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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sirimusa" data-source="post: 32646" data-attributes="member: 31881"><p>Hello fellow members,Allow me to share an interesting experience with you on the diesel I use:I pump PETRONAS diesel into my 2009 320d (59k kms on the odo). I haven't had any issues with it: burns clean, engine behaves normally, no particular issue in terms of color/density of emissions. I was quite happy.Just three days back, I ran into a Caltex station and decided to give it a try given that a few forum members recommended the diesel there. So I filled up for just RM25 (to give it a try) and just 2-3kms after filling up, the engine started to shudder and clutter particularly hard and rough. At one point, the vibration was so worrying that I decided to stop the car on the side of Tun Razak for a minute, I got quite worried. I started the car again, and same issue: loud vibrations and clutering and the smoke coming out of the pipe was looking very, very black. FYI, I'm European and have driven diesels in France my whole life (Renault Megane dCi, Opel Vectra TDI, Ford Focus TDCi, Audi A4 TDI) so I know when something is wrong with emission color and engine sound/vibration.Just today, my empty fuel light went on and I refueled at PETRONAS. And voila!! After 10kms of driving, all the issues with vibration, sound, unusual smoke were just were quickly disappearing. The more I drove this morning, the quieter and more normal things got. I just left the office right now for 20mns to drive one more time and everything is perfect and almost back to normal!So here's my question: any of you experience any such thing with Caltex or when changing diesel brands? From my experience (and maybe I got unlucky), stay away from Caltex diesel. I also didn't see any lorry resupplying diesel when I was there. PETRONAS does the trick just fine for me. What do you think went wrong? Any ideas??</p></blockquote><p></p>

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