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shinydoc wrote: »

Oh well, Shell CITI card and Shell Drivers Club for me still then!

me ditto !

glyncon

Didn't realise there was a minimum spend, someone must have asked my useage but dont recall it happening and can find nothing about it in the documentation.
The Texaco stations are only those in their book
Their price for diesel is 97ppl his week

Motoraniac

shinydoc wrote: »

I wont bore you with the chemistry and molecular physics lesson and call me sceptical or what, but i just dont believe it :rolleyes:

I have just looked at their own article and it is not coherent! It says up to 30% of fuel is wasted and then says it can get a 50% increase, this does not make sense.

If, in your experience, you have genuinely got that increase from identical driving conditions, then I am very happy for you.

Thanks for sharing though...

Actually I believe the science is good because it has been exhaustively tested and proven to work. But the best proof of the pudding is in the eating and until I tried it I was not convinced it would work and perhaps you should do the same before passing your sceptical judgement as this product would make a real difference to global warming and to the cost of motoring. I worked out that it would save me around £6000 per year!

kiddy_guy

Newby poster, promoting product from "some guy"...If it looks fishy, smells fishy and sounds fishy, it's more than likely a fish.

If this product did what it said, why is some chap on ebay selling it rather than a major manufacturer? Why is he selling on ebay -surely he must be a multi billionaire by now?

Motoraniac

kiddy_guy wrote: »

Newby poster, promoting product from "some guy"...If it looks fishy, smells fishy and sounds fishy, it's more than likely a fish.

If this product did what it said, why is some chap on ebay selling it rather than a major manufacturer? Why is he selling on ebay -surely he must be a multi billionaire by now?

You see that's what happens when you try to share new information. The skeptics don't believe you and try to pull you to pieces without even looking further than the end of thier noses! But I've tried it and I am TELLING you that this stuff STR2020 really works. I'm saving around 25% fuel bills. Has anyone else out there tried STR2020? What was your experience?

Radsteral

wake up early and miss all the trafic that only if you can
o do some times but then again mi miss cudling to my wife in bed lol so never mind the petrol waste




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qrachma

Saw martin on GMTV today. So lets look at the old chestnuts he quoted:
tyres; keeping them inflated at the right pressure makes no difference.
weight; carrying extra weight, fuel or junk in the trunk, makes no difference to cruising and only a little when accelerating or going up hill.
Where do you get your figures Martin?
I agree with you on the following:
drag: get a car with a wedge shape at the back and front see www dot aerocivic dot com
braking; just throws away all your energy
air con; is just that, a con. The cost is horrendous!

tasty_snacks

i was driving south on the a10 yesterday (just past hoddeson- 5 miles north of london), and went past a station called 'apple green.' my eyes could've deceived me, but i'm sure the unleaded was 96.9 and diesel 101.9.....!!!!! :eek:

i thought at the moment that oil prices had collapsed again. can anybody in the area confirm this???

galaxysurfer

Hi!
I live in rural Scotland where the price of Diesel can range from anything like £1.01p per litre to £1.05p (which is comparable to nearly all rip-off Motorway service station prices...except,that is, for the REALLY BIG rip-off one's that charge £1.11P per litre!), so often you have to travel a long way to get the lowest price which is, of course, counterproductive and to be avoided whenever possible (unless you just happen to be going in that direction anyway).

However, I regularly have to travel to the North West of England (there and back same day) I often see the prices of the most of the stations, and nearly all of them are at 'Rural' prices until you start reaching the cities where the prices can fall by as much as £0.07p per litre (there's roughly 4.55 litres per gallon = so that would be a difference per gallon of around £0.315p per gallon, and most saloon cars hold around 11-13 gallons, so...you do the maths!).
Coming back (Northwards) there is just ONE Service Station (Shell) that has prices comparable to City prices, and this is situated just as the M6 ends (Carlisle) and where M74 starts. If you're travelling around that way, to see how cheap it is, just compare to the Service Station directly opposite on the southbound carriageway, (BP) and usually the price difference is about 4-5p per litre...sometimes even more!

PS One further note on Martin's main 'Fuel saving tips page', he recommends turning your engine off immediately you stop your car.

However, (& I think I'm right in saying this) there are some cases where this might not be advisable, and could cost you considerably MORE cash in the long run , to wit;
If you come to a complete stop and then switch off the engine after travelling over 50mph (say), as you might after coming off a motorway into a service station for instance, (and don't travel much further than a mile or two at lower speeds) and you drive a car with a 'Turbo' fitted (anything with a 'T' in the badge name, i.e. VW Golf TDi, usually means you've got one fitted), that means the Turbo isn't automatically being lubricated by the engine, and therefore could lead to wear on tear and ultimately the failure of your Turbo... and they're not cheap to replace :eek:.
Instead, if you just leave the engine running for a minute or two, this helps the turbo to slow down whilst still receiving lubrication.
It should probably say this in your car's instruction manual, (but who reads those, eh?)!
Just thought you should know!

Mark_Hewitt

That's mostly advice due from when you are thrashing the car at high speed or on a motorway and then *immediately* come to a stop.

For most practical purposes, coming to a safe stop away from the motorway will involve driving down slip roads, around roundabouts and negotiating car parks etc. So as long as you keep the revs down while you are doing this, and thus not running the turbo charger, then this is sufficient to allow the turbo to cool down.