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Originally Posted by layback40
You are getting water in your tank or there has been some in there for a long time.
Condensation?
Moisture sucked in via the breather?
Filled the tank in the rain?
Bad quality diesel?
High humidity?
Washing the car around the filler with a high pressure cleaner.
Do you ever find water in the base of your fuel filter?
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Hi Layback,
I suppose moisture could get sucked in through the breather but is it avoidable?
Possibly bad quality diesel. I usually fill up from either Shell or BP but I stopped using BP a few months ago because I found black stuff floating around in my diesel. It was similar in texture to lemon bits floating around in a fresh squeezed lemon juice, but black. I kept a jerry can of this bad stuff in the hope of having it tested.
It does get humid here on the coast.
Only use high pressure when cleaning the underbody and I've just fitted a nice new blue coloured seal on my filler cap from Pelicanparts.
Just emptied the contents of my main filter into a glass jar but no sign of water.
Turnover is quite high-a tank of diesel lasts me about 6 days.