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Just interested to kno if there are any choosy people out there who swear by certain fuel,

or would just go to the nearest station available to feed their cars...

me personally, i try to use SHELL fuel as much as possible, BP is more expensive and doesnt feel as sharp...

have had to use places like TESCO etc in an emergency...

apparently peugeot endorse ESSO and TOTAL, but i tend to avoid them!

To be honest I use whichever is cheapest.
Morrisson's usually but Esso are beating them at the moment with 105,9/l

I've been using Shell only for some time now, I was using Shell V Power Diesel which is very good but an extra 6p a litre so I went back on normal.

BP every time - the best fuel for the 2.0 turbo by a clear 8% over the second best, although the sh*t they sell in mainland Europe is as poor as texaco stuff here. Supermarket stuff may be around 10% cheaper, but it's a real false economy. I think the turbo was about 30% worse off on Asda.

I've only put BP in the V6, but when I get the trip computer in I'll run the tank dry and start experimenting again

This is interesting (if a bit long) about the different brands: http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/ ... tm?t=41008 all petrol starts off the same from the same refinery and then each brand is 'tweaked' with additives. The day to day unleaded's appear to cross over between retailers so getting Tesco petrol out of Esso pumps and vise versa is common, apparently.

I almost always used Shell, car liked the fuel and generally one of the cheaper places where i used to live.

Don't use any at the minute as i sold the car and haven't replaced it yet

Where it's cheapest, naturally.

I've been using shell for quite a while now ,the normal derv and a odd tank
of v power find the car runs well on it. Car smokes a bit under hard acceleration
but realised a while ago it did it less with shell in than the supermarket brands

Welton wrote:This is interesting (if a bit long) about the different brands: http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/ ... tm?t=41008 all petrol starts off the same from the same refinery and then each brand is 'tweaked' with additives. The day to day unleaded's appear to cross over between retailers so getting Tesco petrol out of Esso pumps and vise versa is common, apparently.

It must be true because some guy on the internet said so

That does read like a forum full of idiots and 14 year olds pretending to be Big Men. All having their own set views and not conceding an inch. OMG all fuel is the same because *I* sold a blue-chip oil company... OMG trip computers are all inaccurate and all fuel is really the same because some bloke in the pub once told me... pfffft. So inaccurate I'd get almost precisely the same MPG on my 60mile trips to work for months on end until I tried other brands then the t/c and the petrol pumps all told me I was getting less miles brim-to-brim... idiots...

steve_earwig wrote:Where it's cheapest, naturally.

Cheapest in what way though? Asda fuel may be the cheapest to buy per litre over here by a fair margin, but seeing as you'll do considerably less miles for your money, you'd be crazy to use it

M, I wasn't trying to say that forum was right about fuels and there is some weird posting on there but Asda doesn't have it's own refinery so the fuel must come from a common source. HOWEVER the BP's of this world must treat their petrol with enhancers or whatever which would make it more suitable/better for engines. I suppose the cheapest petrol is just... petrol.

I don't use Supermarket fuel unless I'm stuck with no choice.

mjb wrote:Cheapest in what way though? Asda fuel may be the cheapest to buy per litre over here by a fair margin, but seeing as you'll do considerably less miles for your money, you'd be crazy to use it

Cheapest in a money way, everything else is a complete unknown. Supermarkets don't sell fuel here, or even aspirins. The benzinska stanica in town here is one of the cheapest, they don't fiddle with their meters, my car's never run rough after filling up there and in the summer sexy teenage girls clean your windscreen for you, what more do you want?

Thankfully, I don't have to care any more as I have a nice shiny new fuel card from my new company, so naturally will fill up at the best of them (Shell I guess).

Still have to pay 20% on tax but that's peanuts compared to what I paid before

I have tried " premium" fuels & the only noticeable difference is in the wallet, so I get it where it's cheapest.
Tesco is favourite at the moment with a 5p/litre discount after £50 on shopping, so we take 2 trolleys & get a voucher each, saves about £3 on a tank full. I always get between 800 & 1000 miles to a full tank (47-57mpg) & the cars run fine.

steve_earwig wrote:in the summer sexy teenage girls clean your windscreen for you, what more do you want?

A plane ticket?

Captain Jack wrote:Thankfully, I don't have to care any more as I have a nice shiny new fuel card from my new company, so naturally will fill up at the best of them (Shell I guess).

Still have to pay 20% on tax but that's peanuts compared to what I paid before

Quick Cap'n - go out and get a 6 litre Monaro