Laundered fuel

mikeecho

Is laundered fuel still a thing?
I'm always wary about filling up when I'm up North, or anywhere near the border.

Miscreant

mikeecho wrote: »

Is laundered fuel still a thing?
I'm always wary about filling up when I'm up North, or anywhere near the border.

Fill up at a reputable and recognised branded garage and you'll be fine, but yes, laundered fuel is still a thing.

mikeecho

Miscreant wrote: »

Fill up at a reputable and recognised branded garage and you'll be fine, but yes, laundered fuel is still a thing.

Ok thanks.. I suppose they haven't gone away.

I try and plan my fill up's , and use a company operated station, it reduces the risk.

RandomViewer

Thought with diesel systems getting fussy it would have trailed off
Did they ever find the cause of the bad petrol a few years ago?

mikeecho

RandomViewer wrote: »

Thought with diesel systems getting fussy it would have trailed off
Did they ever find the cause of the bad petrol a few years ago?

I thought it was kero and some other sh it being added to bulk up the petrol.

RandomViewer

mikeecho wrote: »

I thought it was kero and some other sh it being added to bulk up the petrol.

Remember a report on Primetime a few years ago about it damaging small engined cars, seemed to be a Midlands issue, never heard anything after that and only remembered when I saw the thread

mikeecho

RandomViewer wrote: »

Remember a report on Primetime a few years ago about it damaging small engined cars, seemed to be a Midlands issue, never heard anything after that and only remembered when I saw the thread

That was way way back in 2007.

RandomViewer

mikeecho wrote: »

That was way way back in 2007.

Found it, 2014, you were right Kero
https://www.rte.ie/news/2014/1106/657341-petrol-fuel/

Vic_08

Stick to the sites owned by the big chains if you really, really want to be extra safe, there were certainly some chain stations supplying dodgy fuel in the high profile cases mentioned.

Easy to see a rogue fanchisee increasing profits by adding a tanker of dodgy and cooking the books, no benefit for managers in owned stations to do it and significantly harder to hide the discrepancies. Most of the cases were people filling up from outfits that were dodgy AF though.

Anyone remember some of the pop-up stations that appeared out of nowhere, was one on the N81 near Citywest in about 2010 that was clearly not legit. Diesel only, 20c/L cheaper than anywhere else, a farm shed up a steep laneway, yet still for about a week there were queues of muppets willing to brick their engines to save a tenner a tank. Motoring Darwinism in those cases.

Atlantic Dawn

Last I heard there was a massive bounty offered to those of a scientific mind if they could remove the radioactive marker from the diesel. As far as I know nobody has yet managed to do this.

fryup

just don't buy in bandit country and you'll be fine

Jim_Hodge

fryup wrote: »

just don't buy in bandit country and you'll be fine

It's shipped further down the country than you might imagine.

mikeecho

Jim_Hodge wrote: »

It's shipped further down the country than you might imagine.

That's why I stick to company operated circle k sites when buying diesel.

I'll take my chances with petrol for the lawnmower and other garden tools... Although I'm still wary of super cheap petrol.

fryup

stretched petrol? is that still an issue?

CoBo55

mikeecho wrote: »

That's why I stick to company operated circle k sites when buying diesel.

I'll take my chances with petrol for the lawnmower and other garden tools... Although I'm still wary of super cheap petrol.

You obviously don't live in Wexford.. there's no such thing as any super cheap fuel here.

i57dwun4yb1pt8

The Beer Baron controls all fuel in wexford , heating , petrol , diesel the lot
fecking cartel of county wide proportions