Thread: Fuel additive for TD5

The Chemtech one seems to be the one that people speak highly of.

Thanks Slunnie, appreciate your help.

Cheers, Wal

Chemtech is sold as a fuel additive, not specifically an injection cleaner, although it indicates this as one of its benefits. (all of the products in the market seem to be sold in a similar vein). It is easy to get - at SCA and others, same as fuel doctor etc. I've never used Chemtech, but I have used fuel doctor which is good for what it's sold to treat.

For petrol engines, there is a toyota product that is the bee's knees, but it's $20+ for a bottle and you have to use the fuel within a short period of time, as it is a very good cleaner.

For my money, I recommend and use the cost effective fuel additive "CleanPower", as well as some of their other products, since I got my TD5 at 118k; it works a treat - a 250ml bottle lasts about a year; 10ml treats 40 litres if you haven't got it already in the tank, otherwise 10ml is good for 80 litres.. Have also used in the rest of my petrol vehicles to clean the fuel system - works really well, like all of their other products that I have used.

I recommended CEM's Flushing Oil Concentrate to a mate of mine with a Toyota Landcruiser diesel, as I used it originally in another mate's Hilux diesel. The oil is still clean after a couple of thousand k's in the Landcruiser, whereas previously it was black straight after the change (same as Hilux, I originally bought the product to see if it lived up to its claims, as the Hilux is used on a farm and lacked power, due to age and condition). My mate drove his Landcruiser around for a while and went for a trip to his daughter's. Said to his son-in-law "come and have a look at this" and checked the oil with the sil. The sil thought he had bought a new engine.

generally NO...

with the exception of an antifungal diesel snot killer every now and then (Usually the 50K service/yearly/1000l whichever comes first) some of the fuel additives can attack the plastics in the fuel lines or the rubber in the seals.

The chemtech additive that people are talking about is a dewatering antifungal additive and is very good at its job (it also aids in stabilizing the diesel for long term storage)

Hello Disco58

'Fuel Doctor' , a full bottle in the tank every 12 months or so is good, followed by regular use of two stroke in the fuel.

Cheers,

Jason

My mechanic has me run Wurth additive in & speaks highly of it.

i have been running a 200-1 mix of castrol t 2 stroke oil in mine with some excellent results on a trip not that noticable around town and a couple of mates with older 4 cyl d2's have been getting great results too in far better economy and quiter motor

Originally Posted by johnb44

i have been running a 200-1 mix of castrol t 2 stroke oil in mine with some excellent results on a trip not that noticable around town and a couple of mates with older 4 cyl d2's have been getting great results too in far better economy and quiter motor

See these are the kind Of testemonials that you can really rely on...