmer mates, several of them have had samples taken from the cars, i dont live on a farm and have never had a sample thats where i draw that conclusion from
I live on a farm. We have never had any fuel samples taken from our cars
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Toby
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yeah it has a distinctive smell when its burning
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Brett
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So, am I right in thinking you could put 50% diesel / 50% veg oil into your car (diesel obviously) and it'll run fine?
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whitter45
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cannot run my car on it
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