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TUNING YOU
STRAIGHT: THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT DIESEL
EACH time the price of fuel goes up, people ask about buying a
diesel. For even a small modern diesel engine is as frugal as an old scooter but
with the power to move up KZN’s steep hills.
The catches are that
modern diesels need clean fuel, or 50 parts per measure, and diesel prices have
no regulated ceiling.
Hence the sellers can
and do charge what the market can bear.
Finally, diesels are
more expensive to service than petrol, and if things go wrong, they go wrong
dramatically.
Older diesels that can
burn 500 ppm diesel can tank up at truck stops. These are sometimes up to a
R1/litre cheaper than the highway pitstops. — Editor.
