Supermarket Vs Branded fuel

andygb

supermanjo wrote: »

But if you're doing 30,000 miles a year, then surely quality fuel would be a priority over cheap supermarket stuff? Why does nobody ever account for the future... V-Power is the cleanest, finest, engine friendly fuel on the market. When compared even with BP Ultimate, V-Power contains 50% less sulfur then Ultimate. God knows what the figures are for supermarket junk.

Over a prolonged period, cheap fuel will show it's effects. End of story.

Do you work for Shell, or maybe you are a marketing person's dream?
I do around 30K miles a year, and always use supermarket fuel, both here in the UK and on the continent.
I have never had a problem, and there has never been any fluctuation in economy.

Wh05apk

I've used mainly supermarket diesel for the las 15 years or so, I have tried odd tanks from elsewhere and for a while tried shell fuel save,and found it did actually improove econoy vry slightly, but after about 2 months, it seemed to run very poorly, almost cuttng out around the M25, topped up on cheap supermarket diesel again, and after a couple of tanks it was running fine, there seems to be quit a few simialr comments like this if you google it. I think I my have had a contaminated tankfull, or maybe, their additives had concentrated someone in my fuel system before being released?

I have not use it since - manly because of the 5/10/15p per ltr off deals at supermarkets since, but don't honestly believe there is any benefit in using branded fuels.

mbugle

To be honest I never notice the difference in MPG no matter what fuel I use. In my previous 1.5dci Clio I could get roughly 70 MPG (lot of motorway driving) and this was pretty consistent no matter what fuel I fill up with.

Ebe_Scrooge

From my experience, there's no practical difference. Maybe over the course of many thousands of miles you may notice a small increase in MPG, but not enough to warrant the extra cost.

It may be different if you're driving a Ferrari or a very high-powered turbo-charged car ( or potentially a very old classic that was supposed to run on leaded 4-star ???? ) , but for most ordinary cars it makes no difference.

Hammyman

supermanjo wrote: »

V-Power all the way for me, only costs 5p a litre more!

Has absolutely no benefit unless your car is either manually adjusted for it or automatically adjusts its own timing to take advantage of higher RON rated fuel.

Hammyman

supermanjo wrote: »

But if you're doing 30,000 miles a year, then surely quality fuel would be a priority over cheap supermarket stuff? Why does nobody ever account for the future... V-Power is the cleanest, finest, engine friendly fuel on the market. When compared even with BP Ultimate, V-Power contains 50% less sulfur then Ultimate. God knows what the figures are for supermarket junk.

Over a prolonged period, cheap fuel will show it's effects. End of story.

There speaks a man without a clue. I guess you have never been to an oil refinery. If you had, you'd see that despite the logo on the refinery, all makes of fuel companies tankers coming out of it. So at Stanlow, even though it is Shell you will see BP, Esso, Shell, Jet, Murco etc and some supermarket tankers coming out of there. Everyone in the North West of England gets their fuel from Stanlow no matter what garage they fill up at. Around East Yorks/Lincolnshire its from the Conoco (Jet) refinery at Immingham. Scotland is served by the BP refinery at Grangemouth so no matter who you buy your fuel from in Scotland, its come from BP.

All that happens is that some extra additives are put in and the additives that are put in are at a lower concentration than sticking a dose of Redex in your car. Nothing is taken out....

Yesterday I filled up my car at Sainsburys in Bolton. The fuel comes from the Shell refinery at Stanlow. So the base fuel was Shell but I paid 3p/l less than the Shell garage down the road from there. My car, with known injector issues, is on 161k on the original injectors - 70k of that done by me not caring a toss what brand of fuel I put in.

andygb

The thing is Hammyman, once these people start getting addicted to the more expensive fuel, they have to try justifying their advantages to others, regardless of how suspect those "advantages" may be.

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I second the V-Power. No idea if it gives me extra MPG as I don't check it. But I know it gives my car extra get up and go.

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lolarentt

Always used supermarket fuel going back as far as the days when you saw the BP tanker delivering to Sainsburys and Tesco forecourt. Driven around 30-40,000 mpa for some 25 years and never any problem. Have on occasions switched to something else for some promotion or other for a few months here and there on BP or Esso, made no difference to performance at all. The 'supermarket fuel is rubbish' feed comes from the same source that gave us 'Wetherspoons beer is cheap because it's old stock' and should be scorned in the same way!

cardinalbiggles

Should also add that additives are also added to Supermarket fuels.

I have bought 250k miles worth of diesel from Tescos and never had any problems.

As has been said before it all comes from the same refineries.

Companies want you to think their fuel is better, its called marketing!