Best place to fill up my car?

Joe_Horner

Rubidium wrote: »

Yes I don't believe it for one minute myself either but this thread will run and run as usual with the predictable crap from the brand snobs!

:rotfl:

Well, for what it's worth, i can say categorically that in 32 years and close to a million miles (that's over 33000 gallons @ 30mpg) the ONLY "bad" fuel I've ever had was from an Esso station just outside Gloucester that left me coughing and spluttering down the M5 to Michaels Wood services where I had to strip the carb to get the water out. On the basis of that I'll never use branded fuel again!

Unless I happen to be near a brand station when I need to fill up, of course :beer:

WobblyDog

I nearly always buy petrol at supermarkets, because they have pay-at-pump facilties. I hate queueing to pay for petrol.

AdrianC

WobblyDog wrote: »

I nearly always buy petrol at supermarkets, because they have pay-at-pump facilties. I hate queueing to pay for petrol.

I hate pay-at-pump. Less so currently, as I don't have anything with a tank big enough to cause a problem, but I've previously had vehicles with tanks larger than the per-fill limit. THAT's a pita.

facade

I always fill up on a "petrol only" pump.
Then I don't have to paddle through lakes of spilled diesel which smells forever if you tread it into the car.

Strider590

If you have a new car, it's probably on finance and won't be your problem in 3 years time, so who cares what fuel you use?
If you buy used, the above will have been true with the last owner regardless.

In short just fill up cheapest, but closest to your normal route.

King_Nothing

I only use Shell V-Power in my car, but I have too, before it was modified I used pretty much anything that was nearest.

worried_jim

King_Nothing wrote: »

I only use Shell V-Power in my car, but I have too, before it was modified I used pretty much anything that was nearest.

You can't just say that! We want to know what car, what modification, what's the difference? Details man, details.

bigjl

Strider590 wrote: »

If you have a new car, it's probably on finance and won't be your problem in 3 years time, so who cares what fuel you use?
If you buy used, the above will have been true with the last owner regardless.

In short just fill up cheapest, but closest to your normal route.

You can't make a massive generalisation like that.

I only ran my Jag on decent Diesel unless I had no option and had to do a splash and dash.

My WRX was only ever run on Super Unleaded.

I just can't see the point in using a fuel with an inferior additive package on a decent car.

Whenever I fuel up the Picanto it gets Shell/Esso/BP

The savings near me are pathetic if there is actually any saving

£1.089 per litre of Unleaded at my local Tesco this morning, round the corner Shell was £1.099 and BP was £1.089.

Costco had Unleaded at £1.029 on Sunday so that represents a saving, don't know where they get their fuel from or what the Additive package is.

But the saving of 6p per litre could be used to purchase a decent additive. Costco do Redex at something like £12 for two 500ml bottles.

almillar

What's the car, JLawson118? I'd definitely stick to diesel in a diesel car, or petrol in a petrol car. Does your car manual specify what fuel to use beyond that?

DragonQ

Jlawson118 wrote: »

Best place to fill up my car?

Petrol stations work well, I find.