Gday...

Firstly, welcome to the forum Franko.

     

Thanks for that info. I travel up and through that country fairly regularly ... not that often recently ... and like the area.

It will certainly make me check before going through.

Here's what I grabbed from google -

Cheers - John

If fuel a problem in Victoria you better not go bush in the big states .

Thanks John and that's great putting up the hours. 

 

Cheers Franko.

rockylizard wrote:

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Gday...

Firstly, welcome to the forum Franko.

     

Thanks for that info. I travel up and through that country fairly regularly ... not that often recently ... and like the area.

It will certainly make me check before going through.

Here's what I grabbed from google -

Cheers - John

 

I love those little towns in the Wimmera- Mallee area.

How's the website there.

The business is listed as a car dealer. Only open for 45 minutes, 2 days a week.

Wouldn't imagine there would be a tremendous turnover involved.

Would give the locals time to top up though.

 

It's good info for travellers though. Thanks Franco. 

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Fuel availability when travelling, especially in more isolated areas (and I don't mean the true Outback; closer in but far from the coast) is a constant concern. Is there a site one can log on to to check towns/areas for fuel availability? Case in point, planned a trip to Charters Towers and had real concerns re fuel between Clermont and Charters Towers. Sent an email to Visitor Information Centre at CT and received advice fuel is available to Belyando Crossing. Very appreciative of the help, but as I said, is there a site one can determine this type of info???

If you can make it the extra 30km to Pinnaroo you will find some of the cheapest fuel in Australia

Thank you Geoff. I am not that technically smart, but given there is such a beast that I asked about, may be I better get smarter sooner. Thanks again.

PeterD wrote:

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Dickodownunder wrote:

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Try the App for your phone called Fuel Map.

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 There are heaps of those available. However I have not seen one yet that is reliable. Many of them are user updated and prices can be way out. Which ones have opening hours (I am yet to find one?) The OP used one of those sites and was caught out.  When travelling through a series of small towns dont pass a fuel station unless you can be assured or getting to the second fuel stop past that point. Not only do you have to watch the opening hours but the small stations often run out of fuel.

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Here is a part of a screenshot from Fuel Map.

I cropped it to remove the map so the detail will be easily read by forum members.

You may note that there is a comment about dirty fuel on the details of one of the fuel outlets.

Anyone using the APP can update details if required.

It also displays how many days since the last update.

Any wiki is only as good as the info put in but in most cases the wiki apps with many users stand a much better chance of being accurate than ones that have few users.

As I said in my post, yesterday I entered Murrayville into the app and the result was no fuel outlets in Murrayville.

If the OP was using the app he may have known that fuel was a problem there with fuel (no outlets listed) and if he was in town and noted the restricted trading hours he may have updated the wiki to indicate the situation.

Peter, you are absolutely correct in regard that no wiki could advise of an outlet running out of fuel unless the actual owner/manager of the outlet updated the wiki information.

All things aside I feel the Fuel Maps app is generally helpful to most travellers.

Hi John,

You are not the only one that says you "shouldn't" get dirty fuel there.

Refer to the last four or five posts on this forum topic

caravanersforum.com/viewtopic.php

As it happened I fueled up in Emerald and drove to Charters Towers. Stayed overnite and fueled up in Charters Towers the following morning.
I only got 5 kls out of town and the engine warning light came on but with no code.
As I have a scan guage, I reset it and carried on.
I got to approx 60 kilometers from Townsville and the fuel filter warning light came on.
I took it to Toyota in Townsville and they changed the filter.
On inspection of the old filter it was blocked with what looked like fine particles of dirt but as Rosie said in the post from the other forum, there tanks could be getting old.
In any case it cost me an unwanted overnite accomodation cost and a new fuel filter and I might add, a lot of angst in that last 60 kls.
The fuel filter had been replaced at 39.000 kls in Port Lincoln and I had only driven approx 4.500 kls.

I will replace the filter again at the next service regardless as I feel that there is probably more foreign matter still in my tank and as well I am carrying a spare filter just in case.

Back to the Fuel Map app.

Anyone with the app can update that info or with detailed trading times at any time if they see fit.

Cheers

-- Edited by Dickodownunder on Monday 29th of May 2017 06:32:52 AM

Absolutely John,and I would not wish what happened to me on any other traveller. Bearing in mind that truck filters are far larger than a Toyota filter and trucks have multiple filters may make a big difference. Another strange happening which meant nothing to me at the time was as I filled with fuel my wife went into pay. The console operator questioned her quite aggressively as to which pump I used and then sent her back out to physically check the pump number. When she went back in the console operator would not serve her and with that a male supervisor processsd the payment. At the time apparently both the console operator and the supervisor watched me move my vehicle from the pump area to wait for my wife to come back. When my wife got back in the car she said that she felt something was very strange with that purchase. In my personal opinion both those employees knew that there was a problem and I could bet they breathed a big sigh of relief that I actually drove off their site. I don't give a rats thingo regarding how honourable and up front anyone thinks that fuel outlet is... the simple fact is, the operators of that Puma outlet allowed me to fill my vehicle with fuel which caused me great expense and inconvenience over the following 48 hours. If comments on a fuel wiki just save one other poor traveller from what I had to go through then so be it.... Cheers

Yes Peter that thought crossed my mind. My reasons for believing that the fuel was a problem in CT was the fact that the console operator sent my wife all the way back out to check the pump number and then when she returned she referred my wife to a male supervisor for payment. I would imagine that the staff knew that there was a problem or at least knew that the tank supplying pump 11 was very low and probably should have had a sign on it stating "do not use" or similar. Believe the situation to the contrary if you wish. My post in this topic was not to discuss fuel quality but to point out that the wiki Fuel Map can be benificial to travellers.