If you own a modern turbo-diesel 4WD then what we’re about to tell you, will be plain scary. We don’t tell you this to alarm you, but rather to arm you with the knowledge that you need to ensure your pride and joy doesn’t end up on the back of a tow-truck. Every single week around Australia, dozens of modern common-rail 4x4s fall victim to poor quality diesel, and it’s not just in remote outback or bush service stations either. In fact, it’s more common to pick up a tank of dirty diesel from a suburban or city service station, and one single tank of dirty diesel is enough to destroy a fuel system and cause upwards of $10,000 of damage!

Thankfully there is a solution, and it comes in the form of the brilliant aftermarket fuel filter kit for 4x4s that Diesel Care have spent years refining. 4WD Supacentre now retails a huge range of vehicle-specific aftermarket fuel filter kits suitable for many popular 4WD wagons and utes, and it’s highly recommended that you invest in one of these kits so you don’t end up another statistic.

So why should you fit a Diesel Care fuel filter kit to your 4WD? Dirty diesel is in plague proportions around the country, and comes from two different sources. The first is rust, dirt and even algae that builds up in old tanks. Typically, this settles right at the bottom of the underground tanks at the service station, but when the tanks are being filled by a truck, this gunk stirs right up through the entire tank and can very easily make its way through the bowser into your vehicle.

The other reason why it’s so vital to protect yourself with a 4WD fuel filter kit is that water in diesel is a massive issue too. Water, when introduced into a modern common-rail diesel fuel injection system, will within a matter of days create serious amounts of rust within the system. By the stage that rust has formed, you’re looking at serious repair bills to rebuild injector pumps and replace injectors. On something like a V8 Landcruiser, with its eight injectors and complex injector pump, that can easily put the repair bill up at $10,000 or more. You’d be lucky to get away with a bill of less than $6,000 if you drove a four-cylinder turbo-diesel ute or wagon. That’s a repair bill no-one can afford!

Diesel Care fuel filter kits are available in either 30 micron, 5 micron or 2 micron formats depending on your vehicle. A 30 micron fuel filter kit is designed to fit before your factory fuel filter, and filter out the larger chunks of gunk that could make their way up towards your engine, prolonging the life of your factory fuel filter. A 5 micron fuel filter kit or even a 2 micron fuel filter kit are designed to run after your factory fuel filter, as a last line of defence before your injector pump and injectors. It’s up to you which 4WD fuel filter kit you choose, but it’s vital that you do fit one to your vehicle.

What makes the Diesel Care fuel filter kits brilliant is that they are designed to suit specific vehicles, and come with vehicle-specific brackets, hoses and clamps to make installation a breeze. Diesel Care have spent a lot of time engineering their kits to fit as easily as possible, so that as many 4WDers as possible will run them and protect their engines.

And here’s a final scary parting thought for you, if you’re wondering if you actually need an aftermarket fuel filter kit for your 4WD. Maybe you think you’ll be okay because you fill up from that brand-new service station that just got built. Industry practice is to fill the underground tanks with water when fitting them, and while most of that water is sucked out before the first fill, hundreds of litres of water is left in the bottom of the tank. The fuel companies assume that it’ll just dissipate with the first couple of complete fills of the underground tank, but where do you reckon it goes? That’s right, into our own fuel tanks when we fill up.

Do yourself and your pride and joy a favour. Fit a Diesel Care fuel filter kit from 4WD Supacentre!