Filling up vans

[Lounge Lizard]

Not supposed to use the expensive diesel either,just the standard stuff,as they get charged a cheaper price for it.

Plenty of 'red diesel' about on the farms.

[dave72]

Only I use the van so I can only moan at myself

Saying that, I usually come back from my day off to the bloody re-gen light on

Our main office has its own diesel pump, but our SPDO is 8 miles away

[Lounge Lizard]

Only I use the van so I can only moan at myself

Saying that, I usually come back from my day off to the bloody re-gen light on

Our main office has its own diesel pump, but our SPDO is 8 miles away

Some SPDOs have fuel cards for the local garage.
Some SPDOs fill up from the diesel pump at the main Delivery Office.

[Bahia Feliz]

I usually come back from my day off to the bloody re-gen light on

What is the 're-gen' light please?

[DGP1]

I usually come back from my day off to the bloody re-gen light on

What is the 're-gen' light please?

It's only the new vans that suffer from this, it's the diesel particulate burner in the exhaust that needs re generated every few hours/days.

[dave72]

I usually come back from my day off to the bloody re-gen light on

What is the 're-gen' light please?

Fiat Doblo vans need the engine cleaning every 80 miles-ish. Takes 10 minutes for it to do, revs the engine 2000 for 10 minutes. Looks very professional parked up streetside with then bonnet up and it revving its nuts off

All because they wouldn't pay for the £100 filter

[rubberbond]

Our vans are filled every Tuesday and Friday so are never low on fuel

Ours only needs filling every 3-4 weeks, it's 5 years old and has done less than 12,000 miles!

Would you buy it?

[rubberbond]

I usually come back from my day off to the bloody re-gen light on

What is the 're-gen' light please?

Fiat Doblo vans need the engine cleaning every 80 miles-ish. Takes 10 minutes for it to do, revs the engine 2000 for 10 minutes. Looks very professional parked up streetside with then bonnet up and it revving its nuts off

All because they wouldn't pay for the £100 filter

Or buy petrol vans.

[toomuchcoke]

Fiat Doblo vans need the engine cleaning every 80 miles-ish. Takes 10 minutes for it to do, revs the engine 2000 for 10 minutes. Looks very professional parked up streetside with then bonnet up and it revving its nuts off

Does depend on usage, if you're lucky and get a nice 70mph^W60mph blast down a dual carriageway at the right point it'll clean itself. Worst case it happens just after you've done a large amount of walking on a cold day and first you have to manually rev it to 2-3000rpm to get the engine warmed up enough that it will re-gen. Plus I'm sure everyone always put the bonnet up first right?

All because they wouldn't pay for the £100 filter

Probably wasted more than that in fuel by now, but I don't think Royal Mail management really get the concept of "total cost of ownership"? (Though if I'm being fair, I'll concede they're hardly unique in this.)

[dave72]

Fiat Doblo vans need the engine cleaning every 80 miles-ish. Takes 10 minutes for it to do, revs the engine 2000 for 10 minutes. Looks very professional parked up streetside with then bonnet up and it revving its nuts off

Does depend on usage, if you're lucky and get a nice 70mph^W60mph blast down a dual carriageway at the right point it'll clean itself. Worst case it happens just after you've done a large amount of walking on a cold day and first you have to manually rev it to 2-3000rpm to get the engine warmed up enough that it will re-gen. Plus I'm sure everyone always put the bonnet up first right?

My van is on retention and I take it down the motorway everyday there and back and hit 60mph on a 15 mile round trip. Still needs re-genning every week

We've also tried the revving, still no joy

Oh, and the re-gen can only be done when the temp gauge is halfway. I know you're supposed to do the re-gen straight away but I do it at the end of the shift while emptying the van off now

[maisymoo04]

Doesn't bother me I just bang £107 in me van every week using me shell drivers card ,points make prizes spesh when u put nitro diesel in triple points

Just a little up date on this nitro diesel chaps got pulled in the other day by dim , maisy a email has been sent from fleet services , had my reg the lot CAN YOU PLEASE TELL THE DELIVERY PERSON TO STOP USING NITRO DIESEL TO FILL UP HIS VAN AS THIS IS COSTING THE BUISNESS , COULD YOU PLEASE USE REGULER DIESEL THANKYOU there goes me triple points