Diesel Quality

Having a CRD too for a couple of years now, I've been surprised to find that I've not really suffered because of bad fuel anywhere I've filled up from. I tend to try and buy from large name-brand (Shell, Mobil, etc) truck stops and only on occaision have had to fill up at little country town pumps. The motor has always handled the unknown juice well, and I put that down to highly-computerised engine management being able to compensate for bad quality to a degree. I've checked my water trap a couple of times to find it empty - so I've been lucky enough to be able to avoid the dodgy fuel thus far.

Hi There bozo, I only fill up at the BP now. I have 89 2.8 diesel d/cab toyota and noticed a difference between fuels. Not a major diff but seems to start better unless it's just my imagination, and to be less smoke when first firing up. I should also warn people if reading this forum and live in the western suburbs of blacktown NSW don't fill up at the mobil on the corner of buggarbee rd and blacktown rd as they have had bad fuel lately resulting in one lady that I know of having to replace the pump on her 04 turbo hilux. The fuel was like mud it's now costing her $3500.00 to have a new pump until she can prove the bad batch of fuel. Toyota have confirmed that it was the fuel as sample's were taken. Be wary Take Care Vitara

yes dont touch bogas in gunnadah did i say that on a serious note i get mine where there is a big turnover of diesel and i change my filters every 5000 ks i know thats a short time but better than leaving it to late and it works for me

I use BP whenever I can (here in Kadina I can use my Woolies discount voucher to get 4 cents off, even though there is a Woolies garage only 200 meters away).

I also believe in the merits of the Morison DeBug unit I have fitted before the CAV filter which I've used to replace the OE filter. The Morison's unit is a simple alloy bowl with 3 large magnets in it.....any sand, grit or algae don't get past it. When I do change my CAV unit after about every 20,000klms, it is always very clean and I find i could have left it there even longer.

i filled up at shell dubbo about 2 years ago on diesel in summer got to narromine
temp gauge was over high and used that much fuel,got only 200km out of 50litres

I always found that BP was the best (most consistant and made the best power) and Caltex was very average. I used the Hilux to tow my racecar up the highway and the Caltex fuel quite often stopped me going over 80kph. With BP I could sit on 110, bit embarasing when the racecar had Caltex down both sides!

Mark

Now that low sulfur diesel has come in there are only a handfull of refineries producing it so it is probably all the same. When I worked for the BP distributor in Alice a few years ago BP, Mobil, Caltex and Woolies were all getting their diesel out of the Mobil refinery in Adelaide (I believe this has since changed, don't know if that refinery still operates). Diesel in Darwin was coming out of Singapore regardless of retailer. Storage will be the factor affecting fuel quality and this will vary from site to site regardless of retailer.