Following on from my posts in the cetane booster thread, some of you may now that I’ve been using the Millers diesel ecomax additive in my Touran and have been keeping the bottle in the oil top-up bag in the boot:
I am aware this is non-A2 content but I intend to do the same with Audrey when she comes back into the family full-time, so I though this may still be of interest to some here.
Anyway, although I’m seeing enough good results on the Touran for it to be worth the effort to me (one assumes the effect will be at least the same on Audrey - to be discovered), one thing that always bugged me was the design of the bottle - no matter how careful I was, I ended up spilling a few drops down the side, which meant that even when inside a plastic re-sealable bag instead of the supermarket bag pictured above - then stowed inside the top-up bottle bag - the Millers bottle would always stink the car out. Clearly I needed a better solution.
First, I thought a preloaded syringe with a bung on the end might be a good idea, but this was swiftly discounted on the grounds that a syringe that can hold 55-60ml as needed each time would be too long to fit in the oil bag, also I didn’t know whether the seals in the syringes I saw would be sufficiently chemically-stable so as not to be dissolved by the Millers.
Whilst browsing Amazon searching with keywords like “long-neck small bottle”, something caught my eye:
Perfect! These squeezable machine oilers hold 120 ml - perfect for both the Touran (which takes 55ml of additive per tank) and Audrey (35-40ml), have a graduated scale on the side so I can accurately meter each dose and crucially, a nice long cranked neck made of steel that I can use to push open the filler flap, complete with a screw cap on the end: This should mean I can accurately meter a dose of Millers and not have it dribble down the neck and bottle - plus two of them should easily fit in the top-up oil bag, which will give me 4 tankfuls on the Touran or 6 in Audrey - hooray!
So a few days later they arrived.
They seemed as good as I’d hope at first glance, however one of my criteria was of course that they must not leak the liquid as although they will be stored in the top-up bag upright, they might get squeezed due to the load in the boot shifting round corners and resting on the bag. When I tested one by filling it with water and squeezing it with the cap done up tight, the metal nozzle cap (which has no sealing washer built into it) leaked.