Supermarkets vie to cut fuel prices

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Motorists will pay less for fuel at many supermarket forecourts as a string of stores have cut petrol and diesel costs...

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bod1467

I thought it had been a while since we'd had a Supermarkets Cut Fuel Prices spam post.

bigjl

I drove through Dagenham last week and the petrol was cheaper at a BO Station than at the local supermarket, by 2p a litre.

I will stick to a know quality fuel with a decent additive package thanks.

[Deleted User]

The amount of times I hear about supermarkets cutting fuel I would have thought it would be down to 50p by now.

One-Eye

To illustrate the massive saving this is, for the average motorist, a 1p change in fuel prices makes a difference of £9.50 per year.

bigjl

One-Eye wrote: »

To illustrate the massive saving this is, for the average motorist, a 1p change in fuel prices makes a difference of £9.50 per year.

Or twice that if you buy at the BP I passed in Dagenham.

Without the need to have Supermarket fuel anywhere near your vehicle

Very MSE.

But the price alone isn't the only consideration

Quality needs to be considered.

You could run your brand new BMW/Audi/Mercedes on the cheapest 15w40 Mineral oil from the local factors and leave it in a bit longer than normal to get full value for money.

Saving those few pounds won't sort out the issues caused by saving those small number of pounds on the oil in the first place.

I can talk from a bit of experience with supermarket diesel.

My wife always used Tesco diesel in her Clio DCi, when bought it didn't chuck out any smoke and the injectors where whisper quiet.

A couple of years later they were far from quiet and it would produce a bit more soot than it ever did when bought and for the first few years.

I personally reckon the injectors would have been much quieter if she had run it on Shell/BP/Esso.

Robisere

I wrote in another similar topic some time ago about Supermarket fuel in my C-Max 2.0 TDci. I calculated MPG by using alternate fill ups of Morrisons basic diesel and Shell V-Power. I kept an eye on speeds and made sure that I drove at the same speeds and distances for both fuels. Then I switched to purely Shell V-power. My MPG increased by one or two decimal points per week until I am now getting between 45 and 48 mpg. The engine runs with more smoothness and the acceleration is faster.

If I was driving a commercial vehicle that was not owned by me, I would use supermarket diesel. However, as this is my own car, I want the best fuel for smooth running and good acceleration, so I use V-Power.

As bigjl says,
"...price alone isn't the only consideration. Quality needs to be considered."

20aday

There's a Texaco garage in Heanor that's 2p per litre cheaper than the supermarket literally a two minute drive away down the road.

bigjl

Robisere wrote: »

I wrote in another similar topic some time ago about Supermarket fuel in my C-Max 2.0 TDci. I calculated MPG by using alternate fill ups of Morrisons basic diesel and Shell V-Power. I kept an eye on speeds and made sure that I drove at the same speeds and distances for both fuels. Then I switched to purely Shell V-power. My MPG increased by one or two decimal points per week until I am now getting between 45 and 48 mpg. The engine runs with more smoothness and the acceleration is faster.

If I was driving a commercial vehicle that was not owned by me, I would use supermarket diesel. However, as this is my own car, I want the best fuel for smooth running and good acceleration, so I use V-Power.

As bigjl says,
"...price alone isn't the only consideration. Quality needs to be considered."

I noted the same mpg difference between supermarket and BP/Esso/Shell diesel.

The car felt sluggish, smoked more aswell. That was a mk3 TDCi 130.

The difference was not so obvious on the V50 2.0D that replaced it.

DragonQ

So many anecdotes about cars "feeling" different when it is a well known fact that confirmation bias and placebo hugely distort our subjective views. Where are the data?

takman

bigjl wrote: »

Or twice that if you buy at the BP I passed in Dagenham.

Without the need to have Supermarket fuel anywhere near your vehicle

Very MSE.

But the price alone isn't the only consideration

Quality needs to be considered.

You could run your brand new BMW/Audi/Mercedes on the cheapest 15w40 Mineral oil from the local factors and leave it in a bit longer than normal to get full value for money.

Saving those few pounds won't sort out the issues caused by saving those small number of pounds on the oil in the first place.

I can talk from a bit of experience with supermarket diesel.

My wife always used Tesco diesel in her Clio DCi, when bought it didn't chuck out any smoke and the injectors where whisper quiet.

A couple of years later they were far from quiet and it would produce a bit more soot than it ever did when bought and for the first few years.

I personally reckon the injectors would have been much quieter if she had run it on Shell/BP/Esso.

That must be the least scientific argument I have ever seen against supermarket fuel lmao. You didn't even try the branded fuel you just "reckon" it would have been better! :rotfl:

The only difference between fuel is a couple of teaspoons worth of additives per tank. It may make a very small difference but all this talk of engines sounding better is terrible proof.

Actually the only evidence I have seen is that petrol with a higher RON rating will produce better performance in cars that are mapped to take advantage of it. So when you consider the highest RON rated fuel is Tesco Momentum then in this case supermarket fuel is the best.