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Inactive

My village garage is cheaper than Tesco petrol, not that I would use Tesco petrol following their last horrendous !!!! up, that wrecked so many vehicles.

gaz_jones

Inactive wrote: »

My village garage is cheaper than Tesco petrol, not that I would use Tesco petrol following their last horrendous !!!! up, that wrecked so many vehicles.

Keep in mind though that because they had that happen to them they are less likly to have it again. They wont want a !!!! up like last time. Although fair play to them, if you still had the receipt proving you had bought it at tesco then they paid for repairs.

Personally I use tesco petrol for both my cars. My '89 Mini and my 2000 Peugeot 306. Never had a problem with either (touch wood). Perhaps if I had a very fast car I would use the V-power stuff but the amount of miles I do I wouldn't be able to afford V-Power.

hewhoisnotintheknow

Inactive wrote: »

My village garage is cheaper than Tesco petrol, not that I would use Tesco petrol following their last horrendous !!!! up, that wrecked so many vehicles.

the whole tesco thing was bad but not as bad as everyone made out, anyone who had a car problem AND had filled up at tesco was blaming that on the fuel if they had filled up recentley. I rememeber watching the local news and they interviewed a woman who was going to sue tesco because her exhaust had fallen off!

Inactive

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

the whole tesco thing was bad but not as bad as everyone made out, anyone who had a car problem AND had filled up at tesco was blaming that on the fuel if they had filled up recentley. I rememeber watching the local news and they interviewed a woman who was going to sue tesco because her exhaust had fallen off!

Maybe, but I still ain't putting the stuff in my car, especially as it costs more than my village garage.

DKLS

I am far from being an expert, but I know my car runs like a dog on Morrisons or Asda petrol, I normally put in Sainsburys super unleaded if I am paying or V power if work are paying.
Would be interesting to do a back to back trail on a rolling road to see how much power the engine loses, but I dont actually care that much.

Indout96

hewhoisnotintheknow wrote: »

the whole tesco thing was bad but not as bad as everyone made out, anyone who had a car problem AND had filled up at tesco was blaming that on the fuel if they had filled up recentley. I rememeber watching the local news and they interviewed a woman who was going to sue tesco because her exhaust had fallen off!

For all those going on about the Tesco !!!! up I have just 2 words
FORMULA SHELL :rotfl: :rotfl: THE BIGGEST !!!! UP OF ALL

Kingsd316

I use tescos Super Unleaded 99 Ron for my Focus ST

Wig

DKLS wrote: »

I am far from being an expert, but I know my car runs like a dog on Morrisons or Asda petrol, I normally put in Sainsburys super unleaded if I am paying or V power if work are paying.
Would be interesting to do a back to back trail on a rolling road to see how much power the engine loses, but I dont actually care that much.

I dunno know what "V-power" is, but from what you've said, perhaps your engine is tuned to 98 - 99 RON, hence, when you put 95 RON in it doesn't run so well.

taxiphil

Inactive wrote: »

My village garage is cheaper than Tesco petrol, not that I would use Tesco petrol following their last horrendous !!!! up, that wrecked so many vehicles.

gaz_jones wrote: »

Keep in mind though that because they had that happen to them they are less likly to have it again. They wont want a !!!! up like last time.

Tesco may have learned not to contaminate their petrol but according to today's news it seems they don't know how to measure it properly...

Supermarket group Tesco has been fined £18,000 after motorists at a south Wales service station were overcharged for fuel for nine months.

...customers received 4% less fuel than they paid for from 18 of the service station's 36 fuel nozzles....

...During this period more than 9.2m litres of fuel were sold

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/7974289.stm

It seems staggering (and highly suspicious, to say the least) that this could apparently go undetected by Tesco for such a long time and only came to light because of a routine trading standards check.

By my calculation it means the garage had to somehow overlook the small issue of 368,000 (over a third of a million) litres of fuel which it had charged for but not dispensed from its pumps. How could a surplus of that size possibly get overlooked in their own internal accounts trail? It doesn't make sense.

Wig

taxiphil wrote: »

By my calculation it means the garage had to somehow overlook the small issue of 368,000 (over a third of a million).

Depending on the accuracy of the reporting, it could mean that they had sold 184,000 litres which they did not dispense. 18/36 pumps. Still it's a lot, and if trading standards were sure of the figures the fine should have been £184,000 to account for the profit they made, plus a further £316,000 to make them think twice about not running regular calibration tests in the future. But after reading the news article, Tesco are trying to pay back the money taken in error. So perhaps the fine should have been something like £200,000 on the condition that they prove to the court they have tried to pay most of it back and what customers could not be traced has been given to charity.

I remember I queried them once, I think it was because I was pumping fuel for what seemed like seconds, and I turned around to see something like £20 had registered, I couldn't believe it, and turned my ignition key on and it was still on zero, I was fuming, and went to complain.

They phoned the store manager who came over, and he got out a brass "milk churn" thingy which was wide at the bottom and narrowed to a small 2 inch neck with a glass window and a gradiated scale on the glass window, saying 20 litres +/- 200ml (ish).

Sure enough when he pumped the pump into the churn, it filled in no time, (seconds) I was amazed. And when he slowed the flow rate as he neared 20 litres on the pump display the flow out the nozzle also slowed, and he stopped on 20 litres on the pump display, the amount in the churn was significantly over, maybe 100 - 200 ml

Actually what had happened, was that whilst I waited for him to come over and get this churn, I had tried a second time to check my fuel display, and this time, (either because I had removed the key and reinserted it, or maybe I started the car--whatever) the display showed my tank was about right with 20 litres. So I had apologised to him and said it was Ok now, my display is showing the fuel, so I must have recieved it, you don't have to do the check. He said once a complaint was recieved they had to go through with the test, I didn't mind because it was interesting to watch.

He then went over the the main filling pipes (where the delivery tanker connects to the tanks) unlocked one, unscrewed the cap, and poured it into the underground tank.