Are all fuels equal ..Tescos - Shell etc

[JUDWAK]

There is no sand in any fuel at any point, up until it leaves the delivery pump. There may be an additive in ASDAs fuel that is cleaning something from the car's tank or fuel pipes?

maybe mate
but i deffo have white sand in mi filters dude honest
others must have found some too
or mi surfs a cocaine head

[Apache]

I have found a white solid in a filter after using bio. It was fairly hard or 'shaley' like crushed shells and I wondered if it was some sort of calcerous material perhaps used in filtering, or maybe settled out of the fuel. Might even have been scale from water thats got into the tank over the years freed by the use of bio.

George, maybe the sand was some of the stuff you mixed in the paint for your floor

[JUDWAK]

I have found a white solid in a filter after using bio. It was fairly hard or 'shaley' like crushed shells and I wondered if it was some sort of calcerous material perhaps used in filtering, or maybe settled out of the fuel.

George, maybe the sand was some of the stuff you mixed in the paint for your floor

no its no any of my sand
but it could be crushed shells i will look closer next time just to see

[Apache]

It wasn't actually crushed shells, just had that sort of consistency.

[JUDWAK]

was it pure white?

[Apache]

Yep, shiny white.

[Albannach]

Sounds like Catalyst dust? But I'm pretty sure Diesel doesn't see any of that. My thoughts are still that it's coming from the truck/car rather than the fuel production or storage.

[24Seven]

i used red long ago on a xanta for a year (i know i just dont care)
cleaned the filter out it was full of red lumps of crap

i used asda diesel for 2 years the filter was full of white sand about 2 ounce
i found this sand in morrisons too when i used there diesel but no where near as much has asda
there was no sand in red? why?

I buy a large amount of Gas Oil (as you call red) for mobile and fixed plant and the only difference between Gas Oil and diesel apart from the colour is the sulphur content, but we are not talking much here in ppm nothing that an engine or you would notice, if you had crap in your red it was just the way it had be stored by your source.

[JUDWAK]

I buy a large amount of Gas Oil (as you call red) for mobile and fixed plant and the only difference between Gas Oil and diesel apart from the colour is the sulphur content, but we are not talking much here in ppm nothing that an engine or you would notice, if you had crap in your red it was just the way it had be stored by your source.

it true
i ran plant my self
2000ltr in a 8000ltr tank
so i was proply dragging the crap out of the tank

[JUDWAK]

Yep, shiny white.

maybe same stuff wonder were it comes from
might have it tested next time i find some

[cabbage]

i believe tesco's did import fuel a few years ago, dunno if its still done these days though. probably a viable option really seeing as north sea is the most expensive place in the world to produce hydrocarbons!

but aye, most of it comes from the same processing plants, just in different tankers.

[blackpoolsparks]

I buy a large amount of Gas Oil (as you call red) for mobile and fixed plant and the only difference between Gas Oil and diesel apart from the colour is the sulphur content, but we are not talking much here in ppm nothing that an engine or you would notice, if you had crap in your red it was just the way it had be stored by your source.

so....
they sell it cheaper so you can run plant with it, but basically its the same?
They add red colourant to be able to see if you use it in a road vehicle. is that about right?

[JUDWAK]

so....
they sell it cheaper so you can run plant with it, but basically its the same?
They add red colourant to be able to see if you use it in a road vehicle. is that about right?

spot on matey
red in the uk
green in irland

[Vultch]

no its no any of my sand
but it could be crushed shells i will look closer next time just to see

Thats Shell diesel......

[Smego2]

The basic fuel is the same and you'll see different oil companies filling their tankers at the same refinery ! The clever bit is that each of the oil companies have their own additive pack which is usually a blend of detergents/performance enhancers etc - when they add the pack it changes the basic fuel into Esso/Jet/Tesco etc

Needless to say the supermarket's packs are less sophisticated than the premium brands !

Not entirely true, my missus used to work for Q8 and they used to supply (as well as receive) fuel from BP, tesco sainsburys etc (basically whoever had supply close to the transportation) and they just pumped it in as the "additives" are added at source not at the pump.