ChemCool wrote:
drove around a few Caltex stations in the area a while back to get samples, the same grade pertrol, all the samples differed in colour...
Yip, there where quite a few stories about filling stations diluting petrol with cheaper grades etc....
Then there are the solvents they used to clean the pipeline after they they changed from petrol to diesel and vise versa.... bad stuff
Tell us more about your samples. What else can you tell us?
Was driving a 3.0 SGLi Skyline at the time and I noticed some strange sound from the engine. After 200 000 km plus you know your car, right? So I just went round collecting samples in litre bottles, went back to the local Caltex where I always fill up because it is convenient. Questioned the owner about the colour and he gave me a bull story... thinks everybody is stupid kind of answer. The strange thing was that only the 1 samples colour was completely different. All the other tanks where simular, but you could spot the difference. Used to fill up twice a week then. Avoided them for about a month, then checked again, all fine, car back to normal. They either fiddled with the fuel or it was a bad batch from the depot.