Contaminated Diesel Caiguna

Submitted: Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 11:49

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Just crossed the nullabour. I believe we got a bad batch of fuel from Caiguna roadhouse. Anyone else had this. Car ran badly to Norseman. filled up there and by time at Esperance was running ok again.

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Reply By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:00

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:00

Oh Dear am heading for there on Wednesday.

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Follow Up By: Member - Ed. C. (QLD) - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 13:04

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 13:04

Approx. 637 km Norseman > Mundrabilla....
I believe this (Mundrabilla) is where you'd be aiming to fill ??

There's Cocklebiddy & Madura, if you think you may be going to be a little 'short'...

If you have a half-decent range you shouldn't have to even think about getting fuel at Caiguna :)

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Follow Up By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 14:01

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 14:01

Well I get an average of 5.7kpl so am filling up at Norseman and have 145 ltr

tanks

Was thinking of Caiguna as its cheaper.

Perhaps Madura will be the go

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Follow Up By: Member - Ed. C. (QLD) - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 14:38

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 14:38

You may wish to re-visit your own thread (73975) from just a few days ago ?

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Follow Up By: Member - Graham H (QLD) - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 16:54

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 16:54

I did , i have.

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Reply By: D200Dug- Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:31

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:31

Diesel or petrol ?

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Follow Up By: Fab72 - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:52

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:52

D200Dug....best you re-read the title of the post. Should be able to work it out from there.

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Reply By: DIO - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 18:46

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 18:46

Pretty serious allegation - seeing you've named the source. How do you know it was contaminated?

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Follow Up By: Snowy 3.0iTD - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 18:59

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 18:59

Well he said he 'believed' he had. And if your car was running fine, you fill up at a servo and it then runs rough for the whole tank worth, once you fill up again after a short period of time it runs fine, circumstancial evidence certainly points in the direction of contaminated fuel.

If you own a diesel vehicle you will have brought bad diesel at some stage, or just haven't been driving a diesel vehicle long enough.

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Follow Up By: AM - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 23:47

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 23:47

Snowy you pretty much well summed it up

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Reply By: Motherhen - Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 19:49

Monday, Nov 30, 2009 at 19:49

We were advised by someone who crossed a few days before us that Eucla had the cheapest fuel, so filled at Penong, Eucla then Norseman.

Was it petrol AM? While we were away, our daughter had a problem with the water supply pump as well as the quad bike following using ULP from the same can. Pump shop repairers said the breakdown was caused by "tarry" ULP and that there had been a bad batch - not confined to any one brand. Our local fuel supplier receptiojnist said they had heard of this. Meanwhile it cost us over $100 to get the pump fixed with considerable inconvenience, and the bike is still not running well (in fact i can't start it at all).

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