Fuel

danny91

Tarambor wrote: »

So there was a problem which could have happened to any petrol station branded or supermarket. That is hardly the same as supermarket fuel causing problems because you've been using it for years is it?

yes. But it didn't happen to any of the others. it happened to a Tesco station. And its happened more than once at tescos. But I'm yet to hear of anything happening at a 'branded' petrol station.
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Koolkuts1

i would put in normal unless you have a sporty car like a subaru or better that states it needs at least 98 octane.

Joe_Horner

danny91 wrote: »

But I'm yet to hear of anything happening at a 'branded' petrol station.

I've had contaminated fuel twice over the past 30 odd years.

The first was on a trip from Anglesey to Devon where I filled a local station around Gloucester and got almost as much water as petrol. Luckily, it was in a carburetted Daf 33, so stopping at the next services, draining the water from the bottom of the tank (just under half a gallon of the stuff!), and cleaning out the float bowl sorted it cheaply. Could have been expensive in a more modern car though!

The second was locally up here, with a £20 top-up of diesel which was followed by really bad stalling problems until I refilled and burnt through it. Again, it was water.

First time was an Esso station, second was Texaco. Didn't go running to the papers though.

derekthedog

Our old 207 1.4 petrol is on 199,500 miles without any engine problems, probably 80% cheap supermarket fuel. Does seem to return better mpg when on more premium fuel though.

Scrapit

Go costco, cheaper than supermarkets.

unforeseen

Always use Morrisons in mine. Mainly because it's the cheapest fuel AND it's on my route to work so I don't have to go out of my way to fill up each week.

sevenhills

Hermione_Granger wrote: »

According to my neighbour (a delivery driver for Sainsbury) these additives are added to the tankers during the filling of them or they can be added when the fuel is being delivered into the bulk storage tanks at the fuel stations so all it would take is for a human error to occur for too much of an additive to be used or for the wrong type of additive to be put in a certain type of fuel.

Fuel from petrol stations operated by supermarket chains Tesco and Morrisons was at the heart of the problem, though other retailers were also affected.


https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/motoring/tainted-fuel-contains-silicon