tesco fuel scam maybe?

Vomityspice

Sadly for your conspiracy theory you are completely wrong.

What you might not know is that fuel companies have reciprocal agreements between them to easy their own distribution network. What this actually mean is that they 'share' the fuel between them. This keeps costs down as they don't all have to build storage facilities and in addition, drive hundreds of miles to fill up......

and before everyone jumps in with 'Shell has this additives' etc, just visit your local refinery. Here in Northampton we have one (near the train station on the industrial estate) and you can see ALL the main petrol brands filling their tankers. This includes Shell, Bp, Esso, Tesco's and Morrisons. It may just means they hold two versions of fuel on site (i.e. designer stuff and bog standard).

Where do you think Tesco's buys it's fuel from?

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jonfev wrote: »

Tescos would be terminally stupid to 'water' down their fuel the scandal would cripple them. This is the sort of hoax story that gullible people like to believe because it's great to think a large company has been caught out.
A very stupid and potentially libellous post that damages the credibility of mechanics more than it does Tescos.

So how do you explain last years situation when Tesco stuffed so many customers cars with their duff fuel.?:rolleyes:

Altarf

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So how do you explain last years situation when Tesco stuffed so many customers cars with their duff fuel.?

If you remember the problem only related to fuel supplied in the south-east of England, as Tesco stores in the south-east are supplied by Harvest Energy from Vopak in Grays - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6409025.stm

If you also recall the problem also involved Asda and Morrisons as they were also supplied by Harvest Energy - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6414905.stm

The problem was traced to contamination with silicon, not the ethanol designed to be in the fuel - http://www.harvestenergy.co.uk/news_story.php?articleID=20

Tesco, Asda and Morrison stores in rest of the UK were supplied out of other depots, which is why it was only the south-east that had the problem. As Harvest Energy didn't supply any of the big oil companies, then their fuel stocks were not involved.

bigdic

Just thought I'd throw in my thoughts to the mix. A few years ago my uncle was running a reasonably old car and filled it up with Tesco fuel, a day later it conked out on him. Had to replace the spark plugs to get it going.

Never even occured to him it might be the petrol until the same thing happened a while later after he used Tesco for only the second time. A coincedance??? Perhaps.

About a year later I filled my own old car up at Tesco (why not? it's all the same petrol so my uncle must be nuts) and the next day it promptly conked out and low and behold I had to replace the spark plugs.

It could all just be bad luck but since then I've never used supermarket petrol.

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bigdic wrote: »

It could all just be bad luck but since then I've never used supermarket petrol.

Nor me, it ain't worth the risk.;)

Conor_3

bigdic wrote: »

Just thought I'd throw in my thoughts to the mix. A few years ago my uncle was running a reasonably old car and filled it up with Tesco fuel, a day later it conked out on him. Had to replace the spark plugs to get it going.

Never even occured to him it might be the petrol until the same thing happened a while later after he used Tesco for only the second time. A coincedance??? Perhaps.

About a year later I filled my own old car up at Tesco (why not? it's all the same petrol so my uncle must be nuts) and the next day it promptly conked out and low and behold I had to replace the spark plugs.

And guess what. If you'd both actually bothered servicing the cars properly, the spark plugs would have been changed long before they got to the point where they didn't work.

Dodgy petrol doesn't kill spark plugs.

Yours and the muppet post after just show how stupid and ignorant some people can be.

cassius19

i think this is the case at morrisons too, exacly the same happened to me

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Conor wrote: »

Yours and the muppet post after just show how stupid and ignorant some people can be.

Just exactly what is " muppet " about my post?

cajef

A couple of years ago due to all the hype about supermarket fuel I did an experiment where I ran my Honda for six months on Tesco/Asda petrol, and than six months on so called premium fuels i.e Shell/BP/Texaco, I kept a record of all my fuel and mileage.

When I worked out the average consumption for both suppliers of fuel I found hardly any difference, actually approximately 0.5 mpg. During both periods my car ran perfectly with no engine or mechanical problems.

I now use supermarket fuel all the time.

scbk

I always use supermarket (mainly morrisons) diesel, unless I'm really stuck, and never had a problem with it. Have driven about 50k since passing my test 18mth ago