Fuel Quality - Diesel...

[ItalianTuneUp]

Which diesel do you normally use?

 

[ivandraganov]

The cheapest one,soon will be switching to British Gas...

 

[gIzzE]

If you want to see what can be pumped into your car from a main brand petrol station have a read of this....

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[ivandraganov]

I knew it,must go with the flow.Few filling expensive fuel thus it's sitting for ages in the tank breaking down to crude...

 

[ItalianTuneUp]

Right that's it - I'm back on the Asda stuff now!

 

[ras8963]

Here on the Isle of Man, we have once choice for diesel... All the garages are run by one company...

Thats not actually a choice,......

 

[ItalianTuneUp]

It is called Hobson's choice

 

[Antharro]

I haven't driven a diesel regularly enough recently to be able to comment on the current diesel fuels. However, about a decade ago, I used to annoy my father routinely by getting almost 100km more on a tank of diesel on his imported Mitsubishi Pajero than he did. The only difference - he filled up on Tesco's diesel, I filled up on Texaco diesel.

 

[V12]

Or you have a lighter right foot.

 

[geraldrobins]

Or different type of journeys. assuming a 70 ltr tank and 30 ish mpg thats a 12% difference.

 

[ima poster]

Until a month ago, I drove a Jeep Commander fitted with the Mercedes 320Cdi diesel. I have a 250 mile motorway journey I do a couple of times a month. Regular Shell diesel used to give me 22-23mpg and the V-power 24-26mpg (both from the onboard computer). I now have an S212 on 61 plate and love it. I am getting around 50mpg from regular diesel. Will be interesting to see if the V-power makes a difference in an engine that less stressed as the S212 does not have the aerodynamics of a brick wall.

 

[Dryce]

The only difference - he filled up on Tesco's diesel, I filled up on Texaco diesel.

Different driving styles can easily make this sort of difference.