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tesco fuel scam maybe?

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  • Gukophoto
    Gukophoto Posts: 27 Forumite
    I am inclined to agree with the original poster here. Why, because I live in Milton Keynes, my partner lives in Plymouth, its a 255mile journey I have to make every weekend.

    I fill up at my local tesco's station, and set off. I get there just outside the red. When I am there I head around to the local sainsbury's fill up, it costs the same, yet I get around an extra 120miles of fuel.

    I watch the fuel guage very closely,

    heading there I get around 65 - 70miles per quarter tank.
    heading home (noteablly uphill) and I get between90 -100 miles per quarter tank.

    Something is going a miss if I am getting around 120miles more per tank of fuel.

    Alex
  • BillTrac
    BillTrac Posts: 1,869 Forumite
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    thread revival or what?

    last post was in March 2008. That was before you joined. Does it really take that long to drive from MK to Plymouth?

    Are you married now or what.?...:rotfl:
  • Indout96
    Indout96 Posts: 2,391 Forumite
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    Never heard of any problems with Shell in recent years, now Tesco, erm just months ago.

    Depends how recent you want to go. Formula Shell did an enormous amount of damage to many many cars whilst Shell ran round for months denying any liability. This was all caused by the "Chamber Cleaner / Spark Aider" additive they were putting in petrol. The problem was world wide and cost them millions.
    Totally Debt Free & Mortgage Free Semi retired and happy
  • Eric_Pisch
    Eric_Pisch Posts: 8,720 Forumite
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    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?

    V power is only made at one refinery and lugged all over the country, which is why it costs a fortune :(
  • Evilm
    Evilm Posts: 1,950 Forumite
    Around my area (hampshire) we have noticed no difference between supermarket and other fuel suppliers at all.

    Hubby keeps a book of every full up and works out the mpg so we would see if there was something going wrong with one particular source.
  • sassy_one
    sassy_one Posts: 2,688 Forumite
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    *Yawns*

    OP, Take your findings to Trading Standards and see if they have interest for it, instead of posting your grudges against the firm on a website, what did they over charge you for something today?

    Watering down fuel, are you mad, don't even think Tesco would do that.

    No, Tesco doesn't have very good fuel, most of it is cr*p but posting an untrue claim isn't fair or helping anyone.

    They will refund you what they overcharged you if you go back :money:

    Please in future, don't claim something you have no proof, and my belief, a make up story!


    Every little helps.....................:rotfl:
  • I've driven 187,000 miles in my Mondeo, predominentely using Tesco fuel. The engine is still running well and I've never had any trouble with it.
  • wealdroam
    wealdroam Posts: 19,180 Forumite
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    IanInHerts wrote: »
    I've driven 187,000 miles in my Mondeo, predominentely using Tesco fuel. The engine is still running well and I've never had any trouble with it.
    Ian, couldn't you find an older thread to post on? ;)
  • bigjl
    bigjl Posts: 6,457 Forumite
    Mmmm, well the 1.8 mk2 Mondeo the wife was driving a the time of the fuel contamination was never the same afterwards, ran like a bag of bolts, and died soon after, not related to the fuel, but who knows it might have made a difference.

    Yes, Wealdroam, it is a strange thead for a newbie to bring back from the dead.
  • Dave_C_2
    Dave_C_2 Posts: 1,827 Forumite
    My take on this is quite simple, the petrol stations and supermarkets are there to make money - nothing more, nothing less.

    Tescos et al are a supermarket plus a petrol station as one entity and the cost of buying and maintaining the filling station is shared with the supermarket. The attached petrol stations have a very high turnover and they also entice car owners into the store, so it's to their advantage to keep the price as low as possible. At times they can even subsidise the petrol as a "loss-leader".

    Non-supermarket petrol stations are stand-alone, sometimes with a few groceries in the shop. Obviously it's to their advantage to keep the prices as high as possible.

    Now compare prices with say, a BP/Esso/Shell/whatever garage next to a supermarket and you get supermarket prices plus one or two pence per litre. A garage in a small town without a supermarket selling fuel will charge between 5 and 10 pence per litre more. It's the same fuel in the same tanker.

    Now if you were a national chain of non-supermarket petrol stations with reduced profit margins, wouldn't it be in your interest to start rumours about supermarket fuel being "watered down" and ruining car engines? Perhaps spam forums such as this one? Once started a good conspiracy theory lasts a long time!

    Wouldn't you think that trading standards an the national press would kick up a fuss if supermarket fuel was really that nasty?

    Dave
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