Petrol is not just petrol any more

ginvzt

dawsond410078 wrote: »

Hi,

Has any one noticed that when the likes of Tesco do a discount offer - the milage you get per gallon really drops off?

In my Honda JAZZ I usually get about 47 mpg - but when I filled up at Tesco on the 5p offer it goes down to 41mpg. I've noticed this several time. (when I filled up at a non supmarket petrol station it goes back up to 47 (plus) mpg.
This is for the same journey to and from work.
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We have Honda Jazz, mostly fill up at Tesco's, sometimes at Shell and the mpg is always 47-49. No difference, really!

goldspanners

denise123 wrote: »

We had it serviced last week, the filters were filthy, and the turbos all clogged up the whole lot had to be cleaned [the car is just about one year old]

do you run it until the tank is almost empty? this would cause the filter to be filthy.

why were the turbos in such a state? is an oil seal leaking? you should have asked what supermarket fuel has to do with a dirty turbo.

jammin_2

boyse7en wrote: »

There are thousands of people who believe man didn't land on the moon, that Evolution doesn't exist and that spraying yourself with a cheap deodorant will make you irresistible to women.

So yes, they could all be imagining it.

Evolutions is merely a theory, not fact. So your analogy is flawed.

denise123

goldspanners wrote: »

do you run it until the tank is almost empty? this would cause the filter to be filthy.

why were the turbos in such a state? is an oil seal leaking? you should have asked what supermarket fuel has to do with a dirty turbo.

no we dont run until its almost empty,[mainly because we rely on the car so much that once it reaches just under a quarter of a tank we fill up again] the guy said that there was no reason that he could see as to why the turbo's were that dirty at all, when we were talking to him, the only thing he could say was not to use supermarket fuel anymore

as an example, we once did a run to yorkshire, filling the tank up at tesco, put just under £50 worth in, on the way home again, we had to stop of and put more fuel in the tank as it was quite low [lower than we like to see]

this trip to see son graduate from harrogate afc, we filled up at a normal garage, stuck £45 quids worth in, [I cant compare as the prices have gone down to 99.9p a litre now my maths is crap!] but we went from north wales, [close to the island] up to tadcaster to stay in a travel lodge, then the next day to harrogate, then all the way home again, without having to fill the tank up anymore.

the other trip to yorkshire,[that i wrote above] where we filled up at tesco, we stopped of at kirk smeaton for the night, then drove to harrogate from there, it was at a service station on the way home that we had to fill up again.

i cant compare how much fuel we put in her, but i think the trip where we had to fill up again we were paying around the £1.25 to £1.30 something a litre from tesco.

we try to keep to an average speed, and keep an eye on the revs, so as to conserve fuel consumption as best we can, and there were no hold ups at all on either of these trips, [we have done quite a few trips to harrogate where the motorway was blocked, and the fuel went down like crazy, so i dont count these at all, just go on normal driving conditions and no hold ups]

so I dont know, we just now put it down to the grading of the fuel at supermarkets, as there seems to be no other reason for this at all. And a promise that we wont touch supermarket fuel anymore, [sad to see my clubcard points go down though!;) ] maybe its just us, but as i said, talking to people quite a few are saying they do not use supermarkets fuel anymore.

gardner1

denise123 wrote: »

Then someone told us that the branded garages go in first to get their stocks, they grade it somehow, not sure how, but the fuel that is of a lower grading than they would like is left behind for the supermarkets to pick up, which is why supermarkets have it a little lower in price, I am not sure if this is true, I do not understand it as it goes into car bits and then becomes a little complicated to understand, but the garage guy said to us to keep the car in tip top condition, and to keep her running smoothly without any hitches, to make sure we only use garages such as shell, texeco and total, and not to use supermarket fuel anymore, no matter how much cheaper the fuel is. He stressed again that the fuel they sell can be compared to the left over’s that someone else does not want







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