Buying new car any good offers?

steve-L

CKhalvashi wrote: »

My car has only ever had supermarket fuel, and I've never had problems (it's got a large diesel engine, with a turbo, so I wouldn't use it unless I know it could cope with it)

Shell fuel on the other hand, the last few weeks......

CK

Unless you strip down the fuel filter after changes you wouldn't know if it's more gunked up or less than using say Shell and how that might affect other things.

Personally, I never did either and I also have a large diesel and turbo.... however I think I might be getting less MPG if it is....

I do know quite a few people at BP that only buy Shell :cool:
Quite how much of this is fact vs speculation on their behalf I dunno but I do know that the overall Shell Research Budget is many many many times that of BP and a LOT bigger than Tesco's pre-tax profits!

(In other words Shell spend a STAGGERING amount on Research - some of that must have ended up in fuel additives)

On the other hand Shell only offer you 5p/litre off for doing ?something? at Waitrose whereas Sainsbury's keep offering me 12p/litre off if I spend £60 and every so often Tesco's seem to offer me 40p/litre off if I buy a years coffee and washing powder in one go!

jaydeeuk1

Dacia Sandero

http://www.dacia.co.uk/vehicles/sandero/explore/

Better to get a 3 year loan at about £185 a month and own it outright.

Granted it will be worth 50p after 3 years

motorguy

jaydeeuk1 wrote: »

Dacia Sandero

http://www.dacia.co.uk/vehicles/sandero/explore/

Better to get a 3 year loan at about £185 a month and own it outright.

Granted it will be worth 50p after 3 years

I would say it will still be worth a couple of thousand after three years.

Cheap motoring.

Splott

Tilt wrote: »

Neither has mine... but then again, its not a Peugeot.

I find that quite a strange comment to make.

I drive a lot in France. The vast majority of cars are Citroen, Peugeot, Renault.

Most of the places you buy fuel in France are basically unattended parking lots with a few fuel pumps in the middle and a card machine or a supermarket. Nobody buys from the "typical British petrol station" except clueless British holidaymakers because fuel there is typically 10c / litre more than at supermarkets or these automated stations. And at these places you won't be buying Shell, Esso, BP. It'll be whatever cheap stuff Carrefour, Intermarche, E,Leclerc etc have got on a deal that week.

Peugeot telling their French customers not to buy supermarket petrol would see them not selling any anymore. And despite the French being renown for never ever servicing their cars, you don't see lots of Peugeots broken down at the side of the road in France so obviously it makes little difference whether you use supermarket fuel in them or not.

In short, the whole thing is hogwash and Peugeot UK using it as an excuse to get out of honouring its warranty due to the absolutely stupid view the British have about supermarket fuel being massively inferior.

Reggie256

Aside from receipts for the physical purchase of the fuel, I'm not certain how one would prove that the fuel in the tank was supermarket-brand or Shell/BP/Esso etc etc?