best diesel fuel

illegalpower

I've been using apple green since i got my diesel and thought everything was fine. It was always a fair bit cheaper that the other garages. Last saturday i filled up in the shell garage near me out of convience. It was marked as as "clean diesel" and i have to say my engine is running alot quiter than it was before. Maybe it has a higher ceten level but it is a noticable difference. It was 2c a litre more but i think i'll be buying it again.

I should add that i'm not saying there's anything wrong with applegreen diesel just that i've found the shell stuff better. Anyone have any info on this

barron

I think those 2c are worth it, my brother also started to use shell diesel and he say that he sees some improvement.

Twin-go

Where are ye getting Shell Diesel lads? Thought Shell was no-more here?

illegalpower

I live in arklow and there's a small shell garage just before the new shopping centre, think it actually may be topaz fuel with the old shell sign on the garage

illegalpower

yep just checked it online and it's now run by topaz, so anyone else have any other experence with their clean diesel

clean diesel, fresh fruit, cold beer etc etc

illegalpower

RoverJames wrote: »

clean diesel, fresh fruit, cold beer etc etc

Maybe so but like i said there's a noticable difference

MarkR

"Clean" is just a marketing term in these cases. I think that once you stay with the main suppliers that there is little difference in the diesel fuels.

I'd love to be corrected, as I buy a lot of diesel!

I would recommend dipetane as something you can try. It's a tenner a bottle, and each bottle treats 200 litres of fuel. I use it all the time now, after it was recommended to me by several mechanics.

It doesn't smell like some of the other additives (that millers stuff stinks the car out when I used it), and I feel the car is running smoother now.

illegalpower

i was using the wynnes stuff as it says it's compatable with high pressure modern diesel fuel systems as i've heard some of the other brands are not and may actually damage injectors. is the dipetane ok for modern diesels

Cionád

illegalpower wrote: »

Maybe so but like i said there's a noticable difference

based on 5 days of driving?

There are so many other factors involved - traffic, weather, driving style etc. I've been monitoring my diesel usage for the last 3 years, manually calculating fuel consumption from a variety of companies. I have noticed no correlation based on branding.

illegalpower

I never metioned mpg or usage only that the engine is running alot quiter, read my first post

Cionád

illegalpower wrote: »

I never metioned mpg or usage only that the engine is running alot quiter

Apologies.

It may be a placebo effect? My engine sounds like a tractor no matter what I feed it.

reilig

I find that I get a lot more miles out of Esso or Texaco than out of tesco, apple green, top or topasz. The car appears to run a lot smoother either of them. maybe its just a perception, but I'll always fill at Esso or Texaco when I get the chance - and I try to stick to 1 or 2 specific stations, but sometimes I'm on the road for work and I have to fill up in another place. The car will do 1020km from full tank to light on using a tank of Esso or Texaco but it will struggle to cross 980km on any of the other brands. Have been keeping fairly good records of it since 2006. Used to find Statoil diesel the worst of all. My car wouldn't make 940km on a tank of it.

illegalpower

illegalpower wrote: »

I never metioned mpg or usage only that the engine is running alot quiter, read my first post

Whenever I hoover out my car I'm certain it runs that bit better too

illegalpower

Mine sounds like a tractor too but i really did notice a reduction in noise, i was quite surprised. i havent noticed any better fuel ecomomy but like you say that would take a long time to realise.

keithclancy

Same in all of them, do around 4000km/month

Shell, Texaco, Aral, Total, De Haan .... no dicernable difference.

Shell have been selling 'special' diesel for a while... what a crock.

I think the difference might be in your tyres, 5 psi off and i'm doing 5.8 instead of 5.3.

Plus stuff in the boot, people, cold weather etc, to many variables.

illegalpower

Like i said i'm not talking about mpg or usage but a reduction in engine noise, read the first post

pajo1981

illegalpower wrote: »

Like i said i'm not talking about mpg or usage but a reduction in engine noise, read the first post

Looks like you'll have to pick up a dB meter to convince this lot.

Boards motors is hardcore-what were you thinking?

opinion guy

keithclancy wrote: »

I think the difference might be in your tyres, 5 psi off and i'm doing 5.8 instead of 5.3.

Are you saying that with softer tires you are doing better mpg ? That seems counterintuitive!

keithclancy

opinion guy wrote: »

Are you saying that with softer tires you are doing better mpg ? That seems counterintuitive!

5.8 litres/100 instead of 5.3/100

yeppydeppy

I read somewhere that all the diesel / petrol in Ireland comes from the same place? all the trucks for the different companies line up and fill their tankers?

illegalpower

yeppydeppy wrote: »

I read somewhere that all the diesel / petrol in Ireland comes from the same place? all the trucks for the different companies line up and fill their tankers?

Except the stuff that's in the unmarked tankers;)

opinion guy

keithclancy wrote: »

5.8 litres/100 instead of 5.3/100

Gotcha now

L1011

yeppydeppy wrote: »

I read somewhere that all the diesel / petrol in Ireland comes from the same place? all the trucks for the different companies line up and fill their tankers?

Two sources; the gantries in Dublin port which have whatever the hell got delivered that day; and Whitegate Refinery which has a consistent output.

Some stations then put post delivery additives in, some don't.

JJJJNR

I noticed mine running a lot smoother with diptane, new air filter and fuel filter... although the fuel filter was never changed up to 80k miles. :eek:

crazyeyes

Nonsense to hear people thinking fuels from differnt companies makes there vehicles run more miles and sound better, All fuels must meet an octane reading 95% or higher. Most companies add an additive of 5% to there fuel, so they can say its cleaner. Fuel with a reading of octane 97% would give more MPG but you will pay a premium for this, the old shell garages used to have two types of petrol the first would be octane 95 the second octane 97. Most stations have only one type of petrol now octane 95.