Border diesel

mikeecho

So.. I travel up north from cork a few times a year, but I always fill to the brim with diesel in cork, in a circle k that is company operated, just so I'm sure that the fuel is A-OK.

Is there anywhere near the border that is guaranteed safe for diesel fuel ?

Edit: , I've a 70L tank, so I can usually make a return journey cork-belfast-cork on a single tank .

But sometimes i need to do extra miles up north

Where is safe to fill up

Atlantic Dawn

Stick to a mainstream brand and keep the receipt. Doesn't seem to be as much of it going on since the radioactive element was added down south.

Dartz

Never buy diesel up there if you can help it.

Allinall

Dartz wrote: »

Never buy diesel up there if you can help it.

That’s some level of paranoia.

What about all the thousands of NI drivers that buy diesel every week with no issues?

MrMusician18

mikeecho wrote: »

So.. I travel up north from cork a few times a year, but I always fill to the brim with diesel in cork, in a circle k that is company operated, just so I'm sure that the fuel is A-OK.

Is there anywhere near the border that is guaranteed safe for diesel fuel ?

Edit: , I've a 70L tank, so I can usually make a return journey cork-belfast-cork on a single tank .

But sometimes i need to do extra miles up north

Where is safe to fill up

If you know you're going to be doing extra miles in the north I'd top up on the M1 outside Dublin. I'd also be putting the bare minimum in the car to get me through bandit country and diluting it down south at the first opportunity, if I got caught out up there.

The washing mightn't be as rife as it once was, but I've heard too many stories of destroyed injectors up there.

Large bottle small glass

Your probably more likely to get washed diesel close to border, but the guys who wash diesel have managed to get it very far from border to.

I work occasionally with a private investigator who found it being delivered to branded garages in two Munster and one Leinster county.

They probably only need a truck driver/garage manager with a drug/drink/gambling habit.

With modern technology and/or getting rid of green diesel (via rebates or whatever)it should be easy to rid the country of such a scourge but nothing seems to happen

un5byh7sqpd2x0

There’s a farm in Hackballscross where you can get the good stuff

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

If you're on the M1 use the Applegreen near Dundalk.

vectra

There is a place in Ardee that I often topped up with and all seemed fine

martinr5232

Olive Helpless Harpoon wrote:

There’s a farm in Hackballscross where you can get the good stuff

Slab will look after ya 😂

meathstevie

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Stick to a mainstream brand and keep the receipt. Doesn't seem to be as much of it going on since the radioactive element was added down south.

Exactly there’s plenty of branded and unbranded reputable filling stations all over Northern Ireland. The locals don’t drive to Dublin or Sligo to fuel their cars all the time either.

mikeecho

I know of two stations in Munster that were caught selling laundered fuel, both have since changed owners.

One was on the cork to Limerick rd, and another was on the westerly outskirts of cork city.

I wonder are these the same two stations mentioned earlier.

Large bottle small glass

mikeecho wrote: »

I know of two stations in Munster that were caught selling laundered fuel, both have since changed owners.

One was on the cork to Limerick rd, and another was on the westerly outskirts of cork city.

I wonder are these the same two stations mentioned earlier.

No.

One in Tipperary the other in Kerry.

mikeecho

SF are ahead in the polls.. we could all be using border diesel in a few months.

ba_barabus

Large bottle small glass wrote: »

No.

One in Tipperary the other in Kerry.

One was in Nenagh

sweetie

Likelihood of a Dublin Applegreen having washed diesel?
Filled up and about 30km later an injector went. Mechanic says it's a possibility but I'm already nearly 400 in the hole and another 200 to test...