http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-29375776

Delivery driver filled the wrong tank with unleaded?

I don't think that's possible any more, I think the fittings on the transfer pipework are a different shape. More likely tesco and watering it down..

Must be something more detailed than that for them to involve contractors and "dig" up the forecourt to access the tanks.

 

You'd normally just dip the tanks and do a test - if found to be incorrect, then you'd pump out and flush the tanks.

 

Digging up seems there is something else at fault?

Maybe their pumps were delivering 25% less fuel than they thought they were..

If they're digging up I'd suspect they may have a porous or leaky tank?

allowing water in or cross-contamination between tanks?

Tesco had problems about 6 years ago with fiddling the diesel recipe. Mainly affected older cars at that time

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its been on our local news all week. One of the cars that broke down had what was in the tank removed and it was not diesel. The colour was different and the smell of the liquid was very much like linseed oil. Tests of the fuel at the filling station have been inconclusive, so they are conducting more thorough investigation.

This is the earlier story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-29306434

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-29340899

Linseed oil smell could be biodiesel?

Bad batch maybe, or passing off dodgy biodiesel as "real diesel"?

Local Tesco delivery vans fill up with diesel at the local Jet station despite having their own diesel available right next to where they load up deliveries. Even Tesco won't use their own fuel.

Did Tesco not have issues with silicon in the fuel a few years back.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_petrol_contamination

Local Tesco delivery vans fill up with diesel at the local Jet station despite having their own diesel available right next to where they load up deliveries. Even Tesco won't use their own fuel.

 

really? both our local stores use the onsite stations for the delivery vans

A tanker misfuel, or the Delivery Driver error, or Tank Issue.

Tesco keep Million of vehicles driving perfectly well, just as the others do, until a Human Error happens along.

 

The difference is, the Supermarkets Insurers do the necessary quickly, once aware.

Not all franchised filling stations hold their hands up so promptly, or settle the compensation to those affected.

 

And the Refineries & Producers bringing in the Product from the Cheapest Sources to meet the Minimum Standards 

vary very little from one Brand to another when you are talking bog standard Heavy Oil. (Diesel.)

 

Greenergy or Shell are as near it as joined at the hip for Importation and Distribution, 

& Jet, Esso, Shell, BP, Morrisons, Tesco, Asda, are selling you pretty much an identical produce until you start paying Premiums for Additives.

Or their Advertising Campaigns.

 

Just as with 95 ron Petrol,

that is until you pay for 97 ron or 99 ron in the UK.

The oil companies have got the whole compensation thing sewn up pretty tight, they don't own or run thier own forecourts, it's all franchised, so when you make a claim it is with the retailer who sold it to you and not the massive global company you hear about making billions in profit.

If you buy branded fuel you invariably get fuel which is to BSEN 590 (diesel) or BSEN 228 (unleaded petrol). A quick glance at the pump will always confirm it, as the BSEN number will be displayed on either the pump or the filler nozzle. If you take a look at Supermarket fuel pumps, you pretty much won't see the BSEN number displayed because it isn't to the standard. Note they sell "City Diesel" so that the BSEN number isn't required. If they sell "Diesel" then it must be BSEN.

 

A tanker misfuel, or the Delivery Driver error, or Tank Issue.

Tesco keep Million of vehicles driving perfectly well, just as the others do, until a Human Error happens along.

 

The difference is, the Supermarkets Insurers do the necessary quickly, once aware.

Not all franchised filling stations hold their hands up so promptly, or settle the compensation to those affected.

 

And the Refineries & Producers bringing in the Product from the Cheapest Sources to meet the Minimum Standards 

vary very little from one Brand to another when you are talking bog standard Heavy Oil. (Diesel.)

 

Greenergy or Shell are as near it as joined at the hip for Importation and Distribution, 

& Jet, Esso, Shell, BP, Morrisons, Tesco, Asda, are selling you pretty much an identical produce until you start paying Premiums for Additives.

Or their Advertising Campaigns.

 

Just as with 95 ron Petrol,

that is until you pay for 97 ron or 99 ron in the UK.

Oh, and BSEN diesel is allowed a maximum of 7% biofuel added, whereas City Diesel has (in one supermarket instance) 15% biofuel added.

Are you saying that we buy a product,

pay the Duty on it and tax on the Duty and do not get the Energy from the Fuel we pay for?

 

Is Biofuel added a bad thing?

If you buy branded fuel you invariably get fuel which is to BSEN 590 (diesel) or BSEN 228 (unleaded petrol). A quick glance at the pump will always confirm it, as the BSEN number will be displayed on either the pump or the filler nozzle. If you take a look at Supermarket fuel pumps, you pretty much won't see the BSEN number displayed because it isn't to the standard. Note they sell "City Diesel" so that the BSEN number isn't required. If they sell "Diesel" then it must be BSEN.

All road diesel sold in the EU HAS to meet BSEN590, it's not optional.

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Tesco is having a rough time ATM what with 4 leading directors being suspended for some creative book keeping and plummeting sales and now a batch of dodgy diesel whatever next?

I can't see how dodgy fuel would mean they need to dig up the forecourt. More likely something has got into the tanks or fuel lines. I would expect the tank as the fuel lines are under pressure.

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All road diesel sold in the EU HAS to meet BSEN590, it's not optional.

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Okay, You clearly know better than me.

Okay, You clearly know better than me.

 

http://www.ipu.co.uk/en590/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EN_590

 

But then I found this.

 

https://www.dieselnet.com/standards/eu/fuel_automotive.php

 

So the question becomes where does Supermarket diesel come from...

Who produces and supplies lots more of it now are.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenergy

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Who produces and supplies lots more of it now are.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenergy

 

Well based on location its unlikely that they would have supplied fuel to Dorset

Well based on location its unlikely that they would have supplied fuel to Dorset

 

Actually they have more locations than I thought, but they don't produce fuel, they blend it. Also dodgy batch from a supplier wouldn't affect one location.

 

I've been to a few refineries and distribution centres and the volumes they deal with a get through are huge.

Fuel is collected from Depots for some areas. 

Transported to Storage Depots and Distributed from them. 

My mate is a tanker driver delivering to Filing Stations, and is never near a Refinery.