Diesel price rise to hit the Broads?

[RealWindmill]

Best not to use road diesel in your boat unless all the fuel lines have been modified to use it.

How so, sir.

[Woodsafloat]

Hello Woodsafloat,

Welcome to the NBN forum from Tan & myself.

Please check out the following link to our information pages with regards to the current fuel prices and locations on the Broads.

Regards

Alan

Thanks for replying and the warm welcoming, but I would expect nothing less from this lovely part of the country. Why is fuel more expensive on the southern half?? 

Maybe competition and so on, either way I believe that if there was an information page, or link about prices of fuel it would encourage boat yards to be a bit more competitive to its customers, be they hire of private.  

[MauriceMynah]

Realwindmill,

Road diesel has a percentage of BioDiesel (FAME) in it. Some, perhaps many, of older engines have seals that can rot when in constant ccontact with FAME. This can, and I emphasise "can" lead to a frightening experience called "Runaway engine" where the sump oil finds it's way into the cylinder allowing the engine to use it asw fuel. Tjhis effectively puts your engine on full throttle with the throttle control being ineffective.

Have your engine checked out by a reputable engineer to find out more.

Best wishes and welcome. MM

[RealWindmill]

Thanks for your reply and info MM.

What you describe is what I seem to observe from most moboats on the Broads all the time. That is either stationary or at "full throttle" in a tearing hurry to get to the next mooring !!!

Bob

[Oddfellow]

There are very few suppliers of "FAME" Free fuel. Whether you use road diesel or from a yard, it's very similar in the main unless you KNOW that the supplier you are using is the FAME free or really low FAME stuff. 

This stuff definitely attacks the seals in the Lucas CAV pumps used on BMC engines. I suspect it's similar on Perkins too. A recon pump with new seals that are not eroded by the FAME is expensive. (We can get these problems sorted for you if you need) 

 

[JennyMorgan]

I noticed, today, that diesel prices are once again dearer than petrol at my local supplier.

[Oddfellow]

Same price at Sainsburys, Pound Lane tonight. 

[JennyMorgan]

Web prices for Sunday:

UK Petrol Prices for Sunday 27th September 2015

	Avg	Min	Max
Unleaded	109.68p	103.9p	124.9p
Diesel	110.13p	104.9p	129.9p
Super Unleaded	119.62p	107.9p	139.9p
Premium Diesel	121.93p	113.9p	159.9p
LPG	59.40p	49.7p	65.9p