Best Diesel?

DublinWriter

I've recently stopped using Applegreen, Topaz and Tesco diesel and as my car really does drive like a tractor on those brands.

So far I've found Maxol, Top and Esso much better in terms of overall mileage and performance.

Have I listened to one taxi driver too many? Is my brain playing tricks on me? Or could it be the case that there is a big variation in the qualities of diesel at the pumps?

Guy:Incognito

Why a Skoda Octavia of course.





Woops, wrong thread.

deandean

Nawww, BMW 1-series.

Oops, wrong thread.

I use Millers diesel fuel additive, I buy it cheap by the 5-litre can and always add it, e.g. 50mL in 50 litres. I buy the cheapest diesel I come across, sofa sogood.

Cionád

Driving conditions effect it too much to compare categorically, I'll post a few of my records here:

1998 Almera 2.0d, 190,000 miles

Location-------------MPG
Esso, Maynooth  	          47.064
Applegreen, Celbridge	        45.672
Top, Enfield		       45.572
Applegreen, Celbridge		47.220
Tesco, Maynooth	                48.135
Applegreen, Celbridge	 	47.506
Applegreen, Celbridge		48.687
Maxol, Mullingar	        47.896
Applegreen, Celbridge		47.079
Applegreen, Celbridge		46.173
Applegreen, Celbridge		50.693
Agip, Massif Central, FRANCE	37.201 (eaten up by the mountainous A75 motorway which the car struggled with lol)
Total, A75, FRANCE		46.904
Intermache,Vias, FRANCE          50.144
Applegreen, M1 North    	42.458 (mostly urban)
Esso , Richmond Rd	     43.158 (mostly urban)
Tesco, ClareHall		46.160

meathstevie

DublinWriter wrote: »

I've recently stopped using Applegreen, Topaz and Tesco diesel and as my car really does drive like a tractor on those brands.

So far I've found Maxol, Top and Esso much better in terms of overall mileage and performance.

Have I listened to one taxi driver too many? Is my brain playing tricks on me? Or could it be the case that there is a big variation in the qualities of diesel at the pumps?

When Topaz was still Statoil the same lorry delivered fuel to Tesco and to Statoil on the North Road. Can you imagine the practicalities of two different grades of diesel in the one lorry ?

r3nu4l

Cionád wrote: »

Driving conditions effect it too much to compare categorically, I'll post a few of my records here:

1998 Almera 2.0d, 190,000 miles

Just wondering are they trip computer recorded figures or brim-milometer-brim (manually recorded figures).

Also what bhp is that Almera 2.0d?

Cionád

r3nu4l wrote: »

Just wondering are they trip computer recorded figures or brim-milometer-brim (manually recorded figures).

Also what bhp is that Almera 2.0d?

Brimming it, manual calculations. Trip computer? - oooh la dee da, not in my Almera

It's a monstrous 73bhp, 0-60 in 16.3 :cool: