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Thread: Best Diesel: Shell? Caltex? BP? Mobil?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Chook47 View Post
    How has the Vortex gone? It has just arrived in Townsville. Price was 132.9 cents/L. I have only filled up twice with diesel since i got my new car, which has been at the BP in Cluden which is also one of the major truck stops in town. I filled up with regular diesel for 128.9 cents/L.


    Would be on about my sixth or seventh tank since that post last month, Chook.
    It's certainly not the same difference you would expect from premium petrol.
    Consumption has stayed the same at around 8.5 litres per hundred ks.
    I didn't notice any difference in performance.
    The one difference I have found is soot out the exhaust.
    On standard diesel I'd leave a big black cloud out back on a heavy kick back, on Vortex diesel, not much at all.
    If the price was 12 or 13 cents a litre more, like 98 octane, I'd have to weigh it all up.
    But generally I find the price is the same. So I'm happy.
    Some Caltex servos only stock Vortex diesel, giving the standard one the flick. That's gotta be a good thing.
    Would be good if BP bought theirs into Vic, but that seems in the too hard basket.

    M
    Last edited by Cousin; 11-08-2010 at 07:29 PM.

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