I thought all diesel was the same.

uncle_sam_ie

A friend of mine(he's a farmer) asked me why I drove 3 miles down the road to fill my car up with diesel. I said because it's much cheaper then the station in the village. Anyway, he reckons the diesel might be cheaper but you won't get the same mileage out of it as you would from the diesel being sold in the village. Is this true? I thought diesel was all the same.

Said the tinker to the judge! :pac:

TheZohanS

All diesel comes into port and is then distributed between the oil companies, it's all the same. The only difference is how it's marketed.

pdbhp

No there's different types of Diesel not withstanding the green and red Diesel varieties.

1 - Car Diesel (cleaner and better for your car)
2 - Truck Diesel (bad for your car)
3 - Diesel dipped hash (bad for your health)

Mickeroo

He's right, the more expensive diesel is cleaner afaik.

4leto

Unless it was tinkered with and washed of the dye, then its shyte.

IcedOut

If ya get caught with tractor diesel in your car you get a huge fine

TheZohanS

pdbhp wrote: »

3 - Diesel dipped hash (bad for your health)

Can you explain diesel dipped hash? Cheers!

ejmaztec

TheZohan wrote: »

Can you explain diesel dipped hash? Cheers!

It's diesel with corned-beef and weed.

pdbhp

TheZohan wrote: »

Can you explain diesel dipped hash? Cheers!

It was a type of hash in the 90's, think it was transported in trucks tanks hence the name.
It was disgusting and most likely terrible bad to your health.

oppenheimer1

All diesel and petrol imported into Ireland is the same. At the forecourt the only difference between brands are the additives.

bryaner

pdbhp wrote: »

No there's different types of Diesel not withstanding the green and red Diesel varieties.

1 - Car Diesel (cleaner and better for your car)
2 - Truck Diesel (bad for your car)
3 - Diesel dipped hash (bad for your health)

Trucks use the same diesel as cars, green diesel is the same as road diesel just with a dye in it.

TheZohanS

pdbhp wrote: »

It was a type of hash in the 90's, think it was transported in trucks tanks hence the name.
It was disgusting and most likely terrible bad to your health.

I think I had some of that stuff back in the day, it stank.

pdbhp

TheZohan wrote: »

I think I had some of that stuff back in the day, it stank.

Probably the same alright, disgusting so it was.

bryaner

pdbhp wrote: »

It was a type of hash in the 90's, think it was transported in trucks tanks hence the name.
It was disgusting and most likely terrible bad to your health.

Remember it alright was pure rank..

uncle_sam_ie

What he's basically saying is that the diesel sold at Amber isn't the same quality as the diesel sold at Topaz.

uncle_sam_ie

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

All diesel and petrol imported into Ireland is the same. At the forecourt the only difference between brands are the additives.

So, would these additives increase the mileage making it better value?

mconigol

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

So, would these additives increase the mileage making it better value?

Better value for the guys selling it...

uncle_sam_ie

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

A friend of mine(he's a farmer) asked me why I drove 3 miles down the road to fill my car up with diesel. I said because it's much cheaper then the station in the village. Anyway, he reckons the diesel might be cheaper but you won't get the same mileage out of it as you would from the diesel being sold in the village. Is this true? I thought diesel was all the same.

Maybe he suspects it's washed diesel? Where the green dye is filtered using chemicals? Terribly bad for the engine if done improperly.

Stained Class

I think most diesels from Branded garages is the same really.

Watch for stuff sold in non-branded filling stations. You could be asking for trouble.

Overheal

Some places brand shyte into their gas. Shell for example advertising nitrogen-enriched gasoline. whoopie.

That said if you drive to far for a small difference in price you negate the cost benefit. Depending on the mileage you end up basically burning the difference in cost driving the extra few miles to whatever gas station has it a few cents less.

Then theres octane levels but thats an entirely different matter

jucko

As a garage owner l can deffo say its basically the same, unless its washed of course,
then its not great at all, even though theres a new low sulphur agridiesel that is, according to informed sources, "the dogs" for washing. l do remember the diesel dipped hash pretty vile stuff, not great either. Stick to the brands just to be sure, as your car is a big investment.

Sky King

Petrol on the other hand, can be bough in ****ty low octane grades that could fk your engine up.

Capt'n Midnight

Some garages have been known to not be as accurate as you would like,
http://www.examiner.ie/ireland/2000-warnings-given-for-faulty-pumps-meters-and-scales-165269.html

MORE than 2,000 warnings were issued to the operators of faulty measuring instruments such as fuel pumps, taxi meters and supermarket weighing scales last year.

Figures supplied by the National Standards Authority of Ireland showed that thousands of consumers could have been overcharged through inaccurate measuring equipment.

Almost one in five fuel pumps were discovered to be wrongly calibrated.

However, an NSAI spokesperson played down fears of widespread fraud by owners of such equipment by claiming the vast majority of measuring instruments had only required minor adjustments or recalibration.

The NSAI spokesperson said most inaccuracies in the equipment had largely arisen through ordinary use.

The NSAI said its inspectors visited almost 4,000 premises last year which resulted in the testing of 17,000 individual pieces of measuring equipment. They included almost 8,000 fuel pumps located at 1,300 petrol stations.

An additional 50,000 tests were carried out by third-party inspectors authorised by the NSAI.

Other common items which are regularly tested include weighing scales in supermarkets, drink dispensers in pubs and weighbridges.

The NSAI confirmed that 1,400 out of 2,000 warnings, which required corrective action, were issued by its inspectors during 2010.

dirty petrol used to be a big problem, I'd imagine dirty diesel would not be good for the injectors

Overheal

Not surprising, every pump I've visited in the last year has the inspection stickers but are signed and dated by no one.


....Why am I not more outraged by that?

Chuck Stone

uncle_sam_ie wrote: »

What he's basically saying is that the diesel sold at Amber isn't the same quality as the diesel sold at Topaz.

He's either lying or ill-informed it seems.

Perhaps he's friends with one garage owner and not the other.

There is a petrol station in Cork City that I bad mouth at every opportunity as it has expensive petrol and treats those who work there like shite.

Was friends with a Spanish fella a while back who they wouldn't pay for his first couple of days work because he was being 'trained'.

SafeSurfer

I thought all diesel was the same.

No Iraqi and Libyan diesel are tinged with the blood of innocents.

Daniel S

So does the extra weed give you more MPG or wha?

phasers

Texaco fuel is shit, if I fill up at texaco I get about 20 miles less than I get if I fill up at the Esso down the road.

yer man!

TheZohan wrote: »

All diesel comes into port and is then distributed between the oil companies, it's all the same. The only difference is how it's marketed.

Is all fuel imported? I thought we produce a load of petrol/diesel/kerosene/jetfuel/bitumen in Cork?

http://www.hydrocarbons-technology.com/projects/whitegate/

Irishpimpdude

Smoking red diesel right now tastier then ya might think