Supermarket fuel v the rest

takman

Robisere wrote: »

This subject crops up over and over and always degenerates into a few people having disagreements between themselves. It's boring. Just accept that people have prefences which are not necessarily based upon anything technical or scientific.

Nobody is forcing you to read the thread or forcing you to buy a certain type of fuel.

If your the type of person who pays extra for a specific type of branded fuel in some "religious" based belief that it's the "best" then these types of dicusions are not for you.

These kinds of discussions are for people who only want to pay extra for something because it has a quantifiable benefit which can be explained in a logical and/or scientific manner.

But as a general rule of thumb if your not buying the cheapest of something and you are unable to justify why your not then your wasting money.

trailingspouse

Things have moved on.

I filled his car up the other day - he was sat in the car, so I had to use the premium branded variety. £1.36 per litre!!!!! I told him how much it was and he was quite visibly shocked, but recovered enough to joke that 'he's worth it'.

I filled my own car up today - supermarket 'ordinary' variety. £1.17!!!!!

So, 19p per litre difference.

OHs car is filled up once a week, mine probably once a month, roughly 50 litres per fill. So, about 5 fills a month, or 250 litres.

Quick calculation - let's call it a 20p difference (no point in making it difficult) x 250. That's £50 A MONTH!!! Multiply by 12 and that's £600 A YEAR!!!

Oh yes, things are going to change in 2018 - I really don't think we're going to be doing £600-worth of damage by using supermarket fuel.

LudaMusser

I haven't got time to read seven pages of tosh. My opinion is that my car is a 2006 plate so regardless of whether supermarket fuel is of poor quality or not, if it is the damage will have been done many years ago by previous owners so therefore irrelevant

If I bought a new car then maybe I would think differently

trailingspouse

LudaMusser - and yet you had time to join in the tosh. Does that make you a tosher?

Personally, I've found it a very interesting discussion - it's good to know what others' opinions are and it can help to inform one's own. I now have information with which to have a sensible discussion with OH (as he's a petrol head, I'm normally happy to just agree with him on car-related matters).

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

JJ_Egan

Thats all they are Opinions .
Facts would be much better in determining the original question.

motorguy

trailingspouse wrote: »

Things have moved on.

I filled his car up the other day - he was sat in the car, so I had to use the premium branded variety. £1.36 per litre!!!!! I told him how much it was and he was quite visibly shocked, but recovered enough to joke that 'he's worth it'.

I filled my own car up today - supermarket 'ordinary' variety. £1.17!!!!!

So, 19p per litre difference.

OHs car is filled up once a week, mine probably once a month, roughly 50 litres per fill. So, about 5 fills a month, or 250 litres.

Quick calculation - let's call it a 20p difference (no point in making it difficult) x 250. That's £50 A MONTH!!! Multiply by 12 and that's £600 A YEAR!!!

Oh yes, things are going to change in 2018 - I really don't think we're going to be doing £600-worth of damage by using supermarket fuel.

If he wants the additives and detergents then add a Millers diesel additive - works out at less than 2p per litre. :beer:

motorguy

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Thats all they are Opinions .
Facts would be much better in determining the original question.

I think the fact that there are no independent reports available that prove the benefits of paying up to an extra 16p per litre for "premium brand" fuel speaks volumes.

Even BP and Shells own advertising for said products is suitably vague....

BeenThroughItAll

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Thats all they are Opinions .
Facts would be much better in determining the original question.

You'll find facts in post #7 and #25.

System

motorguy wrote: »

I think the fact that there are no independent reports available that prove the benefits of paying up to an extra 16p per litre for "premium brand" fuel speaks volumes.

I posted one from Milbrook Testing Labs. Whilst commissioned by Tesco it is independent.

Also this from Engineering Explained about a US independent study from AAA which showed either no advantage, so little it wasn't worth it or in the case of one vehicle it was actually a disadvantage in certain scenarios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxAQmj3P8xs

motorguy

Tarambor wrote: »

I posted one from Milbrook Testing Labs. Whilst commissioned by Tesco it is independent.

On this thread? What post number?

Tarambor wrote: »

Also this from Engineering Explained about a US independent study from AAA which showed either no advantage, so little it wasn't worth it or in the case of one vehicle it was actually a disadvantage in certain scenarios.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxAQmj3P8xs

Exactly as i said then - no independent report that proves spending the 16p or so extra is worthwhile.