ARIF

One of two possibilities, really - Here in the UK agricultural diesel is tax-free (very low tax?) and in order to prevent normal people using it, it has a red dye added ('red diesel'). There's a market and an illegal industry in processing this stuff to remove the dye - so that it's less risky to use/much easier to sell to the non-farmer - as chances of getting caught much less if fuel isn't red! So sometimes these processes lead to dodgy fuel, essentially. Running it through cat-litter, was one amateur solution apparently!! So secondly - there's the organised-crime thing of getting proper diesel, and diluting or adulterating it with something much cheaper than diesel - whatever necessary - in order to increase its volume. This is then sold to small petrol station outlets, who can be tempted by this nice source of cheap diesel, which can be sold at normal (extortionate) pump prices. Often when these fuels destroy engines - the connection is hardly ever made, with which fuel station one might have happened to use in the recent past. That's laundered fuel!

(My second post on this new Board!) I'm precisely at the same point with my 2002 TD5 - rear cross-member surface rust appearing now. Aaargh!! I certainly like the idea of using underbody wax - but does/will this not come off on clothes? When rummaging about in the back of my Landie, when still standing outside, but leaning well in to the load-space - the fronts of my legs are leaning quite heavily into the cross-member. Any experience? Is 28 degrees Celsius enough to start making it gummy? I've just bought about 5 cans of Dinitrol '4641' (IIRC). And then their brown cavity wax, too. (From Frost's) Thanks in advance, all...! Arif

ER!! Can someone tell me what's going on here?!?! I feel as though I'm in the Twilight Zone - or that the Langoliers are on their way...! I don't/didn't frequent the LRE forum all that often - and do recall having caught wind of some 'politics' going on - but is it possible for someone to summarise what's gone on?!?! Like - is this whole thing stop-gap, what's the long term? etc, etc?! Thanks in advance!! Arif