Bad Diesel

Jesus.

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Car is running like sh*t and sometimes won't start since filling up at the garage in Donabate. Rang a friend out there to ask him if he uses them and sure enough his diesel Avensis had to be brought to the garage last week because it wouldn't start. He said he's since found out that loads of people out there are reporting similar stories & won't use the garage anymore. Its hard to prove stuff like this but its highly likely the diesel there is bad.

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Jesus.

Atlantic Dawn
Was it a mickey mouse fuel brand or a known one?

Vixas
Mickey Mouse,

Why people fall for this "cheap" fuel astounds me, if its too good to be true. It is...

Vixas, what are you talking about?

colm_mcm

Didn't you have another issue with your car where it was spluttering after you changed the fuel filter?

Jesus.

colm_mcm wrote: »

Didn't you have another issue with your car where it was spluttering after you changed the fuel filter?

Yes Sir. I believe this to be the cause

SGKM

About two years ago I got a fill of diesel from a "leading" branded Irish fuel retailer with a green logo. At the time I only filled up from this retailer, (brand loyalty, eh?) and in fact my previous fills for the previous number of months all came from this particular garage. About 200km (30% of the tank) later the car died, I assumed that it was an injector problem and had it towed to BMW as the car was two weeks out of warranty. Long story short the fuel in the tank was tested twice (at my expense) and both times the diesel tested positive for traces of petrol. The fuel system in my car was rebuilt at a cost of €10,500, I sh1t you not. Despite my understanding of the “balance of probability” in a civil court, I was advised by a solicitor at the time not to go after the retailer as my case wasn’t strong enough.

Tigger

SGKM wrote: »

About two years ago I got a fill of diesel from a "leading" branded Irish fuel retailer with a green logo. At the time I only filled up from this retailer, (brand loyalty, eh?) and in fact my previous fills for the previous number of months all came from this particular garage. About 200km (30% of the tank) later the car died, I assumed that it was an injector problem and had it towed to BMW as the car was two weeks out of warranty. Long story short the fuel in the tank was tested twice (at my expense) and both times the diesel tested positive for traces of petrol. The fuel system in my car was rebuilt at a cost of €10,500, I sh1t you not. Despite my understanding of the “balance of probability” in a civil court, I was advised by a solicitor at the time not to go after the retailer as my case wasn’t strong enough.

did you have the car from new?

Jesus.

That is depressing reading SGKM. The fact that it was a well known retailer too.

I can't remember what the Donabate garage is but I don't think its a well known brand

Atlantic Dawn

Jesus. wrote: »

That is depressing reading SGKM. The fact that it was a well known retailer too.

I can't remember what the Donabate garage is but I don't think its a well known brand

This is your problem, the majority of the dodgy diesel is from non branded garages selling rubbish quality stuff, why anyone would stick questionable fuel in to a car is beyond me.

Jesus.

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

This is your problem, the majority of the dodgy diesel is from non branded garages selling rubbish quality stuff, why anyone would stick questionable fuel in to a car is beyond me.

When I say I don't know what Garage it is its because I never looked up at it, not because I purposely went in to an unbranded place. It just happened to be the nearest garage when I was low on fuel. As far as I can remember its no cheaper than anywhere else.

But even staying away from these joints doesn't guarantee your safety either as the guys story above indicates.

SGKM

Tigger wrote: »

did you have the car from new?

I bought the car when it was two years old from a BMW main dealer and had owned the car for 1 year prior to the fuel incident occurring (hence the BMW warranty having just expired). I was the only person to have fuelled the car in that year. The retailer confirmed to me after the incident that I had put diesel into the car on the last fill (by both purchase receipt and CCTV footage) so either someone tampered with my fuel tank and poured petrol in after last fill (there was absolutely no evidence of this) or else I had a fill of contaminate fuel.

In “discussions” after the incident, the retailer claimed that no one else had come forward to complain about their cars suffering contaminated fuel. Personally I don’t believe that but either way I’m sure they would say deny it down to the ground as it would be very brand damaging if your fuel was contaminated, it destroyed a number of people’s cars and that story was to make the media at any level, especially if you were planning an IPO in the near term…

Rebellion

i have heard of issues regarding condensation in the tanks of diesel, maybe they are unaware and should be asked to check it out

Atlantic Dawn

Rebellion wrote: »

i have heard of issues regarding condensation in the tanks of diesel, maybe they are unaware and should be asked to check it out

There would need to be massive amounts of condensation to cause issues with the car. Would be like some athlete failing a drugs test saying they didn't know the flu medicine they took contained EPO despite the fact they would have needed to drink about 10 litres of it to tally with the failed drug test results.

Jesus.

I've just done some Googling and the Donabate garage appears to be a Campus. Not a very common one alright Atlantic.

ZENER

Jesus. wrote: »

I've just done some Googling and the Donabate garage appears to be a Campus. Not a very common one alright Atlantic.

It was Campus up till a year ago, it's a Maxol retailer now. I've been using that garage since I moved here 6 years ago, both petrol and diesel, never had an issue ! That said I do check the water collector under the filter of my CR-V regularly.

Ken