Hi Folks,

Just thought I'd let you all in on my new adventure. We've just got a Skoda Octavia 1.9TDI, had it for.... just over a week now. Already done more than 1500km.

The first time I filled it up it was with dino diesel, but on Saturday morning I filled it with B100 from my usual servo in Gosford. I did 150,000km on the biodiesel from this servo over the last 3.5 years, and the servo has awards for clean tanks and fuel storage quality.

So far, the first tank has been lovely and smooth in the 1.9 PD TDI, with a little more bottom end torque, a bit less top end and quieter idle. Fuel economy appears to be pretty much the same if not better, but since I inly did ~800km on the first tank its not really representative.

Anyway, I'm sure some of you think I'm crazy but I'm 99% certain that this fuel is AOK in the skoda. In my recent research, i've found that the standards set out for biodiesel in australia either meet or exceed the necessary european standard for biodiesel that VW will warrant, and as such because I've used the fuel fromthis particular service station for so long with absolutely no problem, I'm happy to run it in the PD engine.

Wish me luck!